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Bariffe Hall Plantation

Jamaica | St Mary

Estate Details

Associated People (4)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1790 [EA] - 1793 [LA] → Executor
Thomas Bourke

Thomas Bourke, inferred but not known to have been the same man as the owner of Fontabelle, was acting executor of George Barriffe and guardian of 'his' daughter Catherine Bourke, implying the latter had an interest in the estate but leaving ambiguity as to whether Catherine was the daughter of Thomas Bourke or [as Catherine Bourke Barriffe] the daughter of George Barriffe, who is known to have had a daughter Catherine baptised in St Mary in 1778.

1790 [EA] - 1793 [LA] → Previous owner
George Barriffe the elder
1810 [EA] - 1810 [LA] → Owner
Catherine Nagle later Stephens (née Barriffe?)
1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Owner
Lawrence Reade Stephens

Estate Information (11)

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1790
[Name] Bariffe Hall  
[Crop] Pimento  
 

Account filed by Philip White clerk to Thomas Bourke Esq acting executor of George Barriffe Esq deceased and guardian to his daughter Catherine Bourke infant.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 111
1791
[Name] Bariffe Hall  
[Crop] Pimento  
 

Account filed by Philip White clerk to Thomas Bourke Esq acting executor of George Barriffe Esq deceased and guardian to his daughter Catherine Bourke infant.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 111
1792
[Name] Bariffe Hall  
[Crop] Pimento  
 

Account filed by Philip White clerk to Thomas Bourke Esq acting executor of George Barriffe Esq deceased and guardian to his daughter Catherine Bourke infant.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 111
1793
[Name] Bariffe Hall  
[Crop] Pimento  
 

Account filed by Philip White clerk to Thomas Bourke Esq acting executor of George Barriffe Esq deceased and guardian to his daughter Catherine Bourke infant.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 111
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 86(Tot)  
[Name] Barriffe Hall  
[Stock] 46  
 

Nagle, Catherine, Barriffe Hall

 
Jamaica Almanac 1811 (givings in for 1810)
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 81(Tot) 41(F) 40(M)  
[Name] Bariffe Hall Plantation  
 

Lawrence Reade Stephens, owner.

 
T 71/33 343-345
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 86(Tot) 44(F) 42(M)  
[Name] Bariffe Hall Plantation  
 

Lawrence Reade Stephens, owner.

 
T 71/34 229-229v
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 85(Tot) 41(F) 44(M)  
[Name] Bariffe Hall Plantation  
 

Lawrence Reade Stephens, owner.

 
T 71/35 436-437
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 116(Tot) 63(F) 53(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Lawrence Reade Stephens, owner.

 
T 71/40 [unpaginated]
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 85(Tot) 45(F) 40(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Lawrence Reade Stephens, owner [decrease by deaths and by sale].

 
T 71/42 205
1862
[Name] Barriffe Hall  
[Size] 220  
 

In 1861, Edward Bean Underhill visited the Barriffe Hall settlement, and reported: 'The property of Barriffe Hall consisted originally of 220 acres. The cultivable portion of the land was purchased by the enfranchised peasantry, whose cottages lie scattered in the hollows ; the rest remains in the hands of Mr.Day. It produces pimento only.'

 
E.B. Underhill, The West Indies: their social and religious condition (1862) p. 344