Fortescues

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
1770 [EA] - 1787 [LA] → Owner

S. D. Smith, Slavery, Family and Gentry Capitalism p. 266 shows Henry Frere buying Fortescues sometime before 1770 and giving it up to the Lascelles in 1787.

1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Manager

See also Joseph Connell, awardee on Barbados 2577 and Barbados 2578.

1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
1823 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney

Associated Claims (2)

£3,291 11S 4D
£5,810 5S 6D

Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 384(Tot) 220(F) 164(M)  
 

Return of Joseph Connell, Manager, the property of the Right Hon. the Earl of Harewood. NB: the return of 1817 was for the Thicket & Fortescues estates together rather than, as in the compensation records, distinctly.

 
T71/521 430-39
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 401(Tot)  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of the Right Hon. the Earl of Harewood. NB: the return of 1823 was for the Thicket & Fortescues estates together rather than, as in the compensation records, distinctly. Previously 389 enslaved.

 
T71/530 98-100
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 410(Tot)  
[Name] Thicket and Fortescues  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of the Earl of Harewood. NB: the return of 1826 was for the Thicket & Fortescues estates together rather than, as in the compensation records, distinctly. Previously 401 enslaved.

 
T71/536 274-6
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 434(Tot)  
[Name] Thicket & Fortescues  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of the Earl of Harewood. NB: the return of 1829 was for the Thicket & Fortescues estates together rather than, as in the compensation records, distinctly.

 
T71/544 282-5
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 440(Tot)  
[Name] Thicket & Fortescues  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of the Earl of Harewood. NB: the return of 1832 was for the Thicket & Fortescues estates together rather than, as in the compensation records, distinctly.

 
T71/549 284-86
1913
[Name] Thicket and Fortescue  
[Size] 720  
 

Listed in St Philip, property of Earl of Harewood [sic].

 
Barbados 1913 list from the Hughes-Quere indexes transcribed at https://creolelinks.com/1913-barbados-plantation-owners-names.html.