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Buttalls

Barbados | St George

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Associated People (5)

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
Legatee
Ann[e] Wilhelmina Darling (née Dalzell)
- 1774 [EY] → Owner
Grant Ellcock the elder
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Owner
William Harding I
1826 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Mary Elizabeth Dalzell (née Harding)
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
William Harding II

Harding's capacity not listed in 1826 but in 1829, Attorney; capacity not given again in 1832.

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 3673 (Buttalls)
£3,825 12S 5D

Estate Information (5)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 145(Tot) 80(F) 65(M)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of William Harding, his own property. This is probably the Buttall's plantation.

 
T71/520 723-27
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 149(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of William Harding, capacity not specified, the property of Mary Elizabeth Dalzell, 'who is absent from the Island'.
No previous return. However, 133 enslaved were by deed of William Harding, 16 were bequeathed by Allen Dalzell and there were 5 births and 5 deaths, hence net number of enslaved = 149.

See also return of William Harding for 1826 (T71/535, pp. 309-13) which shows that 133 enslaved gifted to Mary Elizabeth Dalzell.

 
T71/535 291-4
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 151(Tot)  
 

Return of William Harding (Attorney), the property of Mary Elizabeth Dalzell. Return of William Harding, capacity not specified, the property of Mary Elizabeth Dalzell.

 
T71/543 27
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 173(Tot)  
 

Return of William Harding, Attorney, the property of Mary Elizabeth Dalzell.

 
T71/550 27-8
1913
[Name] Buttals  
[Size] 209  
 

Listed in St George, property of Boxill.

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