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Associated People (7)

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
- 1784 [LA] → Owner
Rev. Thomas Barnard

The estate [and the enslaved people attached to it] known to have been owned by the Rev. Thomas Barnard at his death by virtue of his marriage to Mary Gray has been tentatively identified as Oxford in St Peter.

- 1816 [LA] → Owner
James Bovell
- 1823 [LA] → Other
Alfred Hothersal Bishop
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Executor
John Bovell
1823 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
William Bovell
1823 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
John Bovell
1823 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Joint owner
Howard Bovell

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 5178 (Oxford)
£2,122 10S 10D

Notes

Settled by the Gray family between 1674 and 1680: The Rev. Matthew Gray owned 115 acres in St Peter in 1680. Under a marriage settlement of 1733 between Mary Blower, daughter of Francis Blower and John Gray, son of Matthew Gray, Gray's Plantation was 170 acres in St Peter and St Lucy. By 1785 the owner of 148 acres in St Peter and St Lucy, had been the Rev Thomas Barnard 'in right of his wife', Mary Barnard née Gray.

Sources

Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.

Estate Information (7)

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1816
 

According to Hughes-Queree, James Bovell was the owner in 1816 [the year of his death].

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 96(Tot) 54(F) 42(M)  
 

Return of John Bovell, Executor, the property of the late James Bovell.

 
T71/522 379-82
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 88(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of John Bovell of slaves, the joint property of Howard Bovell, William Bovell & John Bovell. No previous return. Of the enslaved: 77 were purchased in Chancery, late the property of Alfred H. Bishop. Other changes included 5 purchases from others and 6 births. See also the return of Alfred Hothersal Bishop, his own property, which shows the sales to the Bovells. T71/531, pp. 334-36

 
T71/531 328-31
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 88(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of William Bovell, the joint property of himself, Howard Bovell and John Bovell.

 
T71/538 212
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 90(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of John Bovell, the joint property of himself, Howard Bovell and William Bovell.

 
T71/542 220
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 86(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of John Bovell of slaves 'the joint property of the late Howard Bovell [decd?] [da.?], of William Bovell & of Himself'.

 
T71/551 202
1913
[Name] Oxford  
[Size] 223  
 

Listed in St Peter, property of Gill.

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