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Redland

Barbados | St George

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
1817 [EA] - → Owner
William Matson Barrow
1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Owner
Francis Cheesman
1838 [EA] - 1853 [LA] → Owner
Josiah Heath
1838 [EA] - → Other
Jane Ann Heath (née Cheesman)

One-fifth of the Redland plantation was left to Jane Ann Heath (née Cheeseman) on her father's death.

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 3901 (Redland)
£2,559 9S 7D

Notes

Between 1674 and 1739, Redlands was owned by the Toppin family. Hughes and Queree have no information on ownership between 1739 and Francis Cheeseman’s ownership.

Sources

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

Estate Information (5)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 88(Tot) 49(F) 39(M)  
[Name] Redland  
 

Return of William M. Barrow, his own property.

 
T71/520 655-57
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 81(Tot)  
 

Return of Francis Cheeseman, his own property. Previously 85 enslaved.

 
T71/531 24
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 82(Tot)  
 

Return of Francis Cheeseman, his own property. Previously 81 enslaved.

 
T71/535 286
1838
[Size] 154  
 

In his will, Francis Cheeseman bequeathed 1/5 of the Redland plantation to his daughter Jane Ann Heath, wife of Josiah Heath. Heath then bought the remainder of the plantation from other legatees of Francis Cheeseman, making the plantation 154 acres in St. George and St. Joseph. Heath then acquired further land from from John Eastmond Todd who sold to him to for £3500 The Mercy plantation (including sugar works)> Heath retained ownership until his death.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1913
[Name] Redland  
[Size] 202  
 

Listed in St George, property of Mahon.

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