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Blowers [previously Bully Gubbins or Gubbens]

Barbados | St Thomas

Estate Details

Associated People (6)

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
Owner
Francis Blower
- 1712 [EY] → Owner
George Lillington
- 1712 [EY] → Owner
George Lillington
1757 [SY] - 1802 [EY] → Owner
Thomas Daniel senior
1802 [SY] - 1854 [LA] → Owner
Thomas Daniel
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney
Forster Clarke

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 4355 (Blowers)
£4,180 19S 9D

Notes

Located just over the border in St James in the 1825 map.

A plantation - the 'Bully Gubbens' - had been established by 1649. By 1730 it was in the hands of Mary Cox of St. James, widow, who sold it to Francis Blower of St. Michael, merchant for £1,555. (Its extent was 55 acres.) This purchase was an addition to the plantation owned by Francis Blower, who 'clearly bought it between 1721 & 1730'.

Sources

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

Estate Information (7)

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1757
 

Sometime between Francis Blower's ownership and 1757 it was owned by William Bryant. He died around 1757 and bequeathed it to his grandson Jonathan Worrell who in turn sold it to Thomas Daniel (1730-1802) (the father of Thomas Daniel 1762-1854: q.v.).

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1774
 

Thomas Daniel (1730-1802) appears to have added to the plantation by buying a dwelling house and sugar works, and 46 acres, from Robert Burrowes of St. James for £2,800. Blowers appears to have been in the hands of the Daniel family thereafter.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 189(Tot) 88(F) 101(M)  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of Thomas Daniel.

 
T71/522 130-34
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 196(Tot)  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of Thomas Daniel. Previously 193 enslaved.

 
T71/531 150-51
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 201(Tot)  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of Thomas Daniel. Previously 196 enslaved.

 
T71/538 46
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 196(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of Thomas Daniel.

 
T71/542 19-20
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 198(Tot)  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of Thomas Daniel.

 
T71/551 19