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Barbados | Christ Church

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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
- 1772 [LA] → Owner
Francis Ford of Lears

Bequeathed under his will of 1772 proved 1773.

1773 [EA] - 1801 [LA] → Owner
Sir Francis Ford 1st Bart.
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Sir Francis Ford 2nd Bart.
1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
Forster Clarke
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney
James E. Crichlow

Note that it is possible that the James Crichlow who was Attorney to Sir Francis Ford was different from this one. In the 1832 Slave Register (TNA, T71/549, pp. 73-4) Crichlow is simply given as James Crichlow (without the middle E.) This was also the case in the 1829 Register (TNA, T71/544, p. 86).

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 3258 (Ridge)
£4,588 16S 0D

Estate Information (6)

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1758
[Number of enslaved people] 118(Tot) 61(F) 57(M)  
 

Figures from a list of whites and blacks in Christ Church, c.1758. The exact date of the list is not given; but internal evidence places it in or soon after 1758. The figures were given as 3 whites, and blacks as: men: 32; women: 33; boys: 25; girls: 28. [It is not clear why only 3 whites were given nor if the figure for blacks was comprehensive.]

 
Barbados Department of Archives. RB9/3/4
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 192(Tot) 94(F) 98(M)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of Sir Francis Ford Bt.

 
T71/521 111-15
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 198(Tot)  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of Sir Francis Ford. Previously 188 enslaved.

 
T71/529 698
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 206(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of Sir Francis Ford. Previously 198 enslaved.

 
T71/536 70-71
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 221(Tot)  
 

Return of James Crichlow, Attorney, the property of Sir Francis Ford Bt. Note that no estate name was given in the Register: it is probable that this return refers to the Ridge estate.

 
T71/544 86
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 281(Tot)  
 

Return of James Crichlow, Attorney, the property of Sir Francis Ford Bt.

 
T71/549 73-4