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Taitts

Barbados | St James

Estate Details

Associated People (3)

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
1753 [EA] - 1815 [LA] → Owner
Sir Philip Gibbes Bart.
1817 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
Forster Clarke
1826 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Sir Samuel Osborne Gibbes 2nd Bart.

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 4311 (Taitts)
£3,474 2S 6D

Notes

The first owners appears to have been the Taitt family in 1721. Under the will of Samuel Osborne in 1736, the plantation bought from Thomas & Robert Taitt and acquired by Samuel Osborne's son, James Osborne. The adjoining plantation, Springhead [q.v.] also acquired by James Osborne. From c.1725-1846, Taitts & Springhead under the same ownership. In 1753 Agnes, daughter of James Osborne, married Sir Philip Gibbes, Bt.

See also notes on the Springhead plantation.

Sources

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

Estate Information (8)

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1778
[Size] 173  
 

By 1778 (and possibly from 1753), the plantation was owned by Sir Philip Gibbes, Bt.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1815
 

Under the Will of 1815 of Sir Philip Gibbes, Bt., Taitt’s was bequeathed to his grandson, Samuel Osborne Gibbes.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 145(Tot) 73(F) 72(M)  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of Sir Philip Gibbes, Bt., deceased. Note that this return filed in St Peter even though Taitt's was in (the NE part of) St James.

 
T71/522 448-52
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 144(Tot)  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of Sir Philip Gibbes, deceased. 140 enslaved.

 
T71/531 273-4
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 146(Tot)  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of Sir Samuel Osborne Gibbes 2nd Bart. Previously 144 enslaved.

 
T71/538 149-50
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 146(Tot)  
[Name] Taitts  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of Sir Samuel Osborne Gibbes 2nd Bart.

 
T71/542 141-2
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 154(Tot)  
 

Return of Sir Samuel Osborne Gibbes 2nd Bart., his own property.

 
T71/551 146
1913
[Name] Taits  
[Size] 312  
 

Listed in St James, property of Skinner.

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