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Checker Hall

Barbados | St Lucy

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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
Captain Thomas Rowe
1826 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Executor
Henry Thornhill
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Previous owner
Captain Thomas Rowe
1829 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Trustee
Henry Thornhill

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 4786 (Checker Hall)
£3,221 13S 7D

Estate Information (5)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 134(Tot) 74(F) 60(M)  
 

Return of Thomas Rowe, his own property.

 
T71/522 678-81
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 137(Tot)  
 

Return of Henry Thornhill, Executor, the property of the estate of Thomas Rowe, deceased. Previously 137 enslaved.

 
T71/537 285
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 137(Tot)  
 

Return of Henry Thornhill, Trustee, the property of the estate of Thomas Rowe, deceased.

 
T71/545 77
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 137(Tot)  
 

Many of the 137 had been purchased from Wlliam Oxley, Master in Chancery, late the property of Thomas Rowe. The return submitted in 1832 by Henry Thornhill as Trustee of Thomas Rowe shows sales of 138 enslaved to Joseph L. Briggs by William Oxley, Master in Chancery. Cf. Briggs, Barbados claim 4786, 1834. See TNA, T71/551, pp. 323-6.

 
T71/548 315-18
1913
[Name] Checker Hall  
[Size] 320  
 

Listed in St Lucy, property of Harris.

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