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Three Houses

Barbados | St Philip

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
- 1800 [EY] → Owner
John Brathwaite Esq.

He had possibly been the owner since 1778

1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Hon. Miles Brathwaite
1832 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Other
Irenaeus Moe Brathwaite

Registered enslaved for Miles Brathwaite, an invalid.

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 2771 (Three Houses)
£5,623 16S 10D

Notes

The Three Houses plantation had been established by 1640 and in 1685 Edward Skeete of St. Philip sold it to John Brathwaite of St. Philip for £728, and then remained in the hands of the Brathwaite family until c. 1880.

Sources

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

Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 233(Tot) 124(F) 109(M)  
 

Return of Miles Brathwaite, his own property.

 
T71/521 290-96
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 235(Tot)  
 

Return of Miles Brathwaite, his own property. Previously 229 enslaved.

 
T71/530 9-11
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 244(Tot)  
 

Return of Miles Brathwaite, his own property. Previously 235 enslaved.

 
T71/536 200-201
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 255(Tot)  
 

Return of Miles Brathwaite, his own property.

 
T71/544 206-7
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 266(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Irenaeus Moe Brathwaite (capacity unknown), the property of Miles Brathwaite, an invalid.

 
T71/549 211-12
1913
[Name] Three Houses  
[Size] 444  
 

Listed in St Philip, property of Browne et al.

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