Thomas Drake Barker

Resident slave-owner of Barbados who had married in Britain and was also an awardee in two claims in Jamaica, where he appears to have inherited one group of enslaved people from his wife and held another in his own right.

1. Will of Thomas Drake Barker of Saint Joseph Island of Barbados, West Indies proved 02/11/1838. In the will he said that the had settled his estate called Andrews on his daughters Margaret Walcot Harby and Rebecca Montague Hodgkinson (q.v.). He gave his household effects to a woman of colour, Harriet Ann Barker.

2. Possibly the Thomas Drake Barker who married Rebecca Barnard [sic] at St Augustine-the-Less, Bristol, 12/03/1801 and whose daughter Rachel Barnard Barker was baptised at the same place, 23/06/1802. His wife was possibly the daughter of Charles Bernard of Jamaica and Bristol (q.v.), who left an annuity of £140 p.a. to his daughter Rebecca in his will proved in 1797.

3. Described as an invalid in the 1832 Barbados Slave Register.

1. PROB 11/1902/245.

2. www.familysearch.org batch nos. M01900-5 and C01086-5. The underlying marriage record appears to show Rebecca Bernard, and one witness was certainly Elizabeth Bernard. This would tie her to the Bernard family of western Jamaica and Bristol.

3. TNA, T71/550, pp. 239-40.