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Baker's (Cooper's Hill, St Peter and St James)

Barbados | St Peter

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Associated People (12)

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
1777 [SY] - 1806 [EY] → Owner
Rev. John Gibbons
1722 [EA] - 1760 [LA] → Previous owner
Sir William Gibbons 1st Bart.
1760 [EA] - 1777 [LA] → Owner
Sir John Gibbons 2nd Bart.
1777 [EA] - → Other
Sir John Gay Alleyne 1st Bart.

Alleyne granted possession as power of attorney.

1806 [EA] - 1833 [LA] → Owner
Matthew Coulthurst
1833 [EA] - 1836 [LA] → Tenant-for-life
Conrade Coulthurst
1833 [EA] - → Joint owner
Catharine Constantia Coulthurst
1833 [EA] - → Joint owner
Maria Ann Coulthurst
1833 [EA] - → Joint owner
Elizabeth Sarah Coulthurst
1833 [EA] - → Joint owner
Mary Harriet Coulthurst
1833 [EA] - → Other
Georgiana Gibbons
1845 [EA] - → Other
Lt. Col. William Barton Gibbons

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 4950 (Bakers)
£3,072 3S 0D

Notes

Baker’s, which had been known as Cooper’s Hill, in St. Peter & St. James was originally developed by John and Henry Baker who, in 1675, owned 40 acres in the area. In 1715 Abel Alleyne of St. James sold to Henry Baker of St. Peter 54 acres for £900. In 1722 Henry Baker of St. Peter sold 111 acres to William Gibbons for £3,188 currency.

Estate Information (12)

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1760
 

Sir William Gibbons Bt. of St. Peter bequeathed all real estate to his son John Gibbons. Testators plantations named as Cooper’s Hill (Bakers) Mullen’s, Morgan Lewis and Haymans.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1777
 

Sir John Gibbons Bt. bequeathed Baker’s plantation to his 2nd son, John Gibbons, subject to annuity of £400 charged on plantation to testator’s eldest son, William Gibbons. 2 March 1772, a power of attorney was granted by Gibbons to Sir John Gay Alleyne to take possession of Bakers & Morgan Lewis.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1780
 

There is a return for Haymans, Bakers and Mullins grouped together in 1780 (and Sir John Gibbons Bart. Deceased). See that estate.

1806
[Size] 215  
 

The Rev. John Gibbons of Brasted, Kent, England, sold Bakers plantation (215 acres) to Matthew Coulthurst of Barbados, barrister-at-law, for £12,000 currency (£8,119 sterling).

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 127(Tot) 64(F) 63(M)  
 

Return of Matthew Coulthurst, his own property.

 
T71/522 427-30
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 126(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Matthew Coulthurst, his own property. Previously 136 enslaved.

 
T71/531 339-40
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 127(Tot)  
 

Return of Matthew Coulthurst, his own property. Previously 126. (There were 15 births, 18 deaths and 4 enslaved were 'removed from Fairfield'. [It is not clear which Fairfield this was.])

 
T71/538 222
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 141(Tot)  
[Name] Bakers  
 

Return of Matthew Coulthurst, his own property.

 
T71/542 228
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 151(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Matthew Coulthurst, his own property.

 
T71/551 211
1833
 

Under the Will of Matthew Coulthurst: he bequeathed the plantation to his brother Conrade Coulthurst as life tenant and on Conrade Coulthurst’s death in fee simple to Conrade Coulthurst’s daughters, nieces of testator, all resident in England. Catherine Constance Coulthurst, Maria Ann Coulthurst, Elizabeth Sarah Coulthurst & Mary Harriett Coulthurst £23,000 to be paid to niece Georgiana Gibbons.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1845
 

The nieces give power-of-attorney to William Barton Gibbons.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1851
[Size] 301  
 

Conveyance from Catherine Constance Gray (née Coulthurst), widow, & her 3 spinster sisters to William Barton Gibbons of Bakers plantation (301 acres): £6,500 & liability of £2,300 to Georgiana Gibbons.

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