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Congo Road

Barbados | St Philip

Estate Details

Associated People (1)

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] - 1832 [LA] → Owner
Henry Alleyne Holder

It's assumed that Henry A. Holder, who filed the return in the 1832 Barbados Slave Register, is the same as Henry Alleyne Holder. But see also notes on the compensation award which refers to Elizabeth Mary Weeks Holder as one of the legatees of John Alleyne Holder.

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 3048 (Congo Road)
£3,594 10S 9D

Notes

According to Kathleen Mary Butler, the Holder family owned the Congo Estate only until 1832. For the Holder family see note under John Alleyne Holder.

Sources

Kathleen Mary Butler, The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados 1823-1843 (Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 1995), p. 84,

Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 158(Tot) 88(F) 70(M)  
 

Return of Henry A. Holder, his own property.

 
T71/521 440-44
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 152(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Henry Alleyne Holder, his own property. Previously 149 enslaved.

 
T71/530 110-11
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 162(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Henry Alleyne Holder, his own property. Previously 152 enslaved.

 
T71/536 270
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 165(Tot)  
 

Return of Henry Alleyne Holder, his own property.

 
T71/544 298
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 168(Tot)  
 

Return of Henry Alleyne Holder, his own property.

 
T71/549 281
1913
[Name] Congo Road  
[Size] 281  
 

Listed in St Philip, property of Ward.

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