Henry Barham senior

Father of Dr Henry Barham (c. 1695-1746).

1. Memorial inscription in the Cathedral, St Catherine, Jamaica: HENRY BARHAM, SEN: ESQR. DIED 1726 IN HIS 56th YEAR.

2. Henry Barham, sr of St Catherine, Esquire. Estate probated in Jamaica in 1726. Slave-ownership at probate: 4 of whom 2 were listed as male and 2 as female. 2 were listed as boys, girls or children. Total value of estate at probate: £1875.21 Jamaican currency of which £130 currency was the value of enslaved people. Estate valuation included £50 currency cash, £1414.51 currency debts and £0 currency plate.

1. James Henry Lawrence-Archer, Monumental Inscriptions of the British West Indies (1875), p. 29.

2. Trevor Burnard, Database of Jamaican inventories, 1674-1784.