In 1817 the estate was owned by William Murray and then by 1913 the owner was Denison et al. The Handbooks of Barbados were only published for a span of three years after which, whether due to the start of the war in Europe or other circumstances, they were discontinued. the cane was crushed three times, and sometimes more. Filter • Filter Close. Ward, A. F. (Aubrey Fitzosbert) and Evelyn, G. B. Greenidge, M. F. (lesased by Sealy, G. E.), Parris, R. B (Richard Bruce) & R. V. (Robert Valentine), Street, S. H .H. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! (Walter Audley) decâd, The executors of, B'dos Handbook 1913 - details applied to 1912, Barclay Family. G. L. (George Laurie), lessee, Ward, E. L. (Edmund Lisle) and J. W. (James William). Several techniques are used to maximise juice extraction, and hence recovery of the inherent sucrose. A visit to St. Nicholas satisfies those interested in the islandâs history, Jacobean ⦠… Evening. Any action you take using this data is strictly at your own risk. William Burton (BajanThings) is featured on. Afternoon. Before 1642 sugar was used in Barbados mainly as fuel, in the production of rum, and to feed livestock. In 1911, Police Magistrate E. Goulbourn Sinckler took it upon himself, at the inducement of his friend N. Darnell Davis, to compile a Barbados Handbook of ready facts and information. (Rupert Aubrey Augustus), Gill, F. F. C. (Frederick Fitzherbert Cornelius), Carrington, W. G., dec'd: Layne, F. A. trustee, Farmer, R. A. Many of the remaining properties are now protected by the Barbados Nation⦠A modern factory had at least 3 “stations”, i.e. By 1913 the owner was Birch, Collymore & Douglas, By 1913 the owner was The Society for Propagation of the Gospel Trustees, By 1913 the owner was Sunbury Sugar Est. Jl of Caribbean History 43 (2009) : 1-36. Note: This Ronald G. Hughes: Barbadian Sugar Plantations 1640 to 1846 listing is a sub-set of the Index of Plantations held by the Barbados Department of Archives (BDA) at Black Rock, St. James which was compiled by Ronnie Hughes and added to by Cecil Queree. Mr. James W. Hawkins, of the Belle Pln. For example put in: “Lion Castle” and you will see all rows that contain the text “Lion Castle” or put in a name such as: “Parris”. Up until the 1850s the British West Indies had a virtual monopoly in the importation of sugar into Great Britain. That began to change with the introduction of sugar beets as a crop and alternate source for sugar. Soon the Europeans were providing a subsidy or bounty to their local sugar beet producers driving down the price and the cost to residents of Britain and other markets. Over the course of ten years sugar imports from the West Indies dropped dramatically as it was replaced by the cheaper European sugar. Even though islands such as Barbados were British colonies Britain wouldnât impose counter tariffs to balance out the price and make cane sugar competitive. Rock Hall is a moving memorial to the system that dominated Barbadosâs economic and social life for almost 200 years and forced an estimated half-million Africans to ⦠Good for avoiding crowds.  This example not only shows the number and types of sugar-works but also their decline in number even in the period of 1912 to 1914. – Wikipedia. As recently as 1913 it was owned by the Skeete family. (1912 was almost identical to 1913 thus the reason the blue line doesn’t appear. However, several less well known areas are the setting for some highly prized and utterly unique investment opportunities. The entire island was quickly stripped of an internal frontier and transformed into endless fields of sugar plantation. Other imperial states observed the economic boom catalyzed by the plantation system and began colonizing the remaining American territories, hoping to capitalize on the lucrative cultivation an⦠Steadfast and Westmoreland, Spring Hall, Spring Garden and Mount Poyer. is the Receiver in Chancery for Belle View, Haynes, J. Contact us ⦠Whenever there is new content added to BajanThings you will receive an e-mail telling you of the update. As the Portuguese and Spanish maintained a strong colonial presence in the Caribbean, the Iberian Peninsula amassed tremendous wealth from the cultivation of this cash crop. The sugar plantations, stocked with thousands of easily replaceable enslaved Africans, spun super-profits. XLV, _Unlisted – the information was not in the original documents, _Consolidation is used when plantations have been combined into one operation, _No Works means the wind or steam works are no longer in operation or exist, _Sold in Lots – plantations which were subdivided on sold as small lots usually an acre or two, Barrow, Christine â Ownership and Control of Resources in Barbados: 1834 to Present by Author (1983), Goddard, Robert â âThe Fall of the Barbados Planter Class: An Interpretation of the 1980s Crisis in the Barbados Sugar Industry.â Agricultural History, vol. Mr. Pile was a Member of the Legislative Council, Vice President of the General Agricultural Society, a Magistrate, as well, as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Barbados Foundary Ltd.  In his free time he was able to establish Bulkeley Central Factory, one of the new modern factories built as the sugar industry moved to a centralized factory model and sit on the Board of the Barbados Railway. Rev. The information contained in these tables is provided on an “as is” basis by the authors. Plantations In the early years, smaller plantations ranging from ten to thirty acres dominated Barbados, but as sugar production took off, wealthy landowners began to purchase and consolidate smaller plantations, in order to maximize their yields. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. The Barbados Foundry had the ability to make and replace many parts of the mill itself, including making new rollers, and the brass bearings in which they rotated. A manuscript containing ledger and journal entries for the period 1818-1844 that document purchases and sales, as well as expenses for Colleton Plantation, St. John, Barbados. the Todd estates, at Old Asylum wall. XLV. St. Nicholas Abbey: Interesting View of Barbados Sugar Plantations of the Past - See 2,410 traveler reviews, 1,580 candid photos, and great deals for Saint Peter Parish, Barbados… Tobacco and cotton were once the main agricultural crops in Barbados before Dutch merchants introduced sugar cane to Barbadian planters in the mid 1600s. White gold as it was called, produced great wealth, fame and stature for the island and the original plantation owners, and was in many ways suited to the island. Please note there are nearly 1,500 rows of data in the table!  Although the family had settled in Barbados, with the arrival of James and Robert Ward, in 1635 it wasn’t until the 20th century that their descendants became landowners of any extent. In the preceding years many Barbadians had emigrated to the United States, Canada and the Panama Canal region. / Atwell, E. A. In Barbados, the imposing plantation house, Drax Hall, built around 1650, still stands – the oldest house in the western hemisphere – and sugar is still grown on the plantation. What does history tell us? The information contained in these tables is provided on an âas isâ basis by the authors. Once owned by the Balls family, by 1913 it passed to the Yearwoods before finally becoming the home of the Barbados Horticultural Society. In 1642, Barbados was introduced to sugar farming by the Dutch, and this became the new source of revenue and has since become a major part of Barbados' history. Standfast, Reids Bay (Weston), Sion Hill, Westmoreland, Skeete, E. B. dec'd - T. S. (Torrence Seymore) And E. B. Skeete, trustees to the estate of, Lawrance, Edward decâd, The trustees of, Manning, Miss Ellen and Sealy, Mrs. Alice, Foursquare, Grove, Brewsters, Sandy Hill & Thurban, Maloney, J. Plantation Homes as they stand in the early 21st century, Plantation houses photo credit: Mohammed Patel. The Pile family are recorded on Barralier’s, 1825 map of Barbados with Conrade Pile listed as owner of Brighton and Sedgwicks, St. George. The authors make no warranties about the completeness, reliability or accuracy of the information. Itâs not my intent to give a full overview of the content of the Barbados Handbooks or Almanacs but rather to focus on the Barbados Sugar-Works and Plantations listed within the books. In the afternoon, visit a fishing village in the south and experience the colonial history of Barbados with a visit to the 17th-century built Sunbury Plantation House. If you spot an error please contact me by either leaving a comment below or clicking on the BajanThings Contact Burts link and choosing from the Subject drop-down: “Barbados Maps/Plantations – Forward to: Jim Webster“. Please detail the error together with the “Record ID” so it can be found. Our sugar has always been grown, milled and loved in Barbados. When encouraging his friend to tackle the Handbook project, Darnell Davis must have been well aware of the hours of research, compilation and editing required with such a project, having himself done extensive research on Barbadian history for his 1887 publication, âThe Cavaliers and Roundheads of Barbados.â, By the time the 1912 Handbook was ready for publication, Sinckler had come to the realisation of projects scope when he wrote in the introduction: âTo the man or woman who undertakes to criticise the work, I shall only put one question, have you ever compiled a Handbook? Sugar Bay Barbados offers a unique location just twenty (20) minutes from the airport and two (2) minutes from Bridgetown, the capital of Barbados. To improve efficiency and maintain production costs, the Barbados industry has also moved from labor-intensive to full mechanization. Keep in mind that these steel monsters weigh several tons apiece, and a mill station consists of three. By sorting on the “Owner” or “Owner Surname” column we can learn which individuals or families, or companies were the biggest land owners by number of estates, or number of acres; whether the same owners were in a similar position in 1924 as they were in 1912. Who owned the largest estate and who owned the smallest, which had been consolidated and which had been sold off in lots? (Clement Augustus), Archer, Dr. L. T. F. (Leonard Thomas FitzSamuel), Walcott, E. A. and Wood, E. G. Harte (Edward), Gill, C. A. D. (Clement Arlington Dalrymple), Forte, N.A. Jl of Caribbean History 43 (2009) : 1-36. Unsorted columns show an up and down arrow. When I was inquiring about the Pile family, Barbados historian Karl Watson recalled a Bajan saying from his youth, “The Howells only spoke to the Sealy’s, the Sealy’s only spoke to the Pile’s and the Piles only spoke to God!”. In later years there were two foundries in Barbados, namely Central Foundry and  the Barbados Foundry on White Park Road (now the court buildings). If you have not, keep silence, – yea, even from good words.â. The Barbados taxpayer … In addition to the sugar-works data from the Barbados Handbooks 1912 â 14, data for 1924, published in BMHS (Barbados Museum & Historical Society) Journal Vol. (George Laurie) receiver, Watson, A. M. P. et al, trustees to estate of N. Weeks, dec'd, Farmer, R. A. Barbados was one of England's most popular colonies, with a rich economy based on sugar and slavery. Built in 1721 by John Hannis and by 1913 the owner was Pile. Plantations and Sugar works in Barbados 1912-14 & 1924 were transcribed by Frances Ward and Jim Webster from multiple sources that include: Extract from the 1912 Barbados Handbook Sugar-Works section. But in her exceptional new book, Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire, Andrea Stuart insists Barbados, with its long history of slavery, matters more than we know. A keyword search of the 1912 Barbados Handbook gives a clear indication of the influence of both the Pile and Haynes families, during that period. Chronicle Carbados - 1600s Barbados Public Records, 1913 Barbados Plantations and Owners Names, Plantations & Sugar-works Barbados Handbooks 1912 - 1914, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_plantations_in_Barbados&oldid=993918895, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. And for good reason. The Handbooks of Barbados, during the period of 1912 â 14, presented a comprehensive guide to most everything about Barbados: part visitor guide, weather guide, political guide, island directory, history book, guide to tariffs, fees and railway fares and a listing of sugar-works (estates). In the nineteenth (19th) century Barbados had just over ten Sugar Factories and sugarcane was harvested by using thousands of African slaves. Historically it had been the plantocracy who were the decision makers in Barbados society and it was clear that as the island moved into the 20th Century many of those traditional planter families wished to maintain their influence by migrating into other areas of business. Harvested sugar cane is no longer processed at the plantations but is taken to a central processing plant and then refined for export. New Barbadian sugar planters as well as traders became immensely wealthy. At this time in the history of Barbados the tobacco industry was depressed and the island was in need of a new source of income.  In particular, the largest individual landowner in Barbados, in 1912, the Hon. It is a designated property of the Barbados National Trust. The Barbados Agricultural Management Company (BAMC) manages and operates the sugar industry. Barbados has a number of plantations and great house properties that were instrumental in the islands' booming sugar trade. Barbados then became one of the most attractive British colonies. By 1913 the owner was Fisherpond Est. There has been much written about the struggles within the British West Indian sugar industry post-emancipation both for the plantation owner and the workers that relied upon sugar for their livelihood. Unlike a number of colonies where estate ownership was largely non-resident, Barbados maintained a higher level of local ownership than most with less than 50% of the cultivated land, according to the 1861 Barbados Almanac, foreign owned. On the border the estate also lay partly in St. Peter the estate was built in 1721 by John Jeeves. Yet many of them never looked a slave in the eye or experienced the brutal realities of plantation life. The same year Thomas Gibbs sold 48 acres to Renold Kellsall and 20 acres to Robert Gibbs who still owned it in 1675. It is the oldest house in the Western hemisphere. Here, youâll sit down to a buffet lunch followed by a guided tour of the mansion. 329â345. Was there a Plantation at Thickets in St. Philip? Consisting of 105 acres by 1680 and owned by Henry Kelsall then in 1736 passed to Thomas Harrison, the 1756 to Mary Harrison Walke and 1800 from Thomas Walke to Harrison Walke Sober. The sizes quoted here had been recorded as of 1915. The main source of labor, until the abolition of chattel slavery, was enslaved Africans. The authors assume no responsibility or liability for any errors or omissions in the content. The Barbados Handbook of 1912 only included plantations  with operating steam and wind power sugar-works. These Handbooks covered it all. Today only Andrews Sugar Plantation and Factory in St. Joseph and Portvale in St. James produces sugar.  Over the intervening years the Gills would add a number of additional plantations until the sixteen recorded in 1935, in the Barbados Yearbook and Who’s Who. Soon it wins the hearts of the English sailors. Part III Sugar Works in Barbadosfrom the Handbook of Barbados -1912. Yet it was also the only colony to support the abolition of the slave trade. This birds-eye view from the water testifies to the high productivity of sugar plantations in Barbados by picturing the island’s only major harbor lined with warehouses and thronged with shipping. The sizes quoted here had been recorded as of 1915. Families often owned several plantations and the acreage of each often changed when owners bought and/or sold plots of nearby land. J.C. Lynch. The 1913 and 1914 handbooks also included those plantations where the sugar-works had been removed or had ceased operation because the land was consolidated into larger estates, broken up into tenantries or sold as lots. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3745133, Sinckler, E. Goulburn â The Barbados Handbook 1912 https://digitalarchive.mcmaster.ca/islandora/object/macrepo%3A58229#page/1/mode/2up, Richardson, Bonham â The Impact of Panama money in Barbados in the early twentieth century https://brill.com/abstract/journals/nwig/59/1-2/article-p1_1.xml, Marshal, Woodville and Watson, Karl â Of Halls, Hills and Holes: Place Names of Barbados, An update has been added to Dr. Gerald Bull's. Plantation locations and owners are for general information. Multi-column sorting is also possible – but only on a laptop or a device with a keyboard.  Between 1914 and 1924 many more estates were consolidated or broken into lots which would have reduced the sugar-works further. The name comes from a Barbadian planter family named Ball. We have provided the table below in a format that allows for the quick retrieval of information whether it be by plantation name, size, wind or steam operation, ownership or manager,  All the data has been transcribed from the original publications so we would recommend if you are doing serious research that you refer to the source. An additional, and invaluable source are the Hughes â Querree Papers available through the Shilstone Library at the Barbados Museum and the Barbados Archive, Black Rock.  By 1968 this number had fallen to 14 factories and by 2014, with the closure of Andrew’s Factory in 2013, Portvale became the only operational sugar factory. By 1685 it had grown to 420 acres passed to William Merricke. 5pm—12am. What had once been a sugar industry with over 400 small factories was now down to 112 steam and 219 wind driven sugar-works in 1913. Balls was once a sugar plantation of about four hundred acres. 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