果冻影院

Welchmans Hall Plantation

Barbados | St Thomas

Estate Details

Associated People (3)

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
1840 [SY] - 1865 [EY] → Owner
John Williams Worrell Carrington
1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Owner
Thomas Williams
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Owner
John Thomas Ellis

Notes

It appears that the estate was sold to William Grant Ellis (q.v.) by Thomas Williams (known as General Williams of the Barbados Militia) in 1825. At that stage, the property consisted of 177 acres, with mansion, sugar mill, boiling house etc., and 67 slaves with the agreement that W. G. Ellis would pay off a debt to Ann Hinds, widow of Benjamin Hinds, paying Thomas Williams 拢1,545 17s 6d on account leaving a balance due to Williams of 拢5,000 secured by W. G. Ellis. By this Welchman's Hall ceased to be in the Williams family as it had been since 1675.
What is not clear is at what point John Thomas Ellis acquired the property or what his relation to William Grant Ellis was. William Grant Ellis's 'coloured' son, Thomas Ellis (died 1870) inherited some of his father's property in 1841. See .

Dr John Williams Worrell Carrington bought Welchman's Hall from Mr Ellis in early 1840. He died in 1865 or 1866 and the house was inhabited by his widow until she died in 1881. It was sold in 1882 to Mr Charles West. The main house was dismantled in 1929 and the land sold to Mr Boyce, owner of Sturges Plantation, St Thomas.

Sources

James C. Brandow, Genealogies of Barbados families: from Caribbeana and the Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society (Baltimore, 1983), pp. 591-615 for the Williams family and pp. 606-8 for Thomas Williams and the transfer of the property to W. G. Ellis in 1825.

Email from Helen Hanschell Pollock, 30/06/2018 sourced to: the diary of John Williams Worrell Carrington; Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society Vol. XXIX, p.66-76,93-104.

We are grateful to Helen Hanschell Pollock for her assistance with this entry.

Estate Information (7)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 95(Tot) 47(F) 48(M)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Thomas Williams, his own property.

 
T71/522 252-55
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 98(Tot)  
 

Return of Thomas Williams, his own property. Previously 97 enslaved.

 
T71/531 230-31
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 31(Tot)  
 

Return of Thomas Williams, his own property. Previously 98 enslaved. Changes:
Gift of Thomas Reece: 1; births: 5; deaths: 6; sold to William G. Ellis: 67.

 
T71/538 22-3
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 94(Tot)  
 

Return of John Thomas Ellis, his own property. No previous return. But NB the return gives purchases of 63 enslaved from John Thomas Ellis. This may be a mistake in the Register or it may mean that there were two named John Thomas Ellis. (But note too that John Thomas Ellis's father, John, died in 1801.) The other substantial purchase was of 32 enslaved from Elizabeth Trotman.

See also the return of William Grant Ellis in 1826 for the sales to J. T. Ellis.

 
T71/538 58-60
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 116(Tot)  
[Name] Welchmans Hall  
 

Return of John Thomas Ellis, his own property.

 
T71/542 31-2
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 110(Tot)  
 

Return of John Thomas Ellis, his own property. It is not clear that there was an associated claim on this estate. The house on Welchman Hall was destroyed in the 1831 hurricane.

 
T71/551 23-4
1913
[Name] Welchmanhall  
[Size] 224  
 

Listed in St Thomas, property of Carrington.

 
Barbados 1913 list from the Hughes-Quere indexes transcribed at .