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Drax Hall Estate is a sugarcane plantation situated in Saint George, Barbados, in the Caribbean. Drax Hall still stands on the site where sugarcane was first cultivated on Barbados and is one of the island 's two remaining Jacobean houses .
James Drax was the son of Mary (née Lapworth) Drax (born c. 1580) and William Drax (c. 1580 –1632), of Finham, in the parish of Stoneleigh, Warwickshire. [3]James Drax became one of the earliest English migrants to the island of Barbados.
Once owned by Colonel James Drax, it is one of the oldest remaining buildings with a Jacobean-style of architecture in Barbados. By 1913 it was owned by Dunsany. As of 2017, owned by Richard Drax MP. Francia Plantation: St. George: A relatively modern plantation built in 1913 by Rene Mourraille and currently houses a private school.
Multiple generations of people were enslaved at the 250-hectare Drax Hall plantation in Saint George, Barbados, a Caribbean nation that received at least 600,000 Africans between 1627 and 1833 ...
Henry Drax (c. 1693–1755) of Ellerton Abbey, Yorkshire, and Charborough, near Wareham, Dorset, was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1718 and 1755. Drax was the eldest son of Thomas Drax (formerly Shatterden) of Pope's Common, Hertfordshire , Ellerton Abbey and Barbados and his wife Elizabeth Ernle, daughter of ...
Benedict Cumberbatch's ancestors owned slaves in Barbados in the 1700s and 1800s. Reports alleged the actor was facing reparation-payment claims.
Gibbes was born in St James' Parish, Barbados, on 7 March 1731 and baptised that same year. His parents were Philip Gibbes (died 1763) and his wife Elizabeth Harris. He went back in the male line to Henry Gibbes of Bristol, whose son Philip (died 1648) settled on Barbados, through Philip (died 1697) and Philip (died 1726). [2]
St Nicholas Abbey. Built in 1658, St Nicholas Abbey is a splendid Jacobean mansion set on a 400-acre plantation with magnificent trees, a scenic train ride and a free tasting of its superb single ...