West Indies
This section covers references to Haydes in the Caribbean. Specifically, Barbados, St Vincent and Trinidad and Tobago.
Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the southeastern Caribbean Sea, situated about 100 miles (160 km) east of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The island measures some 21 miles (34 km) from northwest to southeast and about 14 miles (23 km) from east to west at its widest point. The capital and largest town is Bridgetown, which is also the main seaport.Barbados was inhabited by indigenous peoples – Arawaks and Caribs – prior to the European colonization of the Americas in the 16th century. The island was briefly claimed by the Spanish Empire who saw trees with a beard like feature (hence the name Barbados), and then by Portugal from 1532 to 1620.
The island was an English and later a British colony from 1625 until 1966. Sugar cane cultivation in Barbados began in the 1640s, which saw the increasing importation of black slaves from West Africa.
Sugar cane cultivation in Barbados began in the 1640s, after its introduction in 1637 by Pieter Blower. Initially, rum was produced but by 1642, sugar was the focus of the industry. As it developed into the main commercial enterprise, Barbados was divided into large plantation estates which replaced the small holdings of the early English settlers as the wealthy planters pushed out the poorer. Some of the displaced farmers relocated to the English colonies in North America, most notably South Carolina. To work the plantations, black Africans – primarily from West Africa – were imported as slaves in such numbers that there were three for every one planter. Increasingly after 1750 the plantations were owned by absentee landlords living in Britain and operated by hired managers. Persecuted Catholics from Ireland also worked the plantations. Life expectancy of slaves was short, and replacements were purchased annually.
Several black slave codes were implemented in the late-17th century which resulted in several slave rebellion attempts, however none was successful. The Consolidated Slave Law was passed following the largest slave rebellion in Barbadian history, this was then followed by the total abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1834. Britain continued to rule the island until independence was granted in 1966 and the state became a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
Slave Registers of Foreign British Colonial dependencies 1812-1834
www.ancestry.co.uk have the records of a Thomas Garth. This shows Joseph Hade as being one of his slaves in Barbados aged 3 years 8 months in 1834. CO28/110 has a letter from Thomas Garth regarding the Plan for the Treatment of Negros on Estates in Barbados. No names are however mentioned.
Thomas Garth was a Captain, Royal Navy, nephew of General Thomas Garth and son of Charles Garth (1738-1784, colonial agent and MP for Devizes 1765-1780). He inherited Haines Hill and estates and enslaved people on Barbados after the death of his brother Charles (d 1818) who had inherited from Frances Colleton, widow of James Edward Colleton.
John Garth, the grandfather of Charles (d 1818) and Thomas Garth (1781-1841) had been James Edward Colleton’s second cousin. Captain Thomas Garth left £300,000 in 1841.
John Colleton, later Sir John Colleton, bart., arrived in Barbados in 1650 and pieced together his plantations by several purchases. By a Deed made in 1666. Sir John Colleton made a settlement of 2 plantations – one in St. Peter and one in St. John on his 4 sons – Peter, John, James and Thomas.
John Colleton, was the grandson of a royalist who fled to Barbados after the civil war, he bought Haines Hill in Berkshire in 1736 and his son James Edward (d 1787) MP for Lostwithiel married the daughter of the first Earl Cowper and had considerable property in England as well as the West Indian plantations.
The St Johns parish was 8,600 acres in the 1800s and the Colleton plantation was 537 acres. In 1835 it was owned by Jos (prob Thos) Garth. A map of St John’s parish is below:
T71/550 is a record of No of Enslaved People (272) Return of Forster Clarke. 225-6. I checked this record at the Public Record Office at Kew and it contains no names.
Barbados Wills and Administrations
www.myfamily.com has a record of English settlers in Barbados. Under wills and administrations was an entry under the will of Mary Weale dated 3 Aug 1702. It showed Eleanor Hayde, the wife of Peter Hayde, and Peter and Richard Hayde formerly of London as executors.
I suspect that this may be a misprint and should probably be Hyde.
British Army records
Benjamin Fanshaw Hayde was a private in WW1. He enlisted in 1915 aged 38 (b 1877) in British Guiana. His next of kin was a niece in Georgetown.
Family Search
Family Search also has the following references for Barbados:
USA arrivals
Shipping records of arrivals into USA show:
Irish connection
In 1652, post the wars with Cromwell, a lot of Catholic men, together with crowds of orphan boys and girls were shipped to the West Indies to work for the English planters on their sugar plantations. It is possible that an Irish Hayde may have been amongst this transplantation.
USA Naturalisation
Church records for Barbados from 1637 to 1891 include the following families:
Born circa 1800:
• William Hade and Elizabeth. William was possibly baptised as an adult in 1836 in St John’s parish. He was from Newcastle (St John’s parish).
o John William Haide b 1838, mar Mary Ann Hordle 1867. D 1875 as Hade
o Betty Bellah Hade b 1839
o Celia Criss Hade b 1841
o Mary Ann Hade b 1843
• Samuel Hade/Hayde m Mimbah 1839, Pool, St Johns. He and Mimbah were baptised as adults in 1839. Pos D 1843 aged 70.
o Jane b 1838, Mar Joseph Haynes 1856
• John Hade mar Mary Patience 1838, Colleton, St Johns parish. John was a cooper in 1843
o John Thomas b 1839
o Rebecca Hinds b 1843
o Jane Ann Hade b 1845
o Susan Frances Hade b 1847. D 1848
• Trinculo Hade. Bap as an adult in 1838. From Colleton (St Peter parish). Mar Mary 1838
Born circa 1830s:
• Jenny Rose Hade b 1839
o Judy Christian Hade b 1840
• Criss Celia Hayde m George Toppin 1847, St John parish. John Hayde was a witness.
• Joseph Crawford (or Atwell) Hade mar Jane Frances Prescott/Prescod 1854, Gails Hill, Barbados
o Elizabeth Anne Hayde b 1855. Mar James Edward Price 1874
o Joseph Frances Hade b 1858
o John Edmund Hade b 1863 (see also tree below)
o Mary Catharine Hade b 1867
o William Christopher Hade b 1873 St John’s. As a Hayde, mar Dora Welch 1921 as a widower.
Female Hayde b 1904
• Joseph Henry Hade and Christian Ann Tempro
o Jacob Ishmael Hade b 1865
I have come across other links with the Caribbean. These include:
- A recent reference on internet material to a Wayne Hayde, a policeman, known in the calypso world as The Watchman. He was born in St Vincent around 1960. His mother came from T and T.
- American census records in the 1880s that refer to Haydes who appear to have been slaves
- A Canadian family with Caribbean origins
- A London family with Caribbean origins
I have not yet been able to link these to any other parts of the family.
Families of Caribbean Origin in the United Kingdom
Records at the National Archives at Kew show:
- Miss Ira Lenora Hayde b 3 August 1915 Sangre Grande, Trinidad . Naturalised 3 Sept 1969. She lived in London. Father was James Hayde b 3 Oct 1880, Sangre Grande, Trinidad.
- Ena Hayde of St Vincent St, Tunapuna, Trinidad. Born St Vincent 13 Feb 1920. She renounced her UK and Colonies citizenship and applied to be a resident of Trinidad and Tobago.
Sandre Grande and Tunapuna are close by as can be seen from the following map.
A tree has been established as follows:
John (Hadde) Hayde b circa 1858 Barbados (this could be the John Hade b 1853 above):
• Eve (Kooley) Hayde, Barbados
• Joseph (Buck) Hayde b 1878 Barbados, d 1928 St Vincent and Grenadines. Mar Rachael Louise Griffith 1899, St Patrick, St Vincent.
o Ethelyn Hayde
Christina Hayde, b Sion Hill
Iva Hayde b Sion Hill
June Hayde n Sion Hill
o Agatha Hayde b and d Sion Hill, St Vincent
o Doris Recena Hayde B and d 2005 Sion Hill, St Vincent. Mar William Cecil Raguette
Monica Hayde b 1940 d 2018 St Vincent
o Eve Hayde b and D Sion Hill
o Jane Hayde b Sion Hill, d Trinidad and Tobago
o Ruth Hayde b and d Sion Hill
o Ursela Hayde b and d Sion Hill. Mar Pike Steele
o Rebertha Hayde b 1901 Sion Hill. Mar Hamlett and then Marcus Woodley in 1934
Beatrice Hayde b 1917 d 1998 Sion Hill
Daryl (Hamlett) Hayde b 1924 and d 2006 Sion Hill. Mar Maria Trumpett
o Edward Hayde b 1902 Sion Hill d Sion Hill
Conrad
Marcella
Veronica
o Rebecca Hayde b St Vincent d T and T
Conrad J Hayde b 1933 d 1989 St Vincent
Randolph b 1940 St Vincent
Angela b 1944 d 1989 St Vincent
• George Gee d 2024 St Vincent
• Joanne d 2015 St Vincent
o Beryl Hayde b 1910 d 1957
Cynthia b 1936 St Vincent d 2004 T and T