Francis Ford Pinder originally resided in the Island of Barbados .  He  owned a Plantation known as Hothersalls  with 234 Slaves .  There is a substantial amount of Genealogical information in his will  which was proved in England after his death in 1843 by that time he was residing in Bath .

Here is the information I unearthed about the family for a Pharos tutors course

Francis Ford Pinder

Will Chosen from Searching for Pinder /19^th Century, from the National Probate Calendar of the National Archives.

The Will was purchased and attached are the copy of the original will, and a transcription made by me.

(The transcription has a few words, which were so indistinct that they could not be transcribed.)

The Will is that of a person called Francis Ford Pinder who originally resided in the Island of Barbados, he made the will when he was living in Bath in 1840 .It gives details of some of his children and grandchildren who receive bequests, a faithful servant who receives an annuity, and details of his property and business in Barbados, a plantation called Hothersalls.

He made provision for his unmarried daughter.

It gives a wealth of genealogical material to start to build up a family tree , both ancestors and descendants , plus information which gives some background material to research the social and economic standing of the family in the context of Barbadian Society of the late 18^th to mid 19^th C.

The Will was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury in London, however it was also proved locally in Barbados some time later.

Persons mentioned in the Will

Francis Ford Pinder. Plantation Owner

Elizabeth Christian Pinder. His first wife

William Maynard Pinder son of Elizabeth

Rev John Hothersall Pinder son of Elizabeth.

Rev Francis Ford Pinder

Rev Humphrey Senhouse Pinder

George Pinder

Elizabeth Wood Pinder. daughter

There is no mention of the mother of the above.4 sons and a daughter

Grandchildren

Francis Ford Pinder

Edward Pinder

Elizabeth Maynard Pinder

Catherine Pinder

Anne Pinder

Mary Hothersall Pinder

All children of William Maynard Pinder

No other grandchildren or children mentioned

Druce and Druce ( may be solicitors ?)

Jane Cutting, loyal servant

There are 3 generations called Francis Ford Pinder so care is taken to make sure that the correct one is identified in sources.

The document does not give details of where Francis was born or dates, or the date of death. It doesn’t mention who the mother of three of his sons is.

It mentions where he was living when the will was made.

It also mentions that Jane Cutting had come from Barbados to serve him in England.

We know that Francis the first had a Plantation called Hothersall , we know he was probably married at least twice , 3 of his sons were Clergymen , there is no information about the occupations of William and George .

His daughter is unmarried.

His will mentions a sum of money belonging to his first wife, which he has kept for his sons. He seems to be a very fair man leaving the largest sums and the Plantation to his Eldest (?) son, leaving equal amounts to the other sons, and something for the children of William.

He makes provision for his daughter Elizabeth. Some of which only while, she remains unmarried . This was prior to the Married Women’s Property Act, and if she married her husband would have acquired her money and possessions. Also it might have been assumed that her husband had the means to support her. She was left a long list of table silver, some furniture, indicating a family of some wealth

There is mention of interest rates and also income from the Plantation which after his decease would have been inherited by his son William.

With the recent Emancipation of the Slaves and the uncertainty economically, the amounts to be inherited would have been somewhat uncertain.

I would begin in Barbados

In 1644 the population of Barbados was estimated at 30,000, of this amount about 800 were of African descent, with the remainder mainly of English descent. English smallholders were eventually bought out and the island was filled up with large African slave-worked sugar plantations owned by wealthy families

In 1833 the Slaves were Emancipated, changing the context in which Francis Ford Pinder lived and may have been one of the reasons for him coming back to live in England

I searched for genealogy records for Barbados.

As this was a former British Colony there appeared to be a great deal of information available.

1. Google Books

Genealogies of Barbados families from Caribbeanna, and the Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Societey.

Caribbeana( A Barbados Periodical ) includes results of numerous searches by ‘professional ‘genealogists of 17^th / 18^th C records .

Free digital version at the University of Florida Website

Pages 447-452, Pinder search

This names Frances Pinder widow, will proved 8/8/1767, and Timothy Pinder her husband, Merchant, will proved 18/9/1750.

Frances names all of her children and includes a Francis Ford Pinder son of her son William Pinder.

Timothy was buried in St Michaels Church, Barbados.

William the son acquired a large portion of the estate of Hothersalls through his wife the youngest daughter of John Hothersall, Ann Isabella Hothersall. . Johns will was proved on 8/12/1796.

Francis Ford Pinders’ father William was the Chief Justice of Common Pleas, died 16/12/1806 and is buried in the family burial place in the Churchyard of St John

Parish Records of baptisms. marriages and deaths for St Michaels Parish , and St Johns can be searched for records of these people .

www.ancestry.co.uk

English Settlers in Barbados 1637-1800

Births, marriages and deaths, wills and administrations..

Barbados records

P507 Rl1/5 1790.

Copies of original records show Francis Ford Pinder married, Elizabeth Christian Maynard 12/4/ 1790

Francis Ford Pinder 21/11/1802 married Elizabeth Senhouse , this was his second wife .

Monumental Inscriptions.

These give a picture of death in a faraway tropical island, primitive medical care, deaths on ships, trips to and from the mother country , and in particular epidemics of yellow fever , and infant deaths

They also give quite a bit of biographical and family details. There is a particularly heartbreaking one for Elizabeth Christian Maynard who died at the age of 30., gives the date of her birth , death and names her parents

Monumental Inscriptions: Tombstones of the island of Barbados

Archive.org/stream/monumental inscriOOoolivrich/monumentalinscriOO00livrich_djvu.txt

This marble transmits to posterity

The virtues

of

ELIZABETH CHRISTIAN PINDER

Wife of the honorable FRANCIS FORD PINDER

and daughter of JONAS and CHRISTIAN MERCY MAYNARD

who

animated by the unfading example of her excellent mother

shone forth thro’ life one of its brightest ornaments

distinguished by unaffected piety

christian humility and active benevolence

after ten years of uninterrupted felicity

passed in the endearing society of her beloved husband

her tender frame and delicate constitution

fell a victim

to the slow but fatal progress of a disease

which undermining her invaluable health

and yielding neither to

the tender assiduities of an adoring husband

the united skill of the most experienced physians

nor the influence of a more genial climate

removed her in the bloom of youth

to the regions of Eternal Bliss

on the 9th of Decr 1799

Aged 30 years

There are records for other names in the various cemeteries which appear in the Pinder Story . Maynards ,Skeets, Hothersalls , Beckles .

Francis Ford Pinder in England

Legacies of British Slave Ownership.

Following the Emancipation of the Slaves in 1833, the Plantation Owners received compensation based on the number of slaves that they had.

TNA/CO 318/150

A search returned 2 hits for FFP

Claims T71/900 5288 5310 .

The first is for Hothersalls , and £4307.40d was awarded in May 1836 for the loss of services of 204 ‘enslaved ‘ This was a large number of slaves , and a substantial sum of money .

When did Francis return to England?

The Sons and daughter

William Maynard Pinder

Search parish Records of Barbados.

Oxford University Alumni, 1500-1886 – Search – Ancestry.co..uk

http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/Documents/acad/intro.html

alumni cantabriagensis , also on http://www.ancestry.co.uk

Pinder, Francis Ford

Approx. lifespan: 1804–1861

Pens. aged 17 Trinity College adm1821:03:07

1. of Pinder, Francis Ford

of the Barbados (by his 2nd wife Senhouse, Elizabeth dau. of Senhouse, William, Surveyor-General of the Leeward Islands ).

1. in the Barbados West Indies

Sch: Charterhouse School Charterhouse, [London]

Matric 1822:10MT: ;

BA 1826 ;

MA 1829

R.: Gosforth, Cumberland 1835-61

1. aged 57 . 1861:08:31

brother of Pinder, Humphrey S. (1822) and

half-brother of John H. ( (1811) and William M. (1810).

(Clergy List; G. Mag. 1861, II. 453.)

“Caribbean, Marriages, 1591-1905,” index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XL26-NN5 : accessed 1 March 2015), William Maynard Pinder and Ann Applewhaite, 07 Sep 1820; citing Saint George,Barbadoes,Caribbean, reference ; FHL microfilm 1,157,950.

I searched for him on Google ,

I reached a Google Book called ‘List of Carthusians 1800 – 1879 .

This is a list of Alumni of Charterhouse school in Godalming .

There we find all 5 sons of Francis Pinder (named in his will )

This gives dates of birth, death, occupations, and dates at the school .

Children of the Plantation Owners were sent home to England for education in many cases (?)

This gave William Maynard Pinder as a Barrister, and George as a lieutenant colonel in the Army , 15^th Regiment ( of what ? )

The other three are Clergymen, and the Cambridge Colleges that they attended are given . .

Why are so many of the sons and a grandson Clergymen?

The oldest son inherited the Plantation and it was common that younger sons might be in the Clergy, or the Army .

Society for the Propagation of the gospel ( SPG )

The society raised money to found a college to educate negro slaves , although its intentions were good and they supposedly suppprted the abolition of slavery , nevertheless a large part of their income on Barbados was acquired from the slave labour of the large plantation owners , of whom Francis Ford Pinder was one .

The Reverend John Hothersall eventually became the Principle of Codrington College , the school that was founded , although eventually it became clear that this was not successful and no slaves were being taught . This did change after Emancipation .

http://www.britishonlinearchives.co.uk/group.php?pid=72276cod&keywords=

Codrington Collection .SPG

“It was not so much the SPG that the Church should be apologising for as the activities of the individual parsons who kept plantations and slaves for sheer profit.”

WEST INDIES RECORDS OF THE

UNITED SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL

c.1710-1908

There are sources such as

http://theclergydatabase.org.uk/

http://db.theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/persons/index.jsp

Descendants

From 1841 the censuses become a useful source .

I found Jane Cutting in Bath in 1841 living with Francis Ford Pinder and Elizabeth Pinder his daughter as his servant .I found her in 1851 , unmarried and described as an Annuitant , with a companion (female ) . I wondered whether she was still serving the family or if she had been allowed to keep the Annuity.

Other sources, which may of more limited value, include family trees as there may be errors in them.

William Maynard Pinder born 1792 , sailed for Liverpool in 1824 , he bequeathed Hothersalls to his Son Francis Ford Pinder who had no children , and he in turn bequeathed it to North Pinder ( The original FFP grandchild . North Pinder sold the Plantation through the Court of Chancery in 1900 .

All the information in the above paragraph can be checked through Probate Records and Court records ., possibly shipping records , and records of Liverpool and its slave history .

Hothersall still exists today, as does Codrington College.

The story is of a family who made their fortune through slavery, returning to England when Barbadian Society changed to comfortable middle class lives as well educated people.

The final question is How did this family arrive in Barbados , where did they come from originally ? Research into the 17^th century and before becomes much more difficult !