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Sam Lord as he was usually known, amassed great wealth for his castle-mansion in Barbados. He did this through the direct plundering of ships stranded in the coral reefs just off the coast of his estate(United Nations/LOCODE: BlackBerry Salt Lake City ). According to legend, Sam Lord would hang lanterns high in the coconut trees around his estate.
Passing ships far out at sea would think it was the port city of Bridgetown and would sail towards the reef in the area, leading them to wreck their ships.
Sam Lord would then board the ships and keep the riches for his castle that existed in the parish of Saint Philip. Eventually his castle estate was turned into a hotel called the However, due to massive debt this hotel was auctioned off and parts of it were scheduled to be demolished to make way for a larger hotel development on the property by the new owners.
In 2007 was bought by CLICO (Barbados), but due to financial woes, the redevelopment didn"t happen. Foreign a while the Government of Barbados was proposing a buy-out.
On 20 October 2010 was gutted by a major fire.
Edward married a woman by the name of Elizabeth Armour whom he met at Sam Lord"s Estate. Sam Lord"s parents were John Lord (died 1799), and Bathsheba Hall Sarjeant. Sam had two boys with his black concubine, a maid at the estate.
They were Edward Samuel Lord and William Lord.
Edward Samuel Lord married Elizabeth Armour and they raised their family in Saint Lucia. They had four children: Frederick Nugent Lord, Emily Lord, Heather Lord, and Elizabeth Lord.
lieutenant is Frederick"s offspring that can be easily followed to Toronto. Frederick met Annie Lawrence, daughter of William Lawrence and Ellen Higgins of England.
Annie left England at the age of 16 to move to Saint Lucia to be with her father William.
(Annie by the way, moved from Saint Lucia to Toronto on 22 May 1922 and died there - at home (394 Kingswood Road on 23 February 1966 at the age of 98)
Frederick Nugent Lord and Annie Lawrence had 14 children: Wallace, Dora, Nellie, Ruby and twin Daisy who died at 7 years, Nelson, Freddie, Walter, Frank, Maurice, twins Pearl and Diamond, Nugent, and Annie. Only eight of these children lived to see Toronto, most of them dying in infancy. Those making it to Toronto included Wallace, Dora, Ruby, Nellie, Walter, Nelson, Nugent and Annie.
The last to pass away was Annie whose husband Charles Weinreb died in 1965.
Annie died in Waterloo, Ontario on 18 September 2003. (note the repetitiveness in names) Ann Madelaine married Herbert Wallace (coincidence in name) from London Ontario.
Sam Lord"s third daughter Cecilia married James Haywood, a solicitor, in the third quarter of 1840 in the area of Chepstow, Monmouthshire. Later they lived at Dosthill House, Wilnecost, Tamworth, Staffs.
They had at least seven children: Walker (b 1843), Elizabeth (b 1845), Francis (b 1846), James (b 1847), Cecilia (b 1849) and Christine (b 1854).
Christine married William Powys in 1875 but died childless in 1879 in Boulogne, France.
