Barbados Early Cancellations

I noticed as I was trolling through my World material, that there seems to be a very common cancellation used on the early stamps of Barbados. On the examples below, with the first design, all the cancelled stamps I own have a starburst oval cancel, either empty in the centre or with the numeral 1. I am only assuming that other Post Offices may have been identified with different numerals.

Also noted that the first shown is more nearly circular than the others, which are definitely oval. There are other possible differences among the different strikes. For example, in the first two shown, the bars that make up the starburst are very rectangular in shape. In the other strikes, they are all more or less wedge shaped.


The cancel is continued with the Victoria heads, but for some reason is generally more lightly applied. You begin to see it in combination with a circular cancel as well (1p and 4p) which are unfortunately too faint to identify.

I looked through all my examples of the sea horses and chariot issues but could not find a single example of the starburst again.

Anyone out there have the story of this cancel?

Here is a list that I copied and pasted from somewhere on the 'net at one point...not sure if it is complete (or even whether it is accurate):

1 St. Michael
2 Christ Church
3 St. Philip
4 St. George
5 St. John
6 St. Joseph
7 St. James
8 St. Thomas
9 St. Andrew
10 St. Peter
11 St. Lucy

Perhaps I've even pasted it here before?

C.

Thank you for the list - it's not one that I have seen before and I am going to see if I can track down a few of these Post Offices. Odd that they all seem associated with a Church or Parish Name but I guess that's one reasonable way of organizing Post Offices.