12th Mar 1838 | 26 Enslaved | £1341 12s 9d
Not listed in the Parliamentary Papers.
Details given in T71/894.
1838A: £250 0s 0d went to William Fraser etc. (T71/1305: as assignees of mortgage ); £420 16s 4d went to Edward Walkinshaw.
1838B: £670 16s 5d went to Wm. Eccles and Robert Eccles.
T71/1593 p. 279: letter, dated 06/10/1836, to E. Walkinshaw, Liverpool, responding to Edward Walkinshaw's letter to Lord Glenelg. Edward Walkinshaw had misnumbered the claim, and was given details of this correct claim.
T71/519 p. 2263 (Slave Registers of 1834): 25 enslaved persons were registered to 'Cottage' by Wm. Walkinshaw.
T71/1611: letter from Edward Walkinshaw referring to this claim, stating that residuary interest was 'vested in a widow with eight destitute children.'
T71/1594 p. 154: letter, dated 18/12/1837, to Mrs Sarah Walkinshaw, 10 Brunswick Buildings, Weymouth (Dorset), declining guidance on the outcome.
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Trinidad
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1838A & B
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Clydesdale Cottage
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1761 - ????
"Free quadroon woman" and mother of eleven children; independently wealthy, perhaps through legacies left her by her partners James Tierney (died 1784) and Ebenezer Robertson (died 1825).
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'Trinidad 1838A & B (Clydesdale Cottage)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/28203 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
