Michael Clayton

Commercial Legacy Details

Partnership Role

Clayton & Cookson
Name partner

Legal (Services: Law)

No notes

Firm Notes

London partnership, associated with the Clayton dynasty in Newcastle-upon-Tyne; the latter was a precursor of Eversheds.

Clayton, Co. & Clayton was one of nine firms of solicitors writing to Lord Glenelg in 1836 to request that the books of the Slave Registry Office in James Street be moved to the Slave Compensation Office in Great George Street.

Firm Sources

http://www.tyneandweararchives.org.uk/DServe2/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo==%22DT.CG%22)

T71/1603 Letter to Lord Glenelg received 29/07/1836.

Further Information

People of Interest

Ann Eliza French

1787 - 1835

Daughter of "free Mulatto" lodging-house-keeper Jane Charlotte Beckford (c. 1759-1825); possibly the daughter of George Ffrench, Clerk to the Jamaica Assembly. Spinster; independently wealthy slave-owner.

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Documents of Interest

Windsor and Williamsfield Inventory of Slaves 1814 p8

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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