1817 - ????
Surgeon of the East India Co. 1817-1861
Thomas Munro Munro appears in the Roll of the Indian Medical Service for 1817, became an assistant surgeon in 1816 and a surgeon in 1827. At Wooden House, Kelso, in the census of 1841, age 45, of independent means, in the household of his brother-in-law George Scott and his sister Barbara. At Benrigg in 1851, age 55, unmarried, surgeon East India Company, M.D. of Edinburgh, retired not practising. In the census of 1861 at Benrig House, age 66, doctor of medicine of the University of Edinburgh but practising surgeon, East India Company, redired on full pay, born Forfarshire, Auchterhouse, living with three female and one male servants.
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.
