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John Henry Newman

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Biography

Apparently resident in Dominica, but in England in the 1830s. Awarded the compensation for two small claims in Dominica, claimed unsuccesfully as owner-in-fee of Antrim Valley which he had bought for £11,000 currency (of which £3000 only was paid) and as trustee of the marriage settlement of John Wilson Foreman for Morne Patate, both also in Dominica.

  1. John Henry Newman was Clerk of the Assembly in Dominica 1817.

Sources

T71/881 Dominica claim nos. 169A&B&C (Morne Patate), 242, 285 (Antrim Valley) and 286.

T71/1609 letter from J.A. Simpson re Dominica claim no. 336B refers to John Henry Newman [trustee of a marriage settlement] being ''now absent in England."

  1. House of Commons Papers 1818 Vol. 17 p. 36 [concerning the delay in slave registration on Dominica].

Associated Claims (2)

Dominica 242
£72 18s 5d
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Dominica 286
£26 16s 4d
Awardee
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Associated Estates (2)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Owner
Antrim Valley [ Dominica ]

Purchaser of Antrim Valley c. 1826, for which he paid only £3,000 currency of the £11,000 currency price.

1826 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Other
Mount Pleasant [ Dominica ]

30 enslaved people were removed from the estate to Canefield Estate by John Newman and wife, being their moiety of the enslaved people, in July 1826.

The corresponding entry for Cane Field or Canefield in Dominica shows the same 30 enslaved people had been purchased from John Henry Newman and wife in July 1826 and removed from Mount Pleasant Estate.

Relationships (1)

John Henry Newman
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John Lowndes
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Either son-in-law and father-in-law or grandson and grandfather. John Lowndes daughter Henrietta reportedly married 'Rev. Henry Newman', probably the Henry Charles Christian Newman who matriculated...