Alexander Robinson

Profile & Legacies Summary

1785 - 1839

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Resident in Dominica, dying there in 1839. Executor of John McCorry and accused of appropriating the Antrim Valley estate (for which he was awarded compensation) at the expense of the heiress in Ireland, and probably the same man as the Alexander Robinson who counterclaimed unsuccessfully with his brothers as legatees on the Rosalie estate on Dominica, as well as the same man who counterclaimed on Spring Garden in Tobago.

[Death] Sept. 4 [1839] At Dominica aged 54, the Hon Alexander Robinson, member of Her Majesty's Council of that Island.

Sources

T71/881 Dominica claim no. 285 (Antrim Valley).

Gentleman's Magazine Vol. 166 (1839) p. 667.

Associated Claims (2)

Associated Estates (4)

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] → Executor

Antrim Valley [ Dominica ]

1820 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney

Cinnamon Hill [ Dominica ]

1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Executor

Epsom Hall [ Dominica ]

1820 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner

Rosalie [ Dominica ]

Shown as joint owner in the Slave Registers. He and four brothers were legatees under his uncle John Robinson's will, in which capacity he claimed the slave compensation in the 1830s.