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David Skaife

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1839

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Resident slave-owner in Jamaica in the 1830s, but dying in London in 1839.

  1. Will of David Skaife [at present] of Manchester Jamaica [but intending shortly to depart therefrom to England] [made in 1838] proved 19/11/1839. He left an annuity of £250 currency p.a. to his mother and £100 sterling p.a. to Alexander Waldron Hopeton, then at school in Peckham, and £3000 at 21. He felt several legacies of £500 each with the residue of his estate to his wife Mary Anderson, with contingent remainder to the wife and daughter of Thomas Wheatle of Jamaica.

Sources

David Skaife aged 47 was buried at All Souls Kensal Green of Berk[e]l[e]y Place, Edgware Road, Paddington, 15/07/1839, Ancestry.con, London, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-2003 [database online].

  1. PROB 11/1919/118.

Further Information

Absentee?

Associated Claims (2)

Jamaica Kingston 215
£93 2s 11d
Awardee
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Jamaica Manchester 45 (New Forest)
£3,842 18s 0d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
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Associated Estates (5)

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
1832 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
New Forest [ Jamaica | Manchester ]
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Joint owner
New Forest [ Jamaica | Manchester ]
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Receiver
New Forest [ Jamaica | Manchester ]
1826 [EA] - → Guardian
Unknown [ Jamaica | Manchester ]
1832 [EA] - → Other
Unknown [ Jamaica | Manchester ]

Purchaser of enslaved people from this estate.

Addresses (1)

Berkeley Place, Edgware Road, Paddington , London, Middlesex, London, England
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