UCL

Thomas Bull Williams

Profile & Legacies Summary

1789 - 1840

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Awarded the compensation for the enslaved people on Orange Grove in St Ann Jamaica as owner-in-fee.

  1. 'On 25th November last [1840], after a few days illness, at Orange Grove in the Island of Jamaica, deeply lamented, Thomas Bull Williams, late of Gower-st Bedford Square in the 52nd year of his age.' In 1845, death at Holly lodge Hammersmith of Thomas Robert, eldest son of the late Thomas Bull Williams of Gower-street, Bedford Sq. and Orange Grove, Rio Bueno in the Island of Jamaica.

  2. Will of Thomas Bull Williams of Gower Street proved 23/3/1841.


Sources

T71/857 Thomas B Williams St Ann owner-in-fee. 1833 Jamaica Almanac Thomas B Williams.

  1. Times 16/2/1841 p. 7; Times 26/2/1845 p. 9.

  2. PROB 11/1945/77. His two marriages are shown in 28/3/1811 at St James Paddington and 24/6/1820 at St Pancras respectively, London England Marriages and Banns 1754-1921.

Further Information

Absentee?
Transatlantic
Name in compensation records
Thomas B. Williams
Spouse
(1) Mary Susannah Dunbar (2) Mary Sophia Forbes
Children
With (1) Thomas Robert; Mary Francklyn; with (2) George Frederick; Amelia Grant

Associated Claims (1)

Jamaica St Ann 487 (Orange Grove)
£1,075 10s 8d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
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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
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Orange Grove [ Jamaica | St Ann ]
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Owner
Orange Grove [ Jamaica | St Ann ]

Addresses (1)

61 Gower Street, Bloomsbury, London, Middlesex, London, England
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