Grace Dow

Profile & Legacies Summary

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Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Previous owner of 6 enslaved persons in Antigua, for whom her sister Rebecca Mackenzie (q.v.) lodged an unsuccessful counterclaim as her executor. Deceased by 1836.

Daughter of Archibald Dow and his wife Martha née Byam who married in St Philip, Antigua, 05/09/1776, sister of Rebecca, Charles, Grace and William (all q.v.) and Eliza.

Sources

T81/877 Antigua claim no. 820.

See separate entry for Rebecca Mackenzie née Dow for evidence which links the whole family together.

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish?

Associated Claims (2)

Relationships (4)

Grace Dow

Daughter → Mother

Martha Dow (née Byam)

Grace Dow

Sister → Brother

Grace Dow

Sister → Brother

Grace Dow

Sisters

Rebecca Mackenzie (née Dow)

Further Information

People of Interest

Dorothy Diana Yates (née Smellie)

???? - 29^th Aug 1873

Free person of colour, slave-owner in Jamaica. Long-term partner and later wife of Thomas Legal Yates. Living in Britain from the mid-1830s until her death in 1873.

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Documents of Interest

Windsor and Williamsfield Inventory of Slaves 1814 p8

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.

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CITING THIS RECORD:
'Grace Dow', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/1239316268 [accessed 25th April 2024].

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