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Apparently a returnee from Jamaica, living in Gloucester when she was awarded the compensation for Camperdown Pen and New Shaftson in Jamaica, and probably the mother of Charlotte Pinnock (q.v.).
Death "On the 16th inst. at Somerset Cottage, this city, Ann, relict of Dr. Grant, of Kingston, in the island of Jamaica."
T71/865 St Andrew claim no. 361 (Camperdown Pen) and T71/871 Westmoreland No. 415 (New Shaftson); the two are linked in a letter from Ann Grant to the Commissioners and the Commissioners' reply to her 28/08/1835, T71/1592 p. 218. She also identified herself as the 'mother of Mrs Philip Pinnock'.
Cheltenham Chronicle 24/11/1836.
We are grateful to Peter Selley for his assistance with this entry.
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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Spouse
Dr David Grant
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Children
Charlotte
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£268 16s 5d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
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£25 12s 5d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
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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:
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1817 [EA] - → Executrix
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1820 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Owner
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1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Owner
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Mother → Daughter
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Mother-in-law → Son-in-law
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Wife → Husband
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Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, South-west England, England
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Somerset Cottage, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, South-west England, England
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1789 - 14th Mar 1860
Possibly the first 'ethnic minority' MP to be elected (in 1832) to the House of Commons.
The Buff Bay plantation was a sugar estate next to the Buff Bay River, south of Charlestown in Jamaica. By 1839, the estate was 840 acres.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'Ann Grant', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/15722 [accessed 1st February 2023].
