James Daly

???? - 1846

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Large-scale attorney and also a slave-owner in his own right. Father-in-law of Duncan Robertson of Gilnock (q.v.), whose first wife was Bridget Daly, and godfather of George William Gordon, the Jamaican National Hero executed after the Morant Bay rising. James Daly appears to have died in Jamaica c. 1846.

  1. Administration of the will of James Daly planter [at present of Lambeth Lodge in the parish] of Lambeth Surrey [and late of the parishes of St Elizabeth and Manchester in Jamaica] [made 19/01/1837] granted 09/03/1847. He left his property in trust to secure an annuity of £200 p.a. to his wife Marianne and £100 p.a. each to his son, also James until 32, and his daughter, also named Marianne, until 21 and then 25. His residuary heir was his son James. The will had been proved in Jamaica in 1846, when he was shown as of St Elizabeth and Manchester, late of Lambeth.

  2. James Daly was the subject of an allegation of cruelty by Elizabeth Hart, an enslaved woman, in 1832.


Sources

B.W. Higman, Plantation Jamaica p. 79. Higman shows Daly as attorney for two estates, a pen and two plantations in St Elizabeth [in 1832].

  1. PROB 11/2052/91.

  2. CO 137/182/34 Council of Protection in St Elizabeth enquiring into complaint made by Elizabeth Hart, an enslaved person, against her master James Daly, charging him with cruelty; case to be brought to trial after governor's departure. Somerset Lowry-Corry, Earl of Belmore, Governor of Jamaica, Jamaica no. 212, Folios 394-395. Date: 1832 June 9.


Associated Claims (27)

£988 16s 6d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
£26 12s 2d
Awardee (Receiver)
£1,813 10s 1d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
£757 19s 10d
Awardee (Executor or executrix)
£807 1s 4d
Awardee (Trustee)
£224 14s 3d
Awardee
£79 16s 2d
Awardee
£2,168 4s 2d
Awardee (Receiver)
£305 8s 2d
Awardee
£5,509 17s 11d
Awardee (Trustee)
£375 5s 10d
Awardee
£48 13s 11d
Awardee
£331 19s 8d
Awardee
£4,136 7s 9d
Awardee (Receiver)
£106 8s 11d
Awardee
£1,460 10s 10d
Awardee (Judgement creditor)
£1,322 19s 0d
Awardee (Trustee)
£62 6s 6d
Awardee
£764 2s 9d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
£917 18s 6d
Awardee (Executor or executrix)
£2,818 4s 0d
Awardee (Executor or executrix)
£588 19s 1d
Awardee (Receiver)
£79 16s 8d
Awardee
£301 12s 9d
Awardee
£26 12s 2d
Awardee
£718 10s 2d
Awardee
£656 19s 0d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)

Associated Estates (76)

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] → Attorney
1820 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
1817 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Other

Representative to the heirs of Vickris Dickinson deceased.

1832 [EA] - → Trustee
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Lessee
1826 [EA] - → Executor
1820 [EA] - → Attorney
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1820 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Guardian
1834 [EA] - → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Joint owner
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Trustee and Executor
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1829 [EA] - → Receiver
1826 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Receiver
1826 [EA] - → Attorney
1817 [EA] - → Other
1820 [EA] - → Receiver
1823 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Receiver
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1817 [EA] - → Agent
1823 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Administrator
1829 [EA] - → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1817 [EA] - → Other
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1817 [EA] - → Other
1823 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Executor
1834 [EA] - → Judgement creditor
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Joint owner
1826 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Receiver
1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Executor
1832 [EA] - → Executor
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1820 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Administrator
1823 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
1820 [EA] - → Attorney
1823 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Executor
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Other

President of the workhouse

1832 [EA] - → Receiver
1820 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Receiver
1829 [EA] - → Mortgagee-in-Possession
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Executor
1826 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Receiver
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1829 [EA] - → Attorney
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1820 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - → Lessee
1820 [EA] - → Attorney
1826 [EA] - → Executor
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Executor
1820 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Lessee (Enslaved)
1826 [EA] - → Executor
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
1826 [EA] - → Lessee
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Trustee and Executor
1826 [EA] - → Attorney

Legacies Summary

Commercial (1)

Director
 
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Shown as a Director in 1838 in Henry Pinckards' highly critical account of the running of the firm. James Daly was exempted from Pinckard's...

Relationships (4)

Husband → Wife
Father-in-law → Son-in-law
Father → Natural Son
Extra-marital relationships

Addresses (1)

Lambeth Lodge, Commercial Road, Lambeth, Surrey, London, England