Alexander Campbell

Profile & Legacies Summary

1771 - 1858

Biography

Of Upper Thames Street and [45] Woburn Place, awarded the compensation for the Beverely and Copse estates in Hanover Jamaica.

In 1851, Alexander Campbell aged 80 barrister not practising born Jamaica was living at Mt Ephraim, Tunbridge Wells with daughters Mary Louisa aged 36, Justina Gertrude 35, Alex Copse [given as Case] aged 29, Rose Linda aged 25 and Sarah aged 18. In 1841, the family had been at 45 Woburn Place, Alexander Campbell aged 65, Mary 22, Justina 20 Agnes 18 and Sarah 8. Death of Alexander Campbell registered at Tonbridge Q1 1858.
Justina Gertrude Campbell (d. 1907), 'one of the five daughters of Alexander Campbell of the West Indies' married in 1855 the artist Alfred Tidey. Another daughter, Jannette Reid Campbell, married the Surinam slave-owner and merchant George Nicholson at St George Bloomsbury in 1839.
When Alexander Copse Campbell died in 1916 he left £31,914 10s 7d.

Sources

T71/915 Hanover Nos. 9, 10 & 11. Alexander Campbell, England. B. W. Higman, Plantation Jamaica 1750-1850: capital and control in a colonial economy (Mona, Jamaica, University of West Indies Press, 2005) p. 158 identifies Alexander Campbell the owner of Beverley and Copse as of Upper Thames Street and Woburn Place.

1841 and 1851 censuses online; England and Wales FreeBMD Death Index 1837-1915.
ODNB online, V. Remington, 'Tidey, Alfred (1808-1892) miniaturer painter'; Oxford Journal 07/09/1839; Ancestry.com, London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 [database online]. George Nicholson was described in 1859 as the owner of Plantation Hampton Court, Nickerie 'for upwards of 40 years' in 1859, PP 24 Jan-28 August 1860 Vol. LXX (32) Slave-trade, No. 96 Consul Munro to Lord J. Russell (received December 2 [1859], dated Surinam October 10 1859.
National Probate Calendar 1916.

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Spouse

Married but no further details

Children

Mary Louisa; Justina; Alex Copse; Agnes; Rose; Sarah; Jannette Reid

Will

Will of Alexander Campbell Esq., of Tonbridge [sic] Wells, who died 03/02/1858 proved by Alexander Copse Campbell the Son as one of two executors, effects under £4000 [National Probate Calendar 1858].

Wealth at death

£4,000

Associated Claims (4)

Associated Estates (8)

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] - → Attorney

Beverley Settlement [ Jamaica | Hanover ]

1834 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner

Beverley Settlement [ Jamaica | Hanover ]

1815 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner

Copse Sugar Estate [ Jamaica | Hanover ]

1809 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Joint owner

Copse Sugar Estate [ Jamaica | Hanover ]

1820 [EA] - → Receiver

Copse Sugar Estate [ Jamaica | Hanover ]

1820 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Executor

Gibraltar [ Jamaica | Trelawny ]

1823 [EA] - → Other

Montego Bay [ Jamaica | St James ]

Purchaser of enslaved people from this group.

1816 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Owner

New Hope [ Jamaica | St Ann ]

The tentative identification of the Alexander Campbell owner of New Hope with the Alexander Campbell of Copse and Beverley is reinforced by the presence in New Hope and Copse of a Colin Campbell, who has yet to be definitively identified but was probably his father, as owner or co-owner until c. 1811.