1787 - ????
Slave-owner of Jamaica, son of Robert Bowen (q.v.), apparently resident at the time of compensation but with evidence that he and his family had been in England in the 1820s and early 1830s, with the baptism of a series of children at Chilcompton in the 1820s, the death of the eldest child of Joseph Robert Bowen in Somerset reported in 1825 and a Joseph Robert Bowen appearing in the pollbook for Chewton in 1832.
http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/rbowen.htm; The Times 08/04/1825; Ancestry.com, All UK, Poll Books and Electoral Registers, 1538-1893 [database online].
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£3,678 14s 7d
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£531 19s 1d
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£62 1s 1d
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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] - → Attorney
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1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Other
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1815 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Joint owner
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1817 [EA] - → Attorney
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1817 [EA] - → Attorney
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Husband → Wife
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Son → Father
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Samuel Dare pursued the award for Duckett Spring as assignee of J.R. Bowen and his wife Sabina '£1000...1793' This had presumably been a legacy to the...
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1774 - 1832
Head driver on Great Valley estate in Hanover, Jamaica. Executed by hanging following Sam Sharpe's War.
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.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Joseph Robert Bowen', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/16073/ [accessed 18th April 2024].
