UCL

Thomas Edbury

Profile & Legacies Summary

No Dates

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Resident slave-owner on Jamaica, reportedly from Linstead in England, and still active in Jamaica in 1851.


Sources

Thomas Edbury appeared as a vestryman in St Thomas-in-the-Vale in the Jamaica Almanac of 1851.'Thomas Edbury overseer' appeared also as one of the Jamaicans disembarking the John Robinson, which left Kingston in 19 September 1852 and reached Melbourne 18 February 1853, "JAMAICANS IN THE AUSTRALIAN GOLD RUSHES by Barry Higman, published in December 1976 in the Jamaica Journal Vol. 10 Nos. 2,3 & 4. [Reported on JamaicanFamilySearch by kind permission of Professor Higman, February 27, 2004] The list of names appeared in "The Falmouth Post" on Friday, September 24, 1852.

Associated Claims (1)

Jamaica St John 279 (Lemon Ridge and Friendship)
£2,184 12s 10d
Awardee
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Associated Estates (3)

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
1829 [EA] - → Lessee
Friendship [ Jamaica | St John ]
1834 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
Friendship [ Jamaica | St John ]
1826 [EA] - → Administrator
Unknown [ Jamaica | St John ]