Edward Rodon Huggins

Awarded the compensation for nineteen enslaved people in St Catherine Jamaica.

1. Probable baptism: Edward Rhoden/Rhodon Huggins, son of Robert and Elizabeth Huggins, baptised at St John's Chapel, Portsea St Mary, Hampshire, 14/02/1790.

2. Edward Rodon Huggins married Emily Parkenham Yates at Gosport, Hampshire by licence 16/12/1830, both were of this parish.

3. Edward Rodon Huggins of Laira Green, Plymouth, was buried 24/09/1842 at Charles the Martyr, Plymouth, 24/09/1842 aged 53 years. Will of Edward Rodon Huggins Purser in the Royal Navy of Laira Green near Plymouth proved 31/10/1842.

4. Emily Pakenham Huggins of Greenwich Hospital was buried aged 56 21/3/1845 at St Alphege Greenwich.

T71/852 St Catherine no. 293. Edward Rodon Huggins England owner. T71/1606 letters from Emily Pakenham Huggins Lipson near Plymouth [Devon] re this claim 'due to my husband': Edward Rodon Huggins was Purser of the Andromache [04/09/1835], a small West India proprietor on the East India station, with Lord Napier on the expedition to China. '... the task of bringing to a settlement his affairs in Jamaica devolves to me.'  Letters to Elizabeth Huggins T71/1592 p. 232  and 236.

1. Findmypast.co.uk, Hampshire Baptisms [database online].

2. Findmypast.co.uk, Hampshire, Portsmouth Marriages [database online].

3. Findmypast.co.uk, Hampshire Burials [database online]; PROB 11/1969.

4. Ancestry.com, London, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-1980 [database online].Genealogical sources suggest she was née Yates, a member of the Alverstoke family heavily connected with Jamaica.

We are grateful to Peter Selley for his assistance with compiling this entry.