Charles Beckford Long

Awarded the compensation for the Crescent estate in St Mary Jamaica as owner-in-fee, which came to him through his wife Frances Monro Tucker. 

1. Son of Edward Long of Chichester. Baptised Chichester 04/06/1771. Matriculated Christ Church Oxford 10/10/1789 aged 18, BA 1794, 'student until 1812', died 1836. Married Frances Monro Tucker St Marylebone 11/05/1795. Buried at Seal[e] Surrey 18/05/1836 aged 64 of Worthing. His son and heir Charles Edward Long (1796-1861) is in the DNB as 'genealogist and antiquarian', 'possessed of an ample fortune', and left effects under £10,000 at his death.

2. Will of Charles Beckford Long of [Langley Hall] Hampstead Norris, Berkshire proved 07/06//1836. In the will made in 1825, after legacies of £100 each to his brother Edward Beeston Long and the latter's son Henry Lawes Long, he left his entire estate to his son Charles Edward Long. In a codicil also of 1825 he left £100 each to his daughters Mary Henrietta and Caroline Elizabeth and son Robert Ballard Long as a token of his affection, 'as they are already amply provided for.' In further undated codicil he left £100 to Robert Sympson then residing at Brussels, regretting his inability to leave him more owing to 'the deplorable state of my affairs in Jamaica.'

T71/856 St Mary nos. 295 and 507.

1. Ancestry.com, England and Wales Christening Records, 1530-1906 [database online]; Ancestry.com, Oxford University Alumni, 1500-1886 [database online]; Ancestry.com, London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 [database online] (where her name is mistranscribed as Ducker); Ancestry.com, London, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-1980 [database online]; DNB; National Probate Calendar 1861.

2. PROB 11/1863/167.