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Mary Cooke (née Felsted)

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1843

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Mary Cooke was awarded the compensation for two enslaved people in Kingston Jamaica. Based on her identification as in Britain in the compensation award and description as Mary Cooke widow in the 1820 Slave Register, LBS has inferred that she was the Mary Cooke widow of Bethnal Green whose will (made in 1829 with a codicil of 1838, and proved 22/11/1843) shows her leaving her 'negro yard' in Kingston Jamaica together with several monetary legacies.


Sources

T71/863 Kingston no. 2208, Mary Cooke Great Britain. The registration was made on her behalf by Robert Smith her attorney in each of the years 1820, 1826 and 1832. Ancestry.com. Slave Registers of former British Colonial Dependencies, 1812-1834 [database online], 1820 Kingston P-S, 1826 Kingston A-B and P-S, 1832 Kingston P-S; PROB 11/1987/405. Anne M. Powers has transcribed her will at http://aparcelofribbons.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/59-Cooke-Will-of-Mary-Cooke-of-Bethnal-Green-1843.pdf [accessed 23/03/2020].

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish
Maiden Name
Felsted
Spouse
Stephen Cooke

Associated Claims (1)

Jamaica Kingston 2208
£40 2s 3d
Awardee
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Relationships (2)

Mary Cooke (née Felsted)
Testator → Legatee
Elizabeth Charity Drake (the younger)
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Mary Cooke (née Felsted)
Other relatives
Margaret Ann Felsted
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Notes →
The relationship between the two has not been established but their awards in Kingston were adjacent in number (2208 and 2209) and Margaret Mary Felsted (d. 1833) was a legatee of an annuity of £20...

Addresses (1)

Bethnal Green, London, London, London, England
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