Margaret Ann Felsted

Awarded the compensation for three enslaved people in Kingston Jamaica. Identified as 'Great Britain' in the slave compensation records and probably the daughter of Margaret Mary Felsted and Samuel Felsted, but no trace of her has yet been found in Britain.  

1. Margaret MARY Felsted registered 13 enslaved people in Kingston in 1817; in 1829 three enslaved people were registered to her by her attorney Robert Smith. An inscription in the Old English Cemetery of Livorno reportedly shows 'Sacred to the Memory of Margaret Mary Felsted of Kingston Jamaica who died at Leghorn May 2nd 1833 aged 78 year [sic].'  

2. Samuel J Felstead aged 32 'Com apt.' [Commercial Appointment] born Spanish Town Jamaica, who was living in Haggerstone West, London in 1851, was the son of John Lawrence [sic] Felsted (died 7/1/1821 St Catherine) and Maria his wife (deceased by late 1818, presumably in childbirth). Will of John Laurence Felsted of St Catherine Jamaica proved 6/9/1821.

T71/863 Kingston no. 2209 Margaret Ann Felsted Great Britain.

1. Slave Registers 1817 Kingston E-H and 1829 Kingston P-S; http://leghornmerchants.wordpress.com/2010/05/08/jamaica/ accessed 28/7/2012. An unsourced note on the site dated March 2011 states that Margaret Mary Felsted nee Lawrence (1755-1833, born Kingston Jamaica) was the wife of 'the composer Samuel Felsted (1743-1802).'

2. 1851 census online; Data from Anglican Parish Registers, Civil Registration, and Dissenter Marriages E-K http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com accessed 28/7/2102; PROB 11/1648.