Eleanor Crabb

Counterclaimed with her sister Penelope Ballard (q.v.) for the compensation for the enslaved people on Spring estate in Hanover Jamaica as annuitants. The compensation appears to have been paid into colonial court.

1. Letter from Penelope Ballard (late Crabb) and Eliz. [proabably Eleanor] Crabb, No. 6 Augusta Place, Clapham Road, Surrey: annuity of £50 pa settled...during the lives of his wife Mary Ann Barrett [=Basnett] and her niece Miss Penelope Raggatt afterwards Mrs Crabb, Mary Ann Barrett [= Basnett] and Mrs Penelope Crabb were 'our deceased [great] aunt and mother': 'The payments were very irregularly made in some years altogether withheld, the last payment was about the years 1819 or 1820.'

2. In 1841 Penelope Ballard aged 40 Ind and Eleanor Crabb aged 40 'Ind' were living at Augusta Place Kennington; in 1851 Penelope Ballard widow aged 60 'fundholder' born 'London City' was living at 16 Percy Place Kennington with sister Eleanor aged 50 also fundholder born 'London City.' Burial of Eleanor Crabb aged 68 of Percy Place Clapham Road at what became the West Norwood Cemetery 17/02/1855.

T71/872 Hanover no. 564.

1.T71/1608.

1. 1841 and 1851 censuses online; Ancestry.com, London, England, Deaths and Burials 1813-1980 [database online].