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Daniel Chimenes, of Bordeaux, France, and Abigail Lair (his wife) counterclaimed for compensation for Mome Rouge Estate in Grenada under indentures of mortgage and ultimately under the will of James Lair, dated 18/04/1826, for £2060. Chimenes was an awardee for Abigail Lair is assumed to be a beneficiary. No marriage found so far for this couple.
T71/880 Grenada claim no. 467 (Mome Rouge Estate).
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Absentee?
'Foreign'?
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Maiden Name
Lair
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Spouse
Daniel Cimenes
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£600 6s 4d
Beneficiary (Mortgagee)
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The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:
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1834 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
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Wife → Husband
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Bordeaux, France
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1761 - ????
"Free quadroon woman" and mother of eleven children; independently wealthy, perhaps through legacies left her by her partners James Tierney (died 1784) and Ebenezer Robertson (died 1825).
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Abigail Chimenes (née Lair)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146631889 [accessed 26th December 2024].
