1780 - 1828
Richard Clarke (sometimes given as Clark) Downer, previous owner of Lewis Manor in Berbice and of Lust-tot-Rust and Belle Vue (the latter two auctioned in 1832), born London c. 1780, then in Berbice and died at Marseilles aged 48 in 1828, 'late of Berbice'.
Annual Register Vol. 70 (1828),p. 228 'Deaths - March.
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Absentee?
Transatlantic?
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£9,412 5s 6d
Previous owner (not making a claim)
Belle Vue was identified (with Lust-tot-Rust) as the property of the late Richard Clarke Downer London Gazette18557 10/03/1829 p. 452, and the two estates were auctioned in 1832 London Gazette18943 08/06/1832 p. 1332.
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£17,204 19s 0d
Previous owner (not making a claim)
In 1819 the 314 enslaved people on Goldstone Hall were registered by William Fraser, the property of Richard Clarke Downer and William Fraser.
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£7,633 8s 1d
Previous owner (not making a claim)
Lust-tot-Rust was identified (with Belle Vue) as the property of the late Richard Clarke Downer London Gazette18557 10/03/1829 p. 452, and the two estates were auctioned in 1832 London Gazette18943 08/06/1832 p. 1332.
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£760 16s 6d
Previous owner (not making a claim)
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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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1825 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Joint owner
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1828 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Owner
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1831 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Previous owner
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1817 [EA] - 1828 [EY] → Joint owner
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1817 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Joint owner
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1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Joint owner
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1817 [EA] - → Joint owner
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1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Joint owner
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Brothers
Notes →
This is an inferred relationship from genealogical sources for each man giving parents as Richard and Mary Downer and baptisms at St Botolph Bishopsgate....
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Marseilles, France
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1781 - 1830
Member of the Baillie of Dochfour family who had numerous mercantile connections in the West Indies. The compensation for Baillie's Bacolet in Grenada was awarded to the trustees of her marriage settlement. Grand-daughter of Colin Roy Campbell of Glenmure. Apparently a victim of the quack doctor John St John Lang of Harley Street in 1830.
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.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'Richard Clarke Downer', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146631904 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
