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William Sandbach

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1829

Biography

Formerly in Grenada, then absentee slave-owner of Cheshire, owner of Resource estate in Grenada, which was rented out in the period of the Slave Registers.

  1. Will of William Sandbach of Tarvin Cheshire proved 10/04/1829. Under the will, which deals mainly with his property in England, he left the Resource estate on Grenada and the 'negroes, utensils..' on it to Samuel and William Sandbach, sons of his niece Mary Sandbach, the daughter of his brother John. The will of Samuel Sandbach of Tarvin, proved 19/11/1835, deals explicitly with the English property he inherited under the will of William Sandbach but is silent on property in Grenada.

  2. There is a Grade II tombchest for William Sandbach of Burton, formerly of Granada [sic] and five others, in the churchyard of St Andrew, Tarvin, Chester recorded by English Heritage.


Sources

T71/313 pp. 9-10.

  1. PROB 11/1754/406; PROB 11/1854.

  2. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-55758-tombchest-of-william-sandbach-and-others-#.VuFOKftFBdg[accessed 10/03/2016].

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish

Associated Estates (3)

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:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Owner
Resource Estate [ Grenada ]
1830 [SY] - 1830 [EY] → Previous owner
Resource Estate [ Grenada ]
1824 [EA] - → Owner
The Fountain [ Grenada | St Mark ]

Legacies Summary

Physical (1)

Monument
Tombchest for William Sandbach [Built] 
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Grade II listed tombchest dated 1829 for William Sandbach of Burton, formerly of Granada [sic] in the West Indies and five others, in the churchyard of St Andrews, Tarvin, Chester. ...

Addresses (1)

Tarvin, Cheshire, North-west England, England
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