1784 - 1817
Thomas Edward Dolmage acted as attorney on his father Adam Dolmage's estate The Villia in St. Catherine, Jamaica. He had a monumental inscription in Kingston Parish Churchyard which read 'THOS. EDWARD, SON OF ADAM & SARAH DOLMAGE, OF ST. CATHERINE PARISH, NAT. 2d FEB., 1784, OB. 4 AUGT., 1817.'
TNA, T71/1, Slave Register St. Catherine, Jamaica, p.27.
James Henry Lawrence-Archer, Monumental Inscriptions of the British West Indies, (1875), p.156.
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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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1817 [EA] - → Trustee
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1817 [EA] - → Attorney
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1817 [EA] - → Attorney
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1815 [EA] - 1817 [EY] → Joint owner
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1817 [EA] - → Previous owner
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Son → Father
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Son → Mother
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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.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'Thomas Edward Dolmage', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146632384/ [accessed 18th April 2024].
