UCL

Robert Edie

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1825

Biography

Absentee slave-owner in Jamaica, owner of the Esher estate between 1817 and 1825, shown as of London in the 1823 registration while the 1826 registration was by the attorney for the assignees of Robert Edie and the 1829 registration was by the attorney for the assignees of Robert Edie deceased. These details indicate that Robert Edie was the merchant of London of Broad Street, partner in Edie, Laird and Edie, whom the London Gazette shows as bankrupt in 1824 and as dead by 1828, when his estate in the island of Jamaica was subject to a purchase offer. He was probably the man buried at St Mary Hampton 27/06/1825.


Sources

London Gazette, 17999 7 February 1824 p. 225; ibid, 18464 25 April 1828 p. 808.

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish

Associated Estates (2)

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
1819 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Owner
Esher Estate [ Jamaica | Hanover ]
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Lessee (Enslaved)
Unknown [ Jamaica | Hanover ]

Legacies Summary

Commercial (1)

Partner
Edie, Laird and Edie  
 
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Addresses (1)

Broad Street, City of London, Middlesex, London, England
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