UCL

Robert Sutton senior

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1848

Biography

London stockbroker, apparently investing in estates and enslaved people in Jamaica before Emancipation and in estates in Jamaica after Emancipation.

  1. Will of Robert Sutton of Rossway, Northchurch, Hertfordshire proved 16/12/1848. Under the will he left the specific properties to each of his sons, including (among other real estate) two estates in Jamaica (Leicester Fields and Perkham [?sp]) to his son Robert Sutton and his moiety of the Durham and Freeman Hall estates in Jamaica to his son William Henry Sutton.

Sources

  1. PROB 11/2085/178.

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish
Spouse
Married but no further details
Children
Robert jun.,; James

Associated Estates (1)

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
1832 [EA] - → Joint owner
Oldbury [ Jamaica | Manchester ]

Legacies Summary

Commercial (1)

Senior Partner
Robert Sutton & Co.
Stockbroker  
 
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Relationships (2)

Robert Sutton senior
Father → Son
Robert Sutton junior
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Robert Sutton senior
Father → Son
James Sutton
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Addresses (1)

Rossway, Northchurch, Hertfordshire, South-east England, England
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