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Mrs Anne James Pawson formerly Currell (née Collingwood)

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Biography

Owned of enslaved people sold to William Rhodes James on Haughton Tower Estate around 1817. Identified in the slave registers as of Great Britain. Widow of Curell or Currell of Jamaica. To date no will or death-notice has been found for her by LBS.

  1. Anne James Currell, a widow, married George Pawson at Morpeth Northumberland 07/02/1815.

Sources

Burke's Landed Gentry Vol. II, 'Pawson of Shawdon', which identifies her as the daughter of James [sic] Collingwood of Morpeth and widow of T. Currell of Jamaica. Genealogical material on Jamaica Family Search shows her as the daughter of Ann James and Francis Collingwood (d. 1776) and wife of Dr John Currell (d. 1795), 'Descendants of Richard James', http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/j/JamesRichard.htm.

  1. Ancestry.com, Anne James Currell in the England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 [database online].

Further Information

Absentee?
Transatlantic
Maiden Name
Collingwood
Spouse
(1) Currell of Jamaica (2) George Hargrave Pawson

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
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Other
Haughton Tower Estate [ Jamaica | Hanover ]

Relationships (1)

Mrs Anne James Pawson formerly Currell (née Collingwood)
Niece → Uncle
Thomas James
Details
Notes →
Tentative identification only of Thomas James the owner of Abingdon with the Thomas James known to be son of William Rhodes James I and brother of William Rhodes James...