Mary Lady Viscountess Dudley and Ward (née Carver)

Mary nee Carver, owner of estates and enslaved people in Jamaica which under her will proved 19/06/1782 she left to her son William Ward (1750-1823) and then in trust for her grandson John William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley (q.v.). Administration of her will was granted in 1835 to John Benbow (q.v.). The estates were not named in the will of Mary Lady Viscountess Dudley and Ward but were almost certainly Whitney and Rymesbury in Clarendon and New Yarmouth in Vere. The John Carver of St George the Martyr whose will was proved 24/07/1724 bequeathed property and enslaved people in Jamaica to his son John Carver, and also named a daughter Mary Carver among his daughters (to each of whom he left £4000): this was presumably the father of Mary Lady Viscountess Dudley and Ward and the origin of her slave-ownership in Jamaica.

PROB 11/1091/319; will of John Carver of St George the Martyr PROB 11/598/396.