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James Muir

Profile & Legacies Summary

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Biography

Slave-owner in Port Royal Jamaica. After 1820, attorneys for James Muir made the returns for his Chesterfield estate, implying potentially that he was an absentee, but he has not yet been further traced.


Sources

A James Muir, 'the son of a Jamaica merchant of the same name' began his studies at University of Glasgow in 1819, https://universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH25630&type=P [accessed 30/09/2019].

Associated Estates (3)

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
1806 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Owner
Chesterfield [ Jamaica | Port Royal ]
1823 [EA] - → Other
Unknown [hired to Chesterfield?] [ Jamaica | Port Royal ]
1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Guardian
Unknown [hired to Chesterfield?] [ Jamaica | Port Royal ]

Relationships (1)

James Muir
Guardian → Ward
Jane Muir
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Probably father and...