1804 - 25th Jun 1834
Slave-owner in Jamaica, apparently resident, first executor and then co-owner of Salt Pond Hut. His executors included Keith E. Fotheringham and Robert Fotheringham, possibly his brothers.
Freemason, Sussex Lodge, Kingston, Jamaica, initiated 11/07/1829 age 25, "merchant".
Memorial inscription to James Fotheringham in Kingston parish cemetery gives his date of death as 25/06/1834 aged 30. The same memorial gives the death of Keith Fotheringham 02/11/1847 aged 32.
Ancestry.com, England, United Grand Lodge of England Freemason Membership Registers, 1751-1921 [database online].
James Henry Lawrence-Archer, Monumental Inscriptions of the British West Indies (1875) p. 106.
We are grateful to Jim Brennan for his assistance with compiling this entry.
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1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Executor
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1832 [EA] - → Joint owner
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1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Executor
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1832 [EA] - → Lessee
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1826 [EA] - → Executor
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Testator → Executor
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1801 - 25th Nov 1880
English clergyman, resident in Jamaica from 1827 but returning to England with his Jamaican-born wife and children six years later.
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'James Fotheringham', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146640889 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
