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James Austin

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Biography

Owner of Shawbury Park in St Ann, Jamaica. Died between 1829 and 1831.

Further Information

Will

PROB 11/1826 - precis.

Proved in Jamaica 17/09/1831.

James Austin of St Ann, Jamaica.

All I die possessed of both real and personal to my dearly beloved son William Hazledine Austin subject to an annuity of of £100 sterling to my dear mother for her natural life.

My friends Thomas Jobson and John Higginbottom Esquires of St Ann, William Hazledine and his son John Hazledine Esquires of Shrewsbury in Shropshire, England, and Dr Samuel Betton of German Town in Pennsylvannia to be my executors.

Signed 24/01/1827.

Codicil dated 25/08/1829. To Miss Frances Harvey a free person of colour the house and lot of land situated at St Anns Bay and also a negro woman named Polly for and during her natural life and then to return to my son William Hazeldine.

Proved in London 22/01/1834 by the oath of William Hazledine. Proved in London 29/12/1836 by the oath of John Hazledine.

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
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Owner
Shawbury Park [ Jamaica | St Ann ]
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Previous owner
Shawbury Park [ Jamaica | St Ann ]
1817 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
Windsor [ Jamaica | St Ann ]

Relationships (2)

James Austin
Testator → Executor
John Higginbottom
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James Austin
Father → Son
William Hazledine Austin
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