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The beneficiaries of the compensation for Merryfield in St John Jamaica, John M. Tucker and his wife Mary, are conceivably John Millard Tucker the Bristol surveyor who was appointed Engineer to the Bristol and Exeter Railway and whose will [which is silent on Jamaica property] was proved 27/05/1850 and his wife, who was Mary Parker widow on her marriage to John Millard Tucker in 1825.
David Greenfield, 'I.K.Brunel and William Gravatt, 1826-1841: their professional and personal relationship', PhD thesis University of Portsmouth (2011) p. 64 in 1836. Tucker had applied for the post of County Surveyor of Somerset in 1818, when he stated that he had spent 11 years as principal clerk to the land surveyor and engineer William White; PROB 11/2113/403.
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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£328 11s 5d
Beneficiary
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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:
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1826 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Trust beneficiary
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Beneficiary of Trust → Trustee
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Husband → Wife
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Bristol, Gloucestershire, South-west England, England
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1791 - 1862
Free woman of colour; left Demerara in 1812 as a young woman and settled in Starthforth, Yorkshire, where she died in 1862.
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.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'John M. Tucker', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146642713 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
