1799 - 1886
Ethnologist, great-nephew and heir of Robert Gordon of St Vincent (q.v.), from whom he inherited the Spring estate.
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Absentee?
Transatlantic?
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£2,003 14s 11d
Unsuccessful claimant (consensual) (Owner-in-fee)
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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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1829 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Heir
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Objets
'The principal donor of ethnographical objects to the Ulster Museum in...
notes → Winifred Glover, In the wake of Captain Cook: the travels of Gordon Augustus Thomson (1799-1886)...
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Nephew → Uncle
Notes →
Gordon Augustus Thomson was the main beneficiary under the will of his uncle Robert Gordon of St...
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Brothers
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1810 - ????
Enslaved young woman in St Peter, Barbados. Manumitted on the eve of Emancipation. Married a butcher in Speightstown.
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:
'Gordon Augustus Thomson', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146642841 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
