1817 - 1861
First husband of Mary Anne Broome (nee Stewart) (q.v.). Educated at R.M.A. Woolwich he entered the Royal Artillery in 1834. He served in the Crimea and during the Indian Rebellion of 1857/58, as Brigadier Commanding the Royal Artillery in Bengal during the capture of Lucknow and also Birwa. He died at Simla in 1861 of chronic dysentery and disease of the liver.
Times of India, 14/8/1861.
C.E. Buckland, I.C.S. Dictionary of Indian Biography (London, 1906), p. 27.
We are grateful to Peter Schofield for his assistance with compiling this entry.
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Spouse
Mary Anne Stewart
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Occupation
Soldier
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Husband → Wife
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1787 - 1861
Enslaved boy on Unity Valley Pen, Jamaica. Manumitted in 1795 by David Barclay and removed to Philadelphia, with 29 other freed persons from the estate, where he was placed under the care of Society for Improving the Condition of Free Blacks.
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:
'Colonel Sir George Robert Barker', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146643729 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
