1761 - 1796
Briefly (1790-1792) partner in Turnbull, Forbes (q.v.), dying in Surinam, where he had reportedly gone 'to collect debts', with an entry in the ODNB as 'political writer'.
R. C. Christie, ‘Christie, Thomas (1761–1796)’, rev. Alexander Du Toit, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5365, accessed 18 Sept 2015]
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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Spouse
Miss Thomson
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Oxford DNB Entry
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Commercial (1) |
Partner
Turnbull Forbes
West India merchant notes → Partner...
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Business partners
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1787 - 1835
Daughter of "free Mulatto" lodging-house-keeper Jane Charlotte Beckford (c. 1759-1825); possibly the daughter of George Ffrench, Clerk to the Jamaica Assembly. Spinster; independently wealthy slave-owner.
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:
'Thomas Christie', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146644197 [accessed 29th November 2024].
