UCL

William Loch or Lock

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1811

Biography

  1. 'William Loch.......spent many years in Westmoreland, Jamaica. By 1809, he returned to Scotland to live as a wealthy absentee in Lanarkshire whilst his mulatto son, Robert Loch, supervised his plantation, Smithfield, in his absence. Before he died in Linthouse, Scotland in August 1811, William Loch appointed executors in Jamaica and D&J Connell, merchants of Glasgow, to dispose of his Smithfield estate in Westmoreland. The trusted executors disposed of his real and personal estate ‘to the best advantage’ which resulted in £5700 sterling being divided up amongst family in Scotland and his two ‘reputed’ 'mulatto' children in Jamaica.'

Sources

  1. Stephen Mullen, Glasgow’s Sugar Aristocracy in the British-Atlantic World, 1776-1838 [MS].

Further Information

Absentee?
Transatlantic

Associated Estates (1)

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
1810 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Owner
Smithfield [ Jamaica | Westmoreland ]

Addresses (1)

Linthouse, Lanarkshire, Central Scotland, Scotland
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