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Robert Thomson

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1816

Biography

Robert Thomson, colonial officeholder on St Kitts, attorney (for the Madan and Stapleton families), and a slave-owner in his own right. He died in London.

  1. March 2nd [1816] [Death] at Charles Thomson's esq. Portland Place in his 78th year Robert Thomson, many years President of St Christopher's and acting Governor of the Leaward Islands.

Sources

J. R. V. Johnston, 'The Stapleton Sugar Plantations in the Leeward Islands', https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/api/datastream?publicationPid=uk-ac-man-scw:1m2890&datastreamId=POST-PEER-REVIEW-PUBLISHERS-DOCUMENT.PDF [accessed 22/12/2021].

  1. Gentleman's Magazine Vol. 86 (Jan-June 1816) part 1 p.372.

Further Information

Absentee?
Transatlantic
Children
Anne Dalzell

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
- 1816 [EY] → Owner
Dalzell's [ St Kitts | St Mary Cayon ]

Relationships (3)

Robert Thomson
Father → Daughter
Anne Dalzell Thomson
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Robert Thomson
Father-in-law → Son-in-law
Charles Thomson
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Notes →
Also probably uncle and...
Robert Thomson
Husband → Wife
Anne Thomson (née Dalzell)
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