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George Brown

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1844

Biography

Slave-owner of Jamaica, resident in the 1820s, but apparently selling out his enslaved people before the time of compensation and dying in Wales in 1844.

  1. Nov. 29 [1844] At Temby [sic] Pembrokeshire [death of] George Brown esq. of Crygyborion and formerly of Windsor Castle Jamaica.

  2. Will of George Brown [formerly of Windsor Castle in Jamaica but now of Great Crygyborion] Amroth Pembrokeshire proved 14/12/1844. After leaving personal effects among a local network, he left his residual estate to his housekeeper Mary Walker in recognition of her care of him: it is implied that she was in Wales, although whether she had arrived with him from Jamaica is not clear.


Sources

  1. Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 177 (Jan 1845) p. 111.

  2. PROB 11/2008/196.

Further Information

Absentee?
Transatlantic

Associated Estates (4)

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
1817 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Owner
Brown's Hall [ Jamaica | St David ]
1817 [EA] - → Executor
Mount Clear [ Jamaica | St David ]
1817 [EA] - → Trustee and Executor
Orange Grove [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey ]
1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Joint owner
Windsor Castle Estate [ Jamaica | St David ]

Addresses (1)

Great Crygyborion, Amroth, Pembrokehsire, South Wales, Wales
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