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Slave-owner on Barbados, a British soldier who married Mary Ann Straker and through her gained possession of what became Vaucluse/Yorkshire Hall and the enslaved people attached to it subject to considerable encumbrances.
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Absentee?
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Spouse
Mary Ann Straker
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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:
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1795 [EA] - 1808 [LA] → Owner
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Husband → Wife
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Son-in-law → Father-in-law
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1785 - 1854
Jamaican-born widow of a prominent slave-owner; resident in Britain following the death of her husband in 1818. Accused - and acquitted - of the cruel treatment of some enslaved people whom she brought to Britain with her.
The Buff Bay plantation was a sugar estate next to the Buff Bay River, south of Charlestown in Jamaica. By 1839, the estate was 840 acres.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2022
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Hugh Dalrymple', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146649239 [accessed 2nd October 2022].
