1807 - 7th Oct 1852
Son of Rev. William Vaughan Hamilton, rector in St Catherine, Jamaica, in 1817. Approximate year of birth was 1807.
Shakespear Hamilton was a sea captain and harbour master who emigrated to the Swan River colony in the late 1830s.
He was related to an extensive network of slave owners, merchants and others, especially in Nevis and St Kitts. The fullest account is in Sandy McGie and Xavier Reader, 'Hamilton, Shakespear (1807–1852)', People Australia.
Ancestry.com, Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985 [database online].
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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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1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Trust beneficiary
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Son → Father
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Brother → Sister
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Brother → Sister
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Grandson → Grandfather
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1791 - 1862
Free woman of colour; left Demerara in 1812 as a young woman and settled in Starthforth, Yorkshire, where she died in 1862.
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 2023
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Shakespeare Hamilton', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146651193 [accessed 6th December 2023].
