Charles Edward Lewis

???? - 1800


Biography

One of three co-investors with John Deffell and Thomas Nevill (both of whom q.v.) in a group of estates and enslaved people in Jamaica in the mid-1790s: Thomas Nevill's will identified this man as Charles Edward Lewis late of Powis Place.

  1. Will of Charles Edward Lewis of West Molesey Surrey proved 26/05/1800. The will is simple, leaving an annuity of £100 p.a. to the wife of his brother James Lewis of Powis Place, and the rest of his unspecified estate to James Lewis.

  2. His brother and heir James Lewis was the architect, who died at Powis Place in 1820.


Sources

  1. PROB 11/1342/251

  2. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-project/streets/powis_place.htm [accessed 05/05/2017].


Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish

Associated Estates (3)

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
Joint owner

Shown in the will of Thomas Nevill as a co-purchaser of the estate, which was then assigned to John Deffell, in whose name it appears.

Joint owner

Shown in the will of Thomas Nevill as a co-purchaser of the estate, which was then assigned to John Deffell, in whose name it appears.

Joint owner

Shown in the will of Thomas Nevill as a co-purchaser of the estate, which was then assigned to John Deffell, in whose name it appears.


Relationships (3)

Business associates
Business associates
Brothers

Addresses (2)

West Molesey, Surrey, South-east England, England
Powis Place, London, Middlesex, London, England