1652 - 1733
London merchant and colonial trader with significant involvement in early trade with Jamaica, where at least two of his brothers were based. He appears not to have owned land or enslaved people there, and reportedly his brothers sold their own such interests on their return to Britain.
Nuala Zahedieh, 'An open elite? Colonial commerce, the country house and the case of Sir Gilbert Heathcote and Normanton Hall', in Madge Dresser and Andrew Hann (eds.) Slavery and the British Country House pp. 69-77.
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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Spouse
Married but no further details
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Country house
Normanton Hall [Built]
description → Built by Sir Gilbert Heathcote, who had purchased the Normanton estate in 1729 at the age of 79. The house was demolished in...
notes → Nuala Zahedieh, 'An open elite? Colonial commerce, the country house and the case of Sir Gilbert Heathcote and Normanton Hall', in Madge Dresser and Andrew Hann (eds.) Slavery and the British...
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Brothers
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Brothers
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???? - 29th Aug 1873
Free person of colour, slave-owner in Jamaica. Long-term partner and later wife of Thomas Legal Yates. Living in Britain from the mid-1830s until her death in 1873.
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'Sir Gilbert Heathcote', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146652093 [accessed 29th November 2024].
