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Shown as 'Mrs Fraser' and owner of Schepmoed and Essendam & Sans Souci in Berbice, which she left to her children Capt. Charles Henry Fraser, Jane Agnes Wilhelmina (later Rich) and Charlotte Mary (later Woodford). The will of Catherine Fraser wife of Noordwijk Holland (of which administration was granted 31/12/1828) was the joint will of Benjamin Goldsmid Elliott of Batavia and Mrs Catherine Fraser, and appears unconnected.
Johanna Agnes Westrik married Charles Henry Fraser (Minister Plenipotentiary to the Circle of Lower Saxony in 1798) in Holland 26/06/1793.
Johanna Agnes Fraser died 12/02/1798. Her 'unexpected death' is announced by John Coleman (a secretary of the English residency at Hamburg) in a letter to George Hammond 13/02/1798.
We are grateful to Mathieu Ferradou for his assistance in compiling this entry.
PROB 11/1749/16.
https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/741826/64634_12.pdf [accessed 12/05/2017].
National Archives, Kew, FO 33/14 f. 66.
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Absentee?
'Foreign'?
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Maiden Name
Westrik
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Spouse
Charles Henry Fraser
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Children
Jane; Charlotte; Charles Henry
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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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1825 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Previous owner
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Joint owner
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1825 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Previous owner
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Mother → Son
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Mother → Daughter
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Mother → Daughter
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1810 - ????
Enslaved young woman in St Peter, Barbados. Manumitted on the eve of Emancipation. Married a butcher in Speightstown.
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:
'Mrs Johanna Agnes Fraser (née Westrik)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146652193 [accessed 3rd June 2023].
