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Colquhoun Grant

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1803

Biography

  1. Colquhoun Grant married Margaret Abernethie at St Margaret Lothbury, London, 28/01/1798.

  2. Will of Colquhoun Grant of [the Barracks, Island of Jamaica but now residing in] London [made in 1802] proved 17/03/1803. In the will he rehearsed his marriage settlement under which his estate was settled on him for life and then to secure an annuity of £500 p.a. for his wife, and then to their children. He had in 1801 mortgaged the estate [or his life interest] to Robert Telfer of Blue Mountain Valley Jamaica. He left his leasehold house in Upper Baker Street Portman Square to his wife Margaret, and monetary legacies to relatives in Scotland.


Sources

  1. Familysearch.org batch no. M02273-2.

  2. PROB 11/1388/153.

Further Information

Absentee?
Transatlantic
Spouse
Margaret Abernethie

Associated Estates (1)

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
1797 [EA] - 1800 [LA] → Tenant-for-life
Barrack's Pen [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey ]

Previously owner, he placed the estate in his marriage settlement retaining a life-interest.

Relationships (2)

Colquhoun Grant
Mortgagee → Mortgagor
Robert Telfer
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Colquhoun Grant
Other relatives
George Tritton
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George Tritton married Margaret, the widow of Colquhoun Grant, in...

Addresses (1)

Upper Baker Street, London, Middlesex, London, England
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