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Mortgage-holder on Pusey Hall in Jamaica, banker of Lancaster, father of Henry Hargreaves and father-in-law of Richard Godson (each of whom q.v.).
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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Spouse
Married but no further details
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Children
Henry, Mary
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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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- 1804 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
In his will proved in 1822, John Pusey Edwardes made his legacies subject to the mortgage debt of the late James Hargreaves 'of Liverpool'. to whom was 'largely indebted' for his estates in Jamaica. Hargreaves' mortgage passed to his son Henry and his daughter Mary, who brought to her marriage with Richard Godson MP. |
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Country house
Springfield Hall, Lancaster [Built]
description → Springfield Hall, country house erected by James Hargreaves c. 1792. It passed to Henry Hargreaves and then to Richard Godson...
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Father → Son
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Father-in-law → Son-in-law
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Springfield Hall, Lancaster, Lancashire, North-west England, England
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1787 - 1835
Daughter of "free Mulatto" lodging-house-keeper Jane Charlotte Beckford (c. 1759-1825); possibly the daughter of George Ffrench, Clerk to the Jamaica Assembly. Spinster; independently wealthy slave-owner.
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 2022
CITING THIS RECORD:
'James Hargreaves of Springfield, Lancaster', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146653293 [accessed 25th June 2022].
