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Michael Fenn

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1825

Biography

  1. Michael Fenn was ‘owner’ of eleven enslaved people in St Thomas-in-the-East, Jamaica in 1817; nine people in 1920 (and follows Elizabeth Fleming [q.v.] in the Register); nine people in 1823, plus three ‘purchased’ (one from George William Hamilton, executor for the late Dr Poole (q.v.), and Alice Mills, registered in this parish by Elizabeth Fleming deceased in 1824).

  2. Michael Fenn was be identified as a planter in 1812, 1813 and 1815; as Admor. For the estate of the late John Joseph Kelly of St Thomas in the East in 1817; and as a storekeeper in 1817-1819.

  3. Michael Fenn Esq. of Bath was buried by J. Stainsby (q.v.) 28/03/1825.

  4. Michael Fenn bequeathed property including enslaved people to the formerly enslaved and recently freed woman Maria Verity, ‘mulatto’.

We are grateful to Steven Carter for his assistance in compiling this entry.


Sources

  1. T71/147 p. 236; T71/146 p. 120; T71/147 p. 107.

  2. Royal Gazette of Jamaica, 26/12/1812, p. 23; 29/05/1813, p. 10; 24/06/1815, p. 26; 19/07/ 1817, p. 25; 20/12/1817, p. 13; 03/01/1818, p. 6; 03/04/1819, p. 4.

  3. Family Search Jamaica, Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880, St Thomas in the East, Baptisms, marriages, burials 1817-1834, image 54, p. 103.

  4. T71/149 images 1103-1104.

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
1819 [EA] - 1824 [EY] → Owner
Unknown [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey ]