???? - 1821
Liverpool merchant, and slave-owner and mortgagee on St Lucia, with one slaving voyage from Liverpool (to French Guiana) as co-investor with Thomas Rigby (q.v.) in 1805. His will was proved in Chester Feb. 1821, and has not yet been read by LBS. His son John Hammill was a magistrate in London with an obituary in the Annual Register for 1860. His widow Hannah Hammill appears as claimant and awardee of compensation in the 1830s.
Ancestry.com, UK, Extracted Probate Records, 1269-1975 Cheshire and Lancashire: - Wills and Administrations, 1821-1825 [database online]; Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database; Annual Register Vol. 27 (1860) pp. 443-445.
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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Spouse
Hannah Tomlinson
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Children
John
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Deceased Husband → Widow
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Liverpool, Lancashire, North-west England, England
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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:
'Martin Hammill', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146655005 [accessed 21st November 2024].
