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Attorney-General in Jamaica from 1743, dying by 1751. A Robert Penny was listed in the Jamaican Quit Rent books for 1754 as the owner of 1200 acres of land in Westmoreland.
Cheshire Archives, DCH/O/74; "A List of landholders in the Island of Jamaica together with the number of acres each person possessed taken from the quit rent books in the year 1754", TNA CO 142/31 transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples2/1754lead.htm
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Edward Trelawn[e]y in 1751 married Catherine Penny, given in the History Parliament as the widow of Robert Penny the Attorney-General and in other secondary sources as the sister of Robert Penny. ...
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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.
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:
'Robert Penny', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146657671 [accessed 19th November 2024].
