UCL

Elizabeth Darby

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1808

Biography

Widow of Nesbitt Darby (who did 1778), dying in Charlotte Street Fitzroy Square in January 1808. A daughter of Nesbitt Darby, and presumably of Elizabeth, named Dorothy married John Morton Jordan, a Virginia tobacco merchant in 1762; a second daughter Elizabeth married James Doig of Antigua.


Sources

Monthly Magazine Vol. 25 Feb. 1808 p. 74; More Monumental Inscriptions p. 6.

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish
Spouse
Nesbitt Darby
Children
Elizabeth; Mary

Associated Estates (2)

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
1817 [EA] - 1824 [LA] → Other
Cooks [ Antigua ]

The heirs of Mrs Elizabeth Darby were shown as lessors of enslaved people to the estate 1817-24.

- 1808 [EY] → Not known
Darby's Estate [ Antigua ]

Either owner or tenant-for-life of Darby's, the enslaved people from which were rented to William Henry Doig (q.v.).

Addresses (1)

Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, London, Middlesex, London, England
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