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Mary Fearon

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1804

Biography

Given as Mary Peters Fearon in the Gentleman's Magazine announcement of her death in 1804. LBS has not traced her with certainty but she was possibly the widow of Thomas Peters Fearon I, the son of Thomas Fearon Chief Justice of Jamaica, whom he predeceased.

  1. Will of Mary Fearon widow [late of Clarendon Jamaica but now] of Manchester Square 26/04/1804. She left monetary legacies totalling £3000 to Thomas Bourke and Ann Lydia Bourke, and her 'plantations...slaves and hereditaments' to her sister Elizabeth Gordon for life and then to Edmund Fearon Bourke.

Sources

Gentleman's Magazine May 1804 p. 481. Her death-record also shows her as Mary Peters Fearon, Ancestry.com London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 for Mary Peters Fearon Westminster St Marylebone 1786-1812 [database online]

  1. PROB 11/1407/276

Further Information

Absentee?
Transatlantic
Spouse
Married but no further details

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
1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Previous owner
Oakes's [ Jamaica | Clarendon ]

The late Mary Fearon was shown as the owner of a group of enslaved people on Oakes between 1817 and 1832.

Relationships (2)

Mary Fearon
Sisters
Mrs Elizabeth Gordon of Manchester Square
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Mary Fearon of Manchester Square described her residuary devisee Elizabeth Gordon as her sister in her will proved 1804. LBS has not yet traced their family...
Mary Fearon
Daughter-in-law → Father-in-law
Thomas Fearon junior
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Speculatively inferred by...

Addresses (1)

Manchester Square, London, Middlesex, London, England
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