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London West India merchant and slave-owner on Antigua, son of Richard Oliver (d. 1716), father of Thomas Oliver of Mark Lane (q.v.) and uncle of Richard Oliver Alderman and MP (q.v.), whom he took into his business in London.
Vere Langford Oliver, History of Antigua Vol. II p. 318; https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/bk4/pp11-22 [accessed 22/12/2020].
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Absentee?
Transatlantic
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Spouse
Mary Langford
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Children
Thomas, Elizabeth, Mary
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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:
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1756 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
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Brother-in-laws
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Bayer Otto Baijer's wife Frances was the half-sister of Richard Oliver of Antigua and...
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Uncle → Nephew
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Also business partners and father-in-law and son-in-law...
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Great House, Leyton, Essex, South-east England, England
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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:
'Richard Oliver of Antigua and Leyton', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146666745 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
