1768 - 30th Sep 1863
Rt Hon. Lord Sinclair, awarded compensation for enslaved people on Trout Hall and Chisholms Mammee Gully Pen in Clarendon, as owner-in-fee and tenant-for-life.
T71/859 Clarendon nos. 66 (Trout Hall, for which Sinclair claimed for 29 enslaved people as owner-in-fee, and the remainder as tenant-for-life) and 232; and T71/915 Clarendon no. 417.
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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Name in compensation records
Rt. Hon. Chas., Lord Sinclair
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Spouse
(1) Mary Agnes Chisholm[e] (2) Isabella Mary Chatto
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Children
With (1) James; Matthew; Charles; Susan. With (2) Eleanor; Jane Elizabeth; John
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£301 14s 0d
Awardee
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£573 1s 7d
Awardee
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£4,537 10s 5d
Awardee (Tenant-for-life)
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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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1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Joint owner
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Son-in-law → Father-in-law
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Father → Son
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Husband → Wife
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Father → Son
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Herdmanstoun House, Saltoun, Haddingtonshire (East Lothian), Central Scotland, Scotland
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Nesbit House, Berwickshire, Southern Scotland, Scotland
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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:
'Charles St Clair, 13th Lord Sinclair', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/21979 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
