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Awarded the compensation for Pan's lodge in Manchester as owner-in-fee 'by survivorship'. Married William Kellett Hewitt (q.v.) in 1837.
William Kellett Hewitt widower of 52 George Street son of William Hewitt gentleman married Sophia Scarlett Ashman, daughter of Ralph Ashman surgeon, of the same address 31/08/1837 St Mary Bryanston Square.
Daughter of Richard Ashman, owner of Pan's Lodge, and his wife Elizabeth Jane. Baptised in Bristol 13/12/1818 at the same time as her sister Barbara Boucher Ashman.
T71/860 Manchester claim no. 177.
Ancestry.com, London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 [database online].
Familysearch.org batch no. I04146-6.
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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£916 11s 4d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
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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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1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
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1826 [EA] - → Trust beneficiary
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Daughter → Father
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Daughter → Mother
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Sisters
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Wife → Husband
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Other relatives
Notes →
Either father-in-law and daughter-in-law or (more likely) William Kellett Hewitt senior was the grandfather of Sophia Scarlett's husband William Kellett Hewitt...
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Either mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, although more likely Deborah Hewitt was the grandmother of Sophia Scarlett's husband William Kellett Hewitt...
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52 George Street, Portman Square, London, Middlesex, London, England
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1761 - ????
"Free quadroon woman" and mother of eleven children; independently wealthy, perhaps through legacies left her by her partners James Tierney (died 1784) and Ebenezer Robertson (died 1825).
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.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Sophia Scarlett Ashman', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/22024 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
