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Robert Mothersill

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Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Awarded the compensation for the enslaved people on Pleasant Hill in St Andrew Jamaica as owner-in-fee. Probably resident and hence probably not the Robert Mothersill of Kildare Ireland with whom the Commissioners of Slave Compensation wrote in 1835.


Sources

T71/865 Robert Mothersell (sic) owner-in-fee. T71/1607 letter from G&JBrown 5 Barge Yard Bucklersbury: Messrs G&JBuchanan of Glasgow inform us that their partner Robert McAdam who lately arrived from Jamaica has power of attorney from Robert Mothersell of that Island, implying that Mothersell was resident. T71/1592 p.96 13/1/1835 letter from Commissioners of Compensation to Robt Mothersill Esq. Kildare Ireland. Robert Mothersill was Ensign in the St Andrew militia 1824 Jamaica Almanac.

Further Information

Absentee?
Name in compensation records
Robert Mothersell

Associated Claims (1)

Jamaica St Andrew 161 (Pleasant Hill)
£1,225 8s 0d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
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
1819 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
Pleasant Hill [ Jamaica | St Andrew ]