Agnes Ann Leslie (née Lamond)

Profile & Legacies Summary

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Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Aberdeen absentee, awarded the compensation for the enslaved people on Castile Fort estate in Jamaica, widow of Hugh Leslie of Powis and the mother of Hugh Fraser Leslie (q.v.). According to an Aberdeen University website: "Some of the [compensation] money was used to pay off legal debts, but her eldest son, John Leslie, also used a substantial chunk of it to pay for Powis Gate, an ostentatious entrance to the family estate he was building in Old Aberdeen."

Sources

T71/864: claim from Agnes Ann Leslie, of North Britain, as owner; http://www.abdn.ac.uk/slavery/8p1.htm [accessed 26/09/2013]

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Maiden Name

Lamond

Spouse

Hugh Fraser Leslie

Children

Ten children including John (1791-1847) and Hugh Fraser (1802-1873)

Associated Claims (1)

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

1823 [EA] - 1835 [LA] → Owner

Castile Fort Pen [ Jamaica | Port Royal ]

Legacies Summary

Physical (1)

Gate

Powis Gates [Built]

Details

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Commissioned by her eldest son but apparently funded by the profits of slavery from estates in the hands of Agnes Ann Leslie. Currently part of the University of...