UCL

Anna Kerr

Profile & Legacies Summary

1799 - ????

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

  1. Slave-owner in St James, Jamaica. In Britain c. 1820-1832. Possibly the Ann Kerr, age 52, born in Jamaica, widowed, living at 126 Warwick Street in Westminster in the census of 1851 with her daughter Euphemia Kerr, age 33, born Jamaica, and a female servant. A Euphemia Kerr, daughter of William and Ann Kerr, was baptised in St James, Jamaica, 03/04/1818.

  2. In 1861 Anne Kerr was living with her son William Mignot Kerr, Rector of Nevedon, at the Nevedon Rectory in Essex in 1861 while Euphemia was visiting friends in Bath. Anne Kerr, "physician's widow", was living with Euphemia and several boarders and a servant at 9 Oxford Road, Willesden, in 1871.

  3. The death notice of William Mignot Kerr in 1880 gives him as son of the late William Kerr, Esq, Welcome Estate, Jamaica.


Sources

  1. 1851 census online; familysearch.org batch no. I04151-6.

  2. 1861, 1871 censuses online.

  3. Ipswich Journal 28/09/1880.

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish
Spouse
William Kerr
Children
William Mignot (1816-1880), Euphemia (1818-)

Associated Claims (2)

Jamaica St James 269
£274 8s 10d
Awardee
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Jamaica St James 471
£210 4s 4d
Awardee
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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
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Unknown [ Jamaica | St James ]

Addresses (2)

126 Warwick Street, Westminster, London, Middlesex, London, England
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Nevendon Rectory, Nevendon, Essex, South-east England, England
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