UCL

Henry Burger

Profile & Legacies Summary

No Dates

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Awarded the compensation for the enslaved people on Mannheim estate in St David Jamaica. Although described as an absentee in the Register of Claims, no trace of him has been found to date in Britain. He appears to have been in Jamaica in the mid-1820s.


Sources

T71/866 St David claim no. 124; e.g. Curtis's Botanical Magazine Vol. 58 p. 3092 refers to him as 'a very intelligent planter in St David's mountains' in the context of a description of efforts to introduce Arracacha to Jamaica, delivered in 1825.

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish

Associated Claims (1)

Jamaica St David 124 (Manheim Plantation)
£2,155 2s 6d
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
1811 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
Manheim Plantation [ Jamaica | St David ]