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Originally of Dumfries, resident manager on Golden Grove and the awardee of a number small claims in his own name as well as co-awardee of a larger claim as one of the Directors of the Bath of St Thomas the Apostle, all in St Thomas-in-the-East. His suicide in 1848 was a symptom of the pressure on the West Indian sugar-economy following the equalisation of sugar duties from 1846, which of course primarily drove down the living standards of the formerly enslaved Africans.
Eric J. Graham, 'The Journal of Alexander Innes of Banffshire in Jamaica 1823-1824', Scottish Local History Issue 93 Winter 2015-2106, pp. 31-35, at p.35.
W. A. Green, British Slave Emancipation, pp. 237-8, which describes McCormick as a 'popular resident of forty years.'
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Name in compensation records
Thomas M'Cornock
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£26 12s 2d
Awardee
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£114 12s 6d
Awardee
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£39 8s 5d
Awardee
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£66 0s 8d
Awardee
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£26 12s 2d
Awardee
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£12 16s 2d
Awardee
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£82 2s 8d
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£417 19s 9d
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£784 8s 4d
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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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1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
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1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
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1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
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1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
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1832 [EA] - → Attorney
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1828 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Owner
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1787 - 1835
Daughter of "free Mulatto" lodging-house-keeper Jane Charlotte Beckford (c. 1759-1825); possibly the daughter of George Ffrench, Clerk to the Jamaica Assembly. Spinster; independently wealthy slave-owner.
The Buff Bay plantation was a sugar estate next to the Buff Bay River, south of Charlestown in Jamaica. By 1839, the estate was 840 acres.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2023
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Thomas McCornock', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/24516 [accessed 28th May 2023].
