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Slave-owner and Crown and colony surveyor on St Vincent, dying in London in 1840.
March 28 [23?] [1827] [Marriage ] at St Vincent's [of] Joseph Billinghurst of Yapton Sussex to Miss Margaret Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Dr Alex. Melville sen. M.D. St Vincent's.
Joseph Billinghurst of St Vincent was listed as a subscriber to Charles Shephard's An Historical Account of the Island of Saint Vincent, published in 1832.
Feb. 6. [1840] At Beaumont-st. Portlandplace, [death of] Joseph Billinghurst, esq. of the island of St. Vincent.
Gentleman's Magazine Vol. 141 Part I (Jan.-June 1827) p. 557.
Charles Shephard, An Historical Account of the Island of Saint Vincent (1832) pp. vii-xii.
Gentleman's Magazine NS Vol. XIII Part I (Jan.-June 1840) p. 328.
Spouse
Margaret Elizabeth Melville
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£699 5s 2d
Awardee
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£265 17s 10d
Awardee
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1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Joseph Billinghurst owned enslaved people in New Edinburgh, a town in St Vincent. |
Beaumont Street, Portland Place, London, Middlesex, London, England
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Billinghurst died at Beaumont Street in 1840. It is not yet clear whether he had moved permanently to this address. |