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Merchant in Walsall, father of (and co-claimant with) Charles Haden Adams (q.v.). Their path to ownership of a single enslaved person in Trinidad is unclear. The enslaved person appears to have been Ben Hughes, a carpenter aged 42 whose birthplace is given as St Kitts, registered to Charles Adam and Son in 1834.
Ancestry.com, Slave Registers of former British Colonial Dependencies, 1812-1834 [database on-line], Trinidad 1834.
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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Spouse
Ann [Haden?]
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Children
Charles Haden Adams (1800-1881)
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Will
PROB 11/1854/350. Will of Charles Adams merchant of Walsall proved 29/12/1835. The will makes very precise arrangements for the transmission of monetary legacies of £1000 each to his five daughters and £2000 to his son Christopher John Haden, and of land and other real property in Walsall, but is silent on the enslaved person on Trinidad. |
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Occupation
Merchant
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£74 2s 6d
Awardee
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Father → Son
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Walsall, Staffordshire, West Midlands, England
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1781 - 14th Jun 1863
Member of the Baillie of Dochfour family. London and Bristol merchant and banker (Baillie, Ames & Baillie), major recipient of slave compensation across the Caribbean.
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Charles Adams', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/27858 [accessed 21st November 2024].
