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William Holmes

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1839

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

  1. A William Holmes was deputy clerk of the court at Port of Spain in 1805 and recorded the investigation into the 'slave conspiracy' of that year.

  2. A tomb at Cedar Hill Estate near Princes Town, Trinidad, was erected in 1841 over the burial place of William and Ann Holmes. It is apparently one of only three graves in the Naparimas where slave owners are known to be buried.


Sources

  1. James Epstein, Scandal of Colonial Rule: Power and Subversion in the British Atlantic during the Age of Revolution (Cambridge, 2012), p. 228.

  2. A picture of the tomb is here.

Further Information

Absentee?
Spouse
Ann (?-1832)

Associated Claims (1)

Trinidad 1829A-C (Cedar Hill)
£874 0s 4d
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