1801 - 3rd Nov 1895
London merchant, born in Barbados, the son of Eliezer Montefiore, and a partner with his brother Joseph Barrow Montefiore (q.v., under Joseph Montefiore). Their London firm failed in 1842.
The Montefiore brothers were active in the early colonisation of Australia. The partnership between Jacob Montefiore and Leslie Jacob Montefiore, trading under the style of Jacob Montefiore and Co., at Melbourne, Victoria, dissolved 01/06/1855.
Jacob Montefiore appears in all censuses between 1841 and 1891, (with his wife Justina between 1851 and 1881) living mainly in London, at [24] Tavistock Square, 7 Lower Belgrave Street, 12 Brunswick Square Hove, and most latterly at 35 Hyde Park Square. Their daughter Violet was born in Melbourne c. 1854. Montefiore died 03/11/1895 in London, effects £1843 6s resworn December 1896 at £2001 7s 2d.
T71/896 Barbados claim no. 1274.
London Gazette, Issue 21869, 05/05/1871, p. 2195.
1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881 and 1891 censuses online.
We are grateful for the help of Nikita Vanderbyl of La Trobe with this entry.
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Absentee?
British/Irish?
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Spouse
Justina
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Children
Leslie (1830-), Louisa (1835-), Sidney (1837-), Ada (1842-), Violet (1854-)
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£386 19s 1d
Awardee (Trustee)
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£514 12s 3d
Unsuccessful claimant (Trustee)
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Commercial (3) |
Name partner
Jacob and Joseph Montefiore
General overseas merchant? |
Railway Investment
London, Salisbury and Yeovil Junction (Basingstoke to Yeovil) [1846285]
£2000
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Director
Bank of Australasia
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Imperial (2) |
Colonization Commissioner
Australia: South Australia
notes → Member of the South Australian Colonisation Commission 1835-9...
sources → Australian Dictionary of Biography: entry for Jacob Barrow...
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Partner
Jacob Montefiore and Co. Australia: Victoria
notes → The partnership between Jacob Montefiore and Leslie Jacob Montefiore, trading under the style of Jacob Montefiore and Co., at Melbourne, Victoria, dissolved...
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Brothers
Notes →
If LBS's identification of Joseph Montefiore as Joseph Barrow Montefiore is a correct, then Jacob Montefiore was his...
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Brothers
Notes →
Tentative only. Moses Eliezer Montefiore was the brother of Jacob...
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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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12 Brunswick Square, Hove, Sussex, South-east England, England
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20 Chester Street, Grosvenor Place, London, Middlesex, London, England
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24 Tavistock Square, London, Middlesex, London, England
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35 Hyde Park Gardens, London, Middlesex, London, England
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7 Lower Belgrave Street, London, Middlesex, London, England
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98 Upper Kennington Lane, Lambeth, London, Surrey, London, England
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1781 - 1830
Member of the Baillie of Dochfour family who had numerous mercantile connections in the West Indies. The compensation for Baillie's Bacolet in Grenada was awarded to the trustees of her marriage settlement. Grand-daughter of Colin Roy Campbell of Glenmure. Apparently a victim of the quack doctor John St John Lang of Harley Street in 1830.
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.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'Jacob Montefiore', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/3235 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
