1792 - 1876
Dutch merchant, son of Anna Catherina Boode and her first husband Johan Cornelis Bert, awarded with other heirs of his mother the compensation for the enslaved people on Cornelia Ida in British Guiana.
'Johan Frederick Boode et ses descendants': par B.J. Buma et le jonkheer D.W. Sickinghe. in De Nederlandsche Leeuw : maandblad van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Genootschap voor Geslacht- en Wapenkunde (1964) pp. 156-211 (pp. 169-70).
We are grateful for the help of Paul Koulen with his entry.
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Absentee?
'Foreign'
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Name in compensation records
Cornelis Christiana Hendrick Bert
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Spouse
Frederica Lyssow
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Occupation
Merchant
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£10,508 13s 10d
Awardee
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Brother → Sister
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Brothers
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1774 - 1832
Head driver on Great Valley estate in Hanover, Jamaica. Executed by hanging following Sam Sharpe's War.
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:
'Cornelis Christian Hendrick Bert', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/41807 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
