George Harriott Wardale

Profile & Legacies Summary

1807 - 1^st Mar 1878

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

London merchant, born Jamaica c. 1807. Given as G.H. Wardale in the Parliamentary Papers and as G. Harriott Wardale in the Register of Claims. Baptised Kingston, Jamaica 1807; parents not named, though George Stovin Wardale and Ann Laing Harriott [after corrections] were the parents of Francis Wardale in Kingston in 1816. After the death of his father he inherited enslaved people in Jamaica between 1829 and 1832. He married Eliza Tourner in Bromley in 1829, and has been located in all Censuses from 1841 to 1871.

1871 census shows George Harriott Wardale 'Chief Clerk in a manufactory' aged 64 born Jamaica living at 12 Stonebridge Villas Lewisham with his wife Eliza also aged 64 and two daughters Ann Eliza 23 and Lucy '10' [sic: either she was older or she was a grand-daughter]; death of George Harriott Wardale aged 71 registered Q1 1878 Lewisham; will of George Harriott Wardale late of 12 Stonebridge Villas proved 23/03/1878, effects under £2000. Geo. Harriott Wardale & co., Italian warehousemen 15 Garlick Hill.
A group of enslaved people were registered by George Harriott in 1832 as executor of George Steven [or Stovin] Wardale: for a number of those on the list a note says 'Returned by George Harriott Wardale... By heirship.'

We are grateful to David Barker for his assistance in compiling this entry.

Sources

PP 1837-8 Vol. 48 (215) p. 293 Manchester No. 253; T71/860 Manchester No. 253. Jamaica, C of E Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1879; Jamaica Slave Register, Manchester, 1832; England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973; England Census online, 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871.

1871 census online; FreeUKGen, England and Wales Free BMD Database, Deaths, 1837-1983 [database online]; National Probate Calendar 1878; the children (other than Lucy) are from Ancestry.com, London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906 [database online]: one must be missing before Henry Septimus; P.O. London Directory 1838.
Ancestry.com, Slave Registers of former British Colonial Dependencies, 1812-1834 [database online], 1832, Manchester.

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Name in compensation records

G.H. Wardale

Spouse

Eliza

Children

George Sammons (1830-), Charles Bradford (1832-), Edward Roper (1835-), John Harriott (1837-), Arthur Tourace (1839-), Henry Septimus (1841-), William Octavius (1843-), Alfred Augustus (1846-), Ann Eliza (1847-), Lucy [?]

Associated Claims (2)

Associated Estates (1)

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