Hon. John Salmon

1774 - 1857

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Returnee from Jamaica, awarded the compensation for Knockpatrick in Manchester and Grosmont Pen in St Elizabeth as Commissioner of Munro & Dickenson Charity, and almost certainly the same man as the awardee for the enslaved people on New Savannah in St Elizabeth. He was also probably the awardee for Mount Olivet, although his son John Salmon jun. was shown as the mortgagee of this estate in 1832, while the trustee of The Cruse in Westmoreland was very probably the son, John Salmon jun. After a period of residence in Britain, the Hon. John Salmon returned to Jamaica and died there in 1857.

  1. John Salmon was in Britain from the time of compensation; he signed at the National Debt Office for the compensation for New Savannah and The Cruse, and received letters in late 1837 at Thornbury in Gloucestershire, where he was presumably connected with the family of Edward Salmon, General Practitioner, born Jamaica c.1778, who lived at Silver Street Thornbury in 1841, 1851 and 1861.

  2. In 1851 John Salmon aged 77 born Somersetshire 'Landed proprietor' was living at Alveston Gloucestershire with his wife Elizabeth aged 72 born Jamaica. In 1841 aged 65 Ind., he was living at The Firs, or old farmhouse, Alveston with his wife Elizabeth aged 60 and with Richard Honnywill aged 70. Alveston is a mile away from Thornbury.

  3. Will of John Salmon [late of Alveston Gloucestershire but at present residing in the parish of St Elizabeth, and county of Cornwall, island] of Jamaica proved 12/12/1857. In the will he left two cottages at Alveston that he had bought of Samuel Peach Peach to Hannah Staine, spinster, as acknowledgement of her long service to Salmon and his late wife. He was possessed of No.1 Wellington Place, Clifton under a mortgage (presumably as mortgagee-in-possession), and left the rents to his grand-daughter Frances Charlotte Bush of Clifton, wife of Edward Bush. He left £1000 to which he was the contingent remainderman in trust with solicitors in Chippenham for his son John Salmon to lay out in the cultivation of his [the testator's] Union [?] estate in St Elizabeth. He left his Vauxhall estate in St Elizabeth in trust for the benefit of the female branches of the family of his grandson John Stokes Salmon. His residuary heir was his son John Salmon (q.v., under John Salmon junior).


Sources

T71/860 Manchester no. 95; T71/870 St Elizabeth nos. 2, 208 and 617; T71/871 Westmoreland no. 484.

  1. NDO8; T71/1594 pp. 105 and 148 Commissioners to John Salmon P.O. Thornbury 02/08/18137; 03/11/1837 and 01/12/1837.

  2. 1841 and 1851 censuses online.

  3. PROB 11/2262.

We are grateful to Rosemary King for her assistance with compiling this entry.


Further Information

Absentee?
Transatlantic
Spouse
Elizabeth
Children
John

Associated Claims (4)

£5,509 17s 11d
Awardee (Trustee)
£1,322 19s 0d
Awardee (Trustee)
£1,990 13s 0d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
£2,201 3s 5d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)

Associated Estates (7)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1839 [EA] - → Not known
1809 [EA] - 1827 [LA] → Owner
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Attorney

Relationships (3)

Father → Son
Other relatives
Notes →
The two men are clearly connected given their respective links to Alveston and Thornbury in Gloucestershire, but the precise relationship has not yet been established by LBS. It appears likely that...
Other relatives
Notes →
The two men are clearly connected given their respective links to Alveston and Thornbury in Gloucestershire, but the precise relationship has not yet been established by LBS. It appears likely that...

Addresses (1)

Alveston, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, South-west England, England