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Barbados-based partner with his brothers Howard and William in John Heyes & Co. (q.v.) of Liverpool. His son James Bovell (1819-1880) has an entry in the Canadian Dictionary of National Biography (which describes John as a banker) as physician, theologian, Church of England clergyman and educator.
T71/896 Barbados claim no. 1558; T71/898 Barbados claim no. 3970 (Cambridge); T71/900 Barbados claim no. 5178 (Oxford).
Claude E. Dolman, 'James Bovell, 1819-1880' in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online, http://www.biographi.ca/EN/009004-119.01-e.php?id_nbr=4852 [accessed 10/08/2012].
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Spouse
Married but no further details
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Children
James, John, Howard, William
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Occupation
West India merchant
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£567 0s 10d
Awardee (Executor or executrix)
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£2,462 7s 5d
Awardee
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£2,122 10s 10d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
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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:
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1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
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1823 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
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1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Executor
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1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Other
Following Elizabeth Bovell's death, John Bovell was her executor: see notes on the associated claim. |
Commercial (1) |
Other partner
John Heyes
West India merchant |
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Father → Son
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Brothers
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Brothers
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1761 - ????
"Free quadroon woman" and mother of eleven children; independently wealthy, perhaps through legacies left her by her partners James Tierney (died 1784) and Ebenezer Robertson (died 1825).
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.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'John Bovell', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/4298 [accessed 23rd November 2024].
