Ann Jackson Rosco

Slave-owner in Antigua from at least 1817.

1. Ann Jackson Rosco, daughter of James and Lydia Rosco, baptised 28/08/1763 in Bristol, England. Siblings Lydia Mary and Mary Ann were baptised in the same place in 1764 and 1767. James Rosco was deceased by 1796 when a son, Richard Rosco, was admitted to the Middle Temple.

2. Ann Rosco, daughter of Lydia Rosco, was one of the beneficiaries in the will of her great-aunt Sarah Watkins, widow of Samuel Watkins, written and proved in 1791. Ann was to inherit Sarah Watkins's house and one-third of her residuary estate (with her mother Lydia and brother Richard).

3. Miss Ann Jackson Rosco of Antigua was bequeathed £50 in the will of her sister-in-law Henrietta Rosco, widow of Upper Harley Street, written in 1843 and proved in 1851.

1. Ancestry.com, Bristol, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 [database online]; Register of Admissions to the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple (1949) vol II p. 414.

2. Vere Langford Oliver, The History of the island of Antigua ... from the first settlement in 1635 to the present time (3 vols., London, Mitchell and Hughes, 1894-99), Vol. 3 p. 204.

3. PROB 11/2141/131.

We are grateful to Peter Birkett for his assistance with compiling this entry.