23rd Sep 1805 - ????
Son of Rodolphus Buchanan and his wife Ann nee Scott. Co-heir of Reading and Plumb estates in St James from his uncle Walter Scott. Born 23/09/1805 and baptised 28/04/1806 in St Augustine-the-Less, Bristol, England. His father was a Captain in the 13th Light Dragoons and served in the Napoleonic Wars.
Magistrate in St James in 1857 and Commissioner of the Peace in St James in 1869.
Ancestry.com, UK, Military Campaign Medal and Award Rolls, 1793-1949 [database online]; Familysearch.org batch no. C01086-5.
http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/glean25.htm and http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/glean25.htm.
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Name in compensation records
Rodolph W. Buchanan
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£3,421 9s 6d
Awardee
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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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1833 [SY] - 1839 [LA] → Joint owner
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First Cousins
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Nephew → Uncle
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Nephew → Uncle
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Bristol, Gloucestershire, South-west England, England
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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.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'Rodolphus Walter Buchanan', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/43284/ [accessed 19th April 2024].
