Robert Crooks

Profile & Legacies Summary

1810 - ????

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Awarded the compensation for the Belmont estate with Thomas and William Crooks as joint tenants by devise under the will of James Crooks, although the compensation was clearly then intercepted by their mortgagee John Henry Noding (q.v.).

Robert Crooks (b. 1810) was a man of colour, and inherited Belmont on the death of his father in 1826.

Sources

Susan Elizabeth Craig-James, 'The Evolution of Tobago Society, 1838-1900', (unpublished PhD Thesis, LSE, University of London, 1995) p. 97.

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Relationships (1)

Robert Crooks

Natural Son → Father

James Crooks of Tobago

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People of Interest

Colin Campbell Lloyd (née Baillie)

1781 - 1830

Member of the Baillie of Dochfour family who had numerous mercantile connections in the West Indies. The compensation for Baillie's Bacolet in Grenada was awarded to the trustees of her marriage settlement. Grand-daughter of Colin Roy Campbell of Glenmure. Apparently a victim of the quack doctor John St John Lang of Harley Street in 1830.

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Documents of Interest

Windsor and Williamsfield Inventory of Slaves 1814 p8

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:
'Robert Crooks', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/44319 [accessed 25th April 2024].

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