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Solicitor and representative of Catherine Scrafton (q.v.).
Identified as solicitor in White's Directory 1840.
The National Probate Calendar shows that the will of a James Raper Highmoor late of Ainderby Quernow who died 15/11/1876 (effects under £4000) was proved by Margaret Highmoor the widow and James Raper Highmoor gentleman the son, but the deceased may himself be the son of the James Raper Highmoor in the compensation records.
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/NRY/Pickhill/Pickhill40Dry.html [accessed 30/12/2010].
National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1861-1941 1877.
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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Name in compensation records
Jas. Raper Highmoor
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Occupation
Lawyer
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£8,304 0s 0d
Awardee (Executor or executrix)
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Ainderby Quernhow, Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England
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1787 - 1861
Enslaved boy on Unity Valley Pen, Jamaica. Manumitted in 1795 by David Barclay and removed to Philadelphia, with 29 other freed persons from the estate, where he was placed under the care of Society for Improving the Condition of Free Blacks.
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:
'James Raper Highmoor', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/44446/ [accessed 23rd April 2024].
