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Awarded part of the compensation for the Anns Grove and Two Friends plantations[s] in British Guiana with James Manning and Bryan Holme (q.v.), probably as trustees for members of the Sutton and Rogers families. Bryan Holme was certainly a London solicitor: Manning and Watson have yet to be identified. 'Heaphy' may be a mistranscription. In the will of James Henry Watson of Knightsbridge Green proved 21/06/1854 he left the bulk of his property to his grand-daughter, the daughter of his late daughter Susannah Elizabeth Rogers, although no relationship has been established to the free people of colour in the Rogers family of Demerara.
British Guiana no. 576A-D. PROB 11/2194/57.
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Absentee?
British/Irish?
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£21,109 18s 8d
Awardee (Trustee)
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???? - 29th Aug 1873
Free person of colour, slave-owner in Jamaica. Long-term partner and later wife of Thomas Legal Yates. Living in Britain from the mid-1830s until her death in 1873.
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 Heaphy Watson', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/45411 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
