Robert Belcher

Awarded part of the compensation for the enslaved people on Plantation Everton in British Guiana.

1. Marriage of Robert Belcher Esq. of Henley to Mary Sheldrake Kemmery [sic] 20 May 1820.

2. Death of Robert Belcher Henley registered Q2 1840; will of Robert Belcher of Henley proved 08/10/1840. The will is very brief and makes his wife Mary universal legatee and executrix.

3. Death of Mary Sheldrake Belchen [sic] registered Henley on Thames Q3 1847; will of Mary Sheldrake Belcher of Henley-upon-Thames Oxfordshire proved 09/10/1847.

4. Robert Belcher was executor in 1819 for Matthew Belcher, brandy merchant of Fore Street Limehouse, and for his wife's uncle Colonel John Sheldrake (q.v.), a Berbice slave-owner.

T71/885 British Guiana claim no. 156 (Plantation Everton).

1. The European Magazine and London Review, Vol. 77, p. 466; her name is given correctly as Mary Sheldrake Kemmens in Ancestry.com, England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973 [database online].

2. FreeUKGen, England and Wales Free BMD Database, Deaths, 1837-1983 [database online]; PROB 11/1934/235.

3. FreeUKGen, England and Wales Free BMD Database, Deaths, 1837-1983 [database online]; PROB 11/2063/46.

4. Times 22/11/1824 and PO Directory 1819.