1808 - ????
Daughter of Ralph Gilroy of Gainslaw, she inherited a half-share in Berwick estate in Port Royal, Jamaica, upon his death in 1826. Sister of Mary Ann Howey (q.v.), she married Matthew Marshall (q.v.) in 1829 and is a widow by the census of 1851.
Born c. 1808 in Jamaica. Parents Ralph Gilroy of Gainslaw, coffee planter, and Annie Silburn. Married Matthew Marshall in Eglingham, Northumberland, 07/04/1829. A widow by the census of 1851 when she is visiting her younger sister Mary Ann Howey (q.v.) at Bridge Castle, Torphichen, West Lothian, her occupation given as "Annuitant". Informant and present for the death of her sister Mary Ann Howey in Edinburgh in 1867.
The will of Ralph Gilroy of Gainslaw House (proved at London 09/08/1826 and then at Durham in 1828) is held at the Archives and Special Collections section of Durham University Library.
T71/864 Port Royal No. 42.
Ancestry.com, England and Wales, Marriages and Banns, 1538-1940 [database online]; 1851 census online; Newcastle Courant 06/01/1828; General Register Office for Scotland, Deaths 1867 685/1 990.
http://familyrecords.dur.ac.uk/nei/NEI_trade_imag_trans.htm#ii; PROB 11/1715/286.
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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Maiden Name
Gilroy
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Spouse
Matthew Marshall
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£1,709 0s 5d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
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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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1826 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
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Daughter → Father
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Sister-in-law → Brother-in-law
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Sisters
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Wife → Husband
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Bridge Castle, Torphichen, West Lothian, Central Scotland, Scotland
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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:
'Sarah Board Marshall (née Gilroy)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/46306 [accessed 18th May 2024].
