1802 - 1837
Small-scale slave-owner in Barbados, dying in Clifton, Bristol shortly after the award of compensation.
William Gibbons Hood son of William Hood and Sara was baptised 04/06/1802 at St Saviour, Woolcot Park Gloucestershire.
The death of William Gibbons Hood was registered Q3 1837 at Clifton.
Ancestry.com, [database online]
England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1837-1915
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Absentee?
Transatlantic
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£38 16s 9d
Awardee
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£40 15s 7d
Awardee
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Clifton, Gloucestershire, South-west England, England
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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:
'William Gibbons Hood', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/5259 [accessed 25th November 2024].
