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Slave-owner and large-scale attorney on Barbados, owner of Green's, resident in the 1820s and 1830s but dying in Britain in 1853. A large number of estates give Edward Thomas as attorney in the Slave Registers, and it is presumed that this was the same man. Kathleen Mary Butler showed him as attorney for 19 estates 1823-1843, against the 23 identified by LBS to date connected with this entry.
The will of Edward Thomas formerly of the island of Barbados..but now residing at Clifton was proved 18/11/1853. Under the will he left his wife Mary Anna Thomas his household effects and £2000, and placed the rest of his property in trust to be sold and the proceeds to be divided among his 6 sons, with an adjustment for sums of £2250 and £2100 he had already advanced to two of them.
In 1851, Edward Thomas aged 63 landed proprietor, his wife Mary Thomas aged 61 and son Elliot aged 20 student Cambridge all born Barbados were living at East Street in Weymouth.
Kathleen Mary Butler, The Economics of Emancipation (1995) p. 58.
PROB 11/2181/252.
1851 census online.
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Absentee?
Transatlantic
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Spouse
Married but no further details
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Children
John Best; Lynch; William Grasett; Reynold; Edward; Elliott
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£2,295 7s 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] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
Probably this Edward Thomas. |
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1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
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1823 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney
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1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
This is probably Edward Thomas who was a claimant on Barbados 3813 (Greens); but it may be a different one. |
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1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
This is probably Edward Thomas who was a claimant on Barbados 3813 (Greens) and acted as Attorney in the 1832 returns for BA756 Britton's (Barbados, St Michael), BA4187 Neils (Barbados, St Michael) and for the return of BA594 Hannays estate, also previously owned by the Rev John Brome. |
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1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney
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1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney
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1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
If this is the correct Edward Thomas, he was Attorney for a number of Barbadian estates. |
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1826 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
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1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney
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1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
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1823 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney
This is probably Edward Thomas who was a claimant on Barbados 3813 (Greens) and acted as Attorney in the 1832 returns for BA756 Britton's (Barbados, St Michael), BA4187 Neils (Barbados, St Michael) and for the return of BA593 Bromefield estate, also previously owned by the Rev John Brome. |
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1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
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1829 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
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1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney
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1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney
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1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
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1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
This is probably Edward Thomas who was a claimant on Barbados 3813 (Greens); but it may be a different one. |
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1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney
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1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
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1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Executor
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1823 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
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1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
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1823 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney
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1829 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Trustee
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Clifton, Bristol, Gloucestershire, South-west England, England
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1789 - 14th Mar 1860
Possibly the first 'ethnic minority' MP to be elected (in 1832) to the House of Commons.
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.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Edward Thomas', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/6176 [accessed 21st November 2024].
