John Jacob Gilgeous

Apparently a resident planter, although attorneys registered enslaved people on his behalf. Gilgeous was awarded the compensation for the Windsor Castle estate, had formerly owned an estate called Catherine Elizabeth and apparently was also a creditor of Better Success.

1. In 1848, Plantation Better Success was put up for auction as a result of an action by Sarah Maria Gilgeous and William Benjamin Gilgeous, as heiress and heir of John Jacob Gilgeous, by their attorney in the colony William Lyng against John Chandler an inhabitant of Essequebo and John Robert Evans, executor of John Evans deceased, in his lifetime joint proprietor of Pln Better Success. Sarah Maria Gilgeous, described in 1854 as 'widow', died at Liverpool Q2 1857; William Benjamin Gilgeous, presumably the son, was a doctor in Blackrock Dublin.

1. London Gazette 20910 31/12/1848 p. 3898; Ancestry.com England & Wales FreeBMD Death Index 1837-1915 [database online]; Privy Council Papers online Case 1792_868 (1854), http://www.privycouncilpapers.org/privy-council-papers/601 [accessed 14/05/2014].