Sir Charles Payne

Awarded the compensation for the enslaved people on the French Ground estate on St Kitts. There was a counterclaim, apparently unsuccessful, from his mother Mary and her second husband Col. J. F. Buckworth, but subsequently the compensation money was assigned to be invested in British stocks and any arrears of her £400 annuity was to be met from the compensation money.

1. Sir Charles Payne of Tempsford Hall, son of Sir John Payne and Mary Monoux, nephew of Sir Peter Payne (q.v.) and cousin of Charles Gillies Payne (q.v.). Succeeded his father in 1803.

2. Married at the British embassy in Paris, 'late of Tempsford Hall', Dec. 1835 to Maria Creighton, daughter of the late R. M'Crea. Will of Sir Charles Payne of Rennes in Brittany France proved 02/03/1841.

3. Sir Charles Payne settled £20,000 on his wife as part of the marriage settlement. Separately, around the same time his brother the Rev. Coventry Payne exchanged a lifetime annuity of £500 secured on the West Indian property for the same amount secured on Tempsford.

St Kitts no. 461. Counterclaim from Joseph Francis Buckworth and Mary his wife annuitants for £400, withdrawn; SEAX - Essex archives online, Records of clients of Witham solicitors, D/DBs T97 http://seax.essexcc.gov.uk/ViewCatalogue.aspx?ID=122132 [accessed 21/06/2017].; http://www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecordOffice/CommunityArchives/Wootton/ThePayneFamily.aspx [accessed 08/05/2016].

1. William Courthope, Debrett's Baronetage of England (7th ed., London, C. & J. Rivington, 1835), 'Payne, of St Christopher's', pp. 533-34 (which gives his mother's maiden name as Monnox and her second husband as J.B. Buckworth.  

2. Gentleman's Magazine Vol. 159 (1836) p. 86. Other sources, e.g. the New Monthly Magazine, give her as Sophia Maria; PROB 11/1943.

3. SEAX - Essex archives online, Records of clients of Witham solicitors, D/DBs T97 http://seax.essexcc.gov.uk/ViewCatalogue.aspx?ID=122132 [accessed 21/06/2017].