John Groscort Reed

Resident planter, son, executor and heir of George Reed of Demerara who had died in Britain in 1831.

1. Will of John Groscort Reed of Demerara South America proved 17/07/1838. The will (apparently made in 1818 and witnessed in 1821) is extremely short and left everything to his wife Ann Elvira. A codicil of 27/03/1838, when he was about to leave Demerara with his wife, appointed his brother Baynes Reed and his sons-in-law James Chapman and Thomas Austin as Executor [sic] and guardians of his minor heirs. His widow Ann Elvira Reed died at Exeter in 1867 leaving £9000 effects. In 1851 she had been living (aged 55 born Barbados) with her mother-in-law Mary Reed aged 87 'Proprietor in Railway Stocks' also born Barbados, at 2 Hills Court Crescent Exeter, together with three of Mary Reed's grand-children and several great-grand-children.

Times 16/2/1831 p. 4: death at New Court, Newent, Gloucestershire. George Reed of Dochfour Demerara, formerly of the Island of Barbados, in his 71st year.

1. PROB11/1898/248; National Probate Calendar 1867; 1851 census online (where she appears as Ann E Reed).