1795 - 4th Jan 1869
Awarded, together with her husband Sir Phineas Riall (q.v.) in right of his wife, the compensation for enslaved people 'hired upon Peru Estate' in Trelawny, with her sister Mary James Scarlett as heiress of Elizabeth V Scarlett.
The daughter of Elizabeth Virgo Scarlett (d. 1821), who owned and ran Thicketts Estate, Peru and Green Vale in Jamaica after the death of her husband James in 1798, and whose papers are in the archives of the University of Hull.
Death of Elizabeth Riall aged 74 registered Tadcaster Q1 1869. Will of Dame Elizabeth Virgo Scarlett formerly of Eaton Place Pimlio but late of Hazelwood Tadcaster Yorkshire who died 04/01/1869 proved 29/01/1869 effects under £14,000.
T71/874 Trelawny no. 406.
http://www.hull.ac.uk/arc/collection/womensstudies/scarlett [accessed 07/05/2012]; Elizabeth Virgo and Mary James Scarlett are identified as the daughters of Elizabeth Virgo Scarlett the elder in the Privy Council Papers online, Case number: 1792_193, http://www.privycouncilpapers.org/privy-council-papers/9255 [accessed 07/05/2012].
FreeUKGen, England and Wales Free BMD Database, Deaths, 1837-1983 [database online]; National Probate Calendar 1869.
We are grateful to Robert Lancashire for his assistance with compiling this entry.
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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Maiden Name
Scarlett
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Name in compensation records
Elizabeth V. Rial (
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Spouse
Lt. Gen. Phineas Riall
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Children
d.s.p.
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Wealth at death
£14,000
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£1,074 1s 4d
Awardee
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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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1798 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Heir
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1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Joint owner
Her husband was shown as joint-owner in right of his wife 1823-1826 |
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1798 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Heir
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Wife → Husband
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Sisters
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Daughter → Mother
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Daughter → Father
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Brunswick House Hotel, 13 Princes Street, Hanover Square, London, Middlesex, London, 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:
'Elizabeth Virgo Riall (née Scarlett)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/1032791140/ [accessed 16th April 2024].
