1st Feb 1808 - ????
Resident clergyman
Son of John Mowatt Bucknor, Asst. Judge of Common Pleas, Hanover, Jamaica (q.v.). Clerk, Walton Free School, Jamaica 1829. Stipendiary Curate of Westmoreland, Jamaica 1846- . Island Curate of Metcalfe, Jamaica 1853-57. In 1833 married Frances Sarah, daughter of E. P. Jackson of Montego Bay.
R. L. Arrowsmith (comp.), Charterhouse Register 1769 -1872 (London & Chichester, Phillimore, 1974). Thanks to Catherine Smith, Charterhouse Archivist, for this reference.
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Spouse
Frances Sarah
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School
Charterhouse [1823-24 ]
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Occupation
Clergyman
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Religion
Church of England
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£1,286 11s 0d
Awardee
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£26 8s 7d
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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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1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
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Grandson → Grandfather
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Son → Father
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???? - 29th Aug 1873
Free person of colour, slave-owner in Jamaica. Long-term partner and later wife of Thomas Legal Yates. Living in Britain from the mid-1830s until her death in 1873.
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:
'Rev. Richard James Bucknor', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/12733 [accessed 9th December 2024].
