Sabine Gascoyne

Beneficiary of the trust which held 3/4 of the Seven Plantations estate in Clarendon Jamaica, the compensation for which was awarded to William Cotton and Thomas Crafer as trustees. The plantation had belonged to Sabine Gascoyne's brother Dr. Rev. George Chandler ne Gascoyne (q.v.), who had inherited it from his aunt Sarah Chandler.

1. Sabine Gascoyne was baptised 07/03/1758 at St Andrew Holborn, the son of Joseph and Sarah Gascoyne (nee Chandler). Administration of the estate of Sabine Gascoyne of Haroldstone, Haverfordwest who died 24/02/1840 awarded 23/02/1893 to Frances Esther Phillips, effects £49.

2. Joseph Gascoyne was of Barking, and appears to have been bankrupt c. 1778. His sons were Sabine (navy) and Crisp Chandler (army), implying a common descent for Sabine Gascoyne and other beneficiaries of the compensation under this award. Joseph was: the son of Sir Crisp Gascoyne (1700-1761), Lord Mayor of London; the brother of Bamber; and uncle of General Isaac Gascoyne, the MP for Liverpool, 1796-1831.

3. Isaac Gascoyne was an anti-Catholic, anti-parliamentary reform, advocate of Liverpool mercantile interests and supported the Liverpool West India Association's pleas for gradual abolition of slavery and compensation (1830).

T71/859 Clarendon no. 410A, B & C

1. Ancestry.com, London England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials 1538-1812 [database online].

2. SEAX - Essex Archives online: Essex Record Office Estate and Family Records, Strutt Family of Terling Place, D/DRa F14/1-14/10.

3. D. R. Fisher (ed.), The House of Commons 1820-1832 (7 vols., Cambridge, Cambridge University Press for the History of Parliament Trust, 2009), vol. 5.