1785 - ????
Awarded the compensation for the enslaved people on Healthy Valley in St Andrew and for a further enslaved person in Kingston, both in Jamaica. Although baptised in London and described as an absentee at the time of the slave registration in 1832, there are no signs of him in Britain in the 1830s.
T71/915 p. 14 Robert Wetherell Bryan Owner and T71/865 St Andrew no. 344 Robert Wetherell Bryan St Ann Owner; Kingston no. 1308. T71/137 p 41 Ann Bryan as agent of Robert Wetherill [sic] Bryan owner 'an absentee from this island'. registered 60 slaves 1832.
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Absentee?
British/Irish?
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£22 13s 8d
Awardee
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£1,319 2s 9d
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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1809 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
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Son → Father
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1787 - 1835
Daughter of "free Mulatto" lodging-house-keeper Jane Charlotte Beckford (c. 1759-1825); possibly the daughter of George Ffrench, Clerk to the Jamaica Assembly. Spinster; independently wealthy slave-owner.
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:
'Robert Wetherell Bryan', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/15815 [accessed 24th December 2024].
