1800 - ????
Jane Melmoth Hall was baptised 05/03/1800 in Kingston, Jamaica, the first of twelve children born to William Dennis Hall (1762-) and his wife Harriet nee Turton (1770-).
William Dennis Hall was the son of William Hall (1731-1794), a sugar refiner and merchant, and his first wife Elizabeth nee Montgomery. He was also a great-grandson of William Melmoth the Elder (1665-1743) through his daughter Sophia Melmoth and Joseph Hall (who married 01/11/1729 in Fleet Street, London).
Email from Dawn Good, 11/06/2014.
Ancestry.com, London, England, Clandestine Marriage and Baptism Registers, 1667-1754 [database online].
For relationships, see PROB 11/725 Will of William Melmoth (1743); PROB 11/1102 Will of Thomas Melmoth (1783); PROB 11/1598 Will of Melmoth Charles widow (1817).
We are grateful to Dawn Good for her assistance with compiling this entry.
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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:
'Jane Melmoth Hall', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/16997 [accessed 27th April 2024].
