John Fowles

No Dates

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Resident attorney and slave-owner in Jamaica, active in local politics in the post-Emancipation period. He was shown as Vice President of the Bank of Jamaica in the P.O.London Directory of 1843 and - as John Fowles senior - as AJ and Magistrate for Kingston and St Andrew in the 1851 Jamaica Almanac, in which John Fowles jun. also appeared as another AJ and Magistrate for Kingston. To date no death-date has been found by LBS for either man. LBS has tentatively concluded that this was the same John Fowles who was partner in John West & Co. of Kingston and active in 1801, but the implied length of his career might suggest there were three generations, not two.


Sources

B.W. Higman Plantation Jamaica, 1750-1850 p. 87; Swithin Wilmot, 'The politics of protest in free Jamaica — The Kingston John Canoe Christmas Riots, 1840 and 1841' Caribbean Quarterly Vol. 36, No. 3/4, Konnu and Carnival—Caribbean Festival Arts (DECEMBER 1990), pp. 65-75.


Associated Claims (13)

£322 4s 11d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
£142 10s 11d
Awardee
£250 7s 3d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
£232 9s 8d
Awardee
£77 4s 2d
Awardee
£1,466 12s 5d
Awardee
£517 12s 8d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
£2,435 7s 9d
Awardee (Executor or executrix)
£5,322 2s 10d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
£1,335 16s 0d
Awardee (Mortgagee)
£3,356 5s 5d
Awardee (Judgement creditor)
£5,855 11s 6d
Claimants in List E or Chancery cases (Mortgagee)
£2,517 14s 7d
Awardee (Mortgagee)

Associated Estates (20)

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:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1828 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Executor
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1834 [EA] - → Judgement creditor
1834 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Owner
1801 [EA] - 1801 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
1829 [EA] - → Receiver
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Executor
1817 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1828 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Executor
1827 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Judgement creditor
1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1839 [EA] - → Not known
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Trustee and Executor
1834 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
1820 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Receiver
28/02/1822 [SD] - → Mortgage Holder
1820 [EA] - → Owner

Legacies Summary

Commercial (1)

Name partner
John West & Co.
West India merchant  
 

Relationships (2)

Business partners
Business partners