Thomas Wilkinson

Awarded with William Smoult Temple the compensation for the enslaved people on Clermont estate in Trelawney Jamaica as executor of Robert Henry McDonald (q.v.), the mortgagee.  

T71/874 Trelawney no. 171. T71/1608 letter to the Commissioners from B. Broughton of 2 Alie Place, Alie Street London 22/02/1836 setting out the background to the counterclaim, identifying Robert Henry McDonald as of Old Elvet City of Durham, who had lent £4000 against Claremont and on his death 31/07/1831 had left all his property on trust to Wilkinson and Temple: the persons interested were Robert Henry MacDonald's nephews , James Henry Dixon, Robert William Dixon and Edward Dixon, the latter of whom had died in 1834. Broughton was acting for the only child of Edward Dixon.

The papers of the solicitors Mawson, Freeman and Curry ('Mawson's papers') in the Durham University Special Collections (GB-0033-MAW) include 19/04/1836 (3/33e(iii)) the Release by James Henry Dixon and Robert William Dixon of Thomas Wilkinson and Rev. William Smoult Temple from liability after receipt of sums due to them from the estate of Robert Henry McDonald and 20/01/1832 (3/35a) a release of Wilkinson and the Rev. Smoult as trustee(s) of the estate of Robert Henry McDonald http://reed.dur.ac.uk/xtf/view?docId=ead/ded/mawson.xml [accessed 05/10/2011].