???? - 1831
Deceased merchant, whose curators claimed successfully for the compensation for the enslaved people on the Hoop en Vries plantation in British Guiana.
Will of Owen Kernan of Demerara proved at London 27/09/1833 but made in Demerara 11/08/1831 when Kernan was too sick to sign it. He left 10,000 guilders to his housekeeper Catherine or Kitty Beard, to be laid out in the purchase of a house for her use: and 'five or six slaves' were to be purchased for her for life. He left the rest of his estate to Owen and Catherine Beard, his children with Catherine or Kitty Beard alias Baird.
Owen Kernan 'late of Demerary' merchant until 30/04/1827 had been a partner in William and James Eccles of Glasgow.
PROB 11/1821/308
London Gazette 18402 05/10/1827 p. 2060.
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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Occupation
West India merchant
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£7,784 19s 9d
Beneficiary deceased
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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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1826 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Not known
'In the possession of' Owen Kernan' |
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1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Previous owner
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Commercial (1) |
Local partner
William & James Eccles
West India merchant |
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Executor → Testator
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Business partners
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1787 - 1861
Enslaved boy on Unity Valley Pen, Jamaica. Manumitted in 1795 by David Barclay and removed to Philadelphia, with 29 other freed persons from the estate, where he was placed under the care of Society for Improving the Condition of Free Blacks.
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:
'Owen Kernan', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146631370 [accessed 30th December 2024].
