Daniel Byam Mathew

???? - 1838

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Owner of the Pennitenny estate on St Kitts (for the enslaved people on which the compensation was paid to mortgagees); trustee of the Budgen family; former owner of Cochran's Old North Sound in Antigua (which he inherited from Archibald Cochran (q.v.) and placed in trust for his daughter's marriage settlement in 1815: the trustees sold it the following year to Samuel Otto-Baijer); and almost certainly the 'Mathew' of the Chancery suit of Gambier v Mathew around the Mathews Cayon estate on St Kitts.

  1. The life dates of Daniel Byam Mathew are given as 1756-1812 by the Glamorgan Record Office, but this seems erroneous. The will of Daniel Byam Mathew late of Weymouth Street but now of Margate Kent was proved 11/01/1855 but made in 1823 with a codicil (made on St Kitts) of 1838: in the will, he refers to his wife Elizabeth and to his son Daniel Dering Mathew. The will also identifies James Lord Gambier (q.v.) as his brother-in-law and an estate in Cayon, St Kitts as having belonged to his father. Vere Langford Oliver gives date of death as 26/04/1838 aet. 82 and shows Lord Gambier as his brother-in-law, husband of Daniel Byam Mathew's sister Louisa until Gambier's death in 1833.

  2. Daniel Byam Mathew's sons Daniel Dering Mathew moved to Australia c.1812 and died at Rosedale Sydney in 1856. Firs Cottage, the house he built in Roseville Park NSW before 1824, is now (November 2017) the Sous Le Soleil Restaurant.


Sources

  1. GLAMORGAN RECORD OFFICE/ARCHIFDY MORGANNWG, Reference code: GB 0214 DMW Title: Family and Estate Papers of the Mathew Family of St. Kew, Cornwall and of the Caribean [sic] Islands, http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/download/GB%200214%20DMW [accessed 20/11/2014]; PROB 11/2205/116; Vere Langford Oliver, History of Antigua Vol II 'Pedigree of Mathew', p. 252.

  2. http://dictionaryofsydney.org/person/mathew_daniel_dering [accessed 10/02/2016]; http://slshome.com.au/roseville/ [accessed 20/11/2017].


Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish?
Spouse
Elizabeth Dering
Children
Daniel Dering; (Mary) Elizabeth

Associated Claims (3)

£1,749 11s 5d
Claimants in List E or Chancery cases (Trustee)
£2,910 12s 6d
Unsuccessful claimant (Owner-in-fee)
£4,968 10s 3d
Claimants in List E or Chancery cases

Associated Estates (3)

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
1814 [SY] - 1815 [EY] → Owner

Inherited by Daniel Byam Mathew under the will of Archibald Cochran (q.v.) but placed by him in trust under his daughter's marriage settlement and sold thereafter by the trustees to Samuel Otto Baijer in 1816.

1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Owner

The 1817 Slave Register gives D.B. Mathew owner; in subsequent years, the registration was for 'Daniel Mathew deceased', possibly Daniel Byam Mathew's father, whose will was proved in 1777.

1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner

Legacies Summary

Imperial (1)

Other
Australia: New South Wales 
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Firs Cottage, Roseville Park, NSW, built by Daniel Dering Mathew, son of Daniel Byam Mathew, and now the Sous Soleil...
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Relationships (6)

Legatee → Testator
Brother-in-laws
Son → Father
Father-in-law → Son-in-law
Father → Daughter
Brothers

Addresses (2)

Margate, Kent, South-east England , England
Notes →

The will of Daniel Byam Mathew late of Weymouth Street but now of Margate Kent was proved 11/01/1855 but made in 1823 with a codicil (made on St Kitts) of 1838.

Weymouth Street, London, Middlesex, London, England
Notes →

The will of Daniel Byam Mathew late of Weymouth Street but now of Margate Kent was proved 11/01/1855 but made in 1823 with a codicil (made on St Kitts) of 1838: