1758 - 1819
Resident slave-owner and President of the Council of Antigua. The administrator of Thomas Norbury Kerby claimed the compensation for the Parry's and Weir's estates on Antigua.
Thomas Norbury Kerby, son of Hamilton of the Island of Antigua, matriculated Trinity College Oxford 10/07/1776 aged 18.
Will of Thomas Norbury Kerby of the Island of Antigua proved 29/08/1822. He left £10,000 to his daughter Ann Byam Kerby (q.v., under Ann Byam Stapleton) secured on his two sugar plantations, 'slaves, stock live and dead and all things appertaining thereto.' He charged £6000 on Parry's and £4000 on Weir's, explaining that he considered the former more valuable. He left the remainder of his estate to his wife Jane Kerby (q.v.). The will (made in July 1810) states that both his wife and young daughter were in England.
Ancestry.com, Oxford University Alumni, 1500-1886 [database online]
PROB 11/1660/457.
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Spouse
Jane Byam
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Children
Ann Byam
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University
Oxford (Trinity) [1776 ]
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£1,832 9s 7d
Other association
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£2,834 18s 7d
Other association
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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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1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Attorney
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1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Attorney
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1767 [SY] - 1819 [EY] → Owner
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1767 [SY] - 1819 [EY] → Owner
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Husband → Wife
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Father → Daughter
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Son → Father
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Uncle → Nephew
Notes →
The Rev. John Thomas Wilgress' mother was Elizabeth Kerby, sister of Thomas Norbury Kerby....
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Grandson → Grandfather
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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.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'Thomas Norbury Kerby', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146636838 [accessed 30th January 2025].
