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Apparently resident slave-owner. An indenture dated 01/03/1805, not yet examined, reportedly conveyed a group of estates including Welcome, Haddington and Leyden, from Robert Kerr to Robert Markland, although Robert Kerr was dead by 1796.
TNA. PWLB - Records of the Loan Commissioners and the Public Works Loan Board PWLB 11 - West India Relief Commissioners: Mortgage Indentures PWLB 11/79 - Jamaica: WELCOME, HADDINGTON, LEYDEN, ROXBURGH, BURRELL'S PENN, MOUNT PARNASSUS, WELCOME BARGUADIER PENN, STAPLETON MOUNT and LEMON HALL estates
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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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1796 [EA] - 1803 [LA] → Previous owner
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1796 [EA] - 1803 [LA] → Previous owner
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1799 [EA] - → Previous owner
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Business associates
Notes →
Tentative association...
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28th Mar 1802 - 6th May 1874
Daughter of a wealthy planter and wife of the rector of St Elizabeth, Jamaica. Bigamous convicted forger.
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:
'Robert Kerr', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146639019 [accessed 22nd December 2024].
