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John Meek

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1826

Biography

Slave-owner in Jamaica, about to move to Britain when he made his will in 1822.

  1. Will of John Meek of Kingston Surrey [Jamaica about to depart this island for Great Britain] proved 09/04/1827. Under the will he left all his property to his daughter Hannah, wife of John Roe 'practitioner of physic' late of Kingston but now in Surrey in Great Britain, subject to an annuity of £100 p.a. to her mother Mary Meek. In codicil of 1825 made in London he appointed John Roe as well as Hannah as executors.

  2. John Meek of Upper Berkeley Street was buried 13/02/1826 at St Marylebone aged 58.


Sources

  1. PROB 11/1724/183

  2. Ancestry.com, London, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1980 [database online]

Further Information

Absentee?
Transatlantic?
Spouse
Mary
Children
Hannah

Associated Estates (8)

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
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Trustee and Executor
Bryan Castle Estate [ Jamaica | Trelawny ]
1819 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Joint owner
Caen Wood  Estate [ Jamaica | St George ]
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Trustee and Executor
Lowlayton Estate [ Jamaica | St George ]
1832 [EA] - → Executor
Middleton [ Jamaica | St George ]
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Trustee and Executor
New Town [ Jamaica | Port Royal ]
1820 [EA] - → Attorney
Nonsuch [ Jamaica | St Mary ]
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Trustee and Executor
Orange Vale Plantation [ Jamaica | St George ]
1820 [EA] - → Attorney
Unity [ Jamaica | St Mary ]

Relationships (1)

John Meek
Father-in-law → Son-in-law
John Roe
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Addresses (1)

Upper Berkeley Street, London, Middlesex, London, England
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