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Probably daughter-in-law of Larchin Gordon I (q.v.), and wife and then widow of William Gordon (q.v.) of Lemon Hall.
Baptism of Mary Alexandrina Burberry [also given as Burbury] McKenzie, daughter of Alexander McKenzie and Mary, in Clarendon 1774.
Three children - Alexander McKenzie Gordon; Larchin Gordon; and Mary Kellett Gordon - are shown as born to or baptised by William Gordon and Mary Alexandrina Burbury [Gordon], n.d., in England.
J.M. Bulloch The making the West Indies: the Gordons as colonists [n.d., privately printed] shows her as the seventh child of Larchin Gordon, but adds that William Gordon's wife was shown as Alexandrina Barberry in 1794, https://archive.org/stream/makingofwestindi00bull/makingofwestindi00bull_djvu.txt [accessed 27/01/2017].
Ancestry.com, Jamaica, Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1879 [database online]
Ancestry.com, England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 [database online].
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Absentee?
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Name in compensation records
Mary Alexandrina Burberry Gordon
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£2,763 8s 7d
Claimants in List E or Chancery cases (Annuitant)
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£902 11s 0d
Claimants in List E or Chancery cases (Owner-in-fee)
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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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1834 [EA] - → Annuitant
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Daughter-in-law → Father-in-law
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Wife → Husband
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1774 - 1832
Head driver on Great Valley estate in Hanover, Jamaica. Executed by hanging following Sam Sharpe's War.
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:
'Mary Alexandrina Barberry (or Barbary) Gordon', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146642677 [accessed 20th April 2024].
