Mary Bourke Dennis

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 2^nd Jan 1832

Biography

Married to Francis Dennis who owned Pembroke Hall and Prospect Pen in Jamaica. Bought Norbiton estate in Surrey in 1797. Owned a group of enslaved people in her own right who were settled on Pembroke Hall. Died 02/01/1832 at the home of her son-in-law James Hewitt Massy-Dawson, Gloucester Place in London.

Will of Mary Dennis late of Norbiton Place Kingston now of Gloucester Place proved 07/07/1832. In the will she said that she had become entitled 'under the marriage settlement of her daughter Maria Frances Pallmer or otherwise' to an annuity of £1000 p.a. secured on certain estates in Jamaica,'I have yet received no part of the same.' She forgave the first two years of payments and left the remaining arrears in trust, for the benefit of her daughter Maria Frances Pallmer and then to her grand-daughter Isabella Pallmer Massy Dawson.

Sources

Gentleman's Magazine Vol. 102 Part 1 p. 92 (January 1832).

PROB 11/1802/460.

Further Information

Absentee?

Transatlantic

Spouse

Francis Dennis

Children

Eliza Jane, Maria Frances

Associated Estates (2)

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

Annuitant

Pembroke Hall Estate [ Jamaica | St Mary ]

Annuitant for £1000 p.a., no part of which she had received, she said when made her will in 1831, when she forgave the first two payments. Her executors claimed for £20,111 in arrears, implying her annuity had begun c. 1809, which fits with the statement in her will that her right to an annuity arose from the marriage settlement of her daughter Maria Frances Pallmer, who had married Charles Nicholas Pallmer in 1808.

1817 [EA] - 02/01/1832 [ED] → Owner

Pembroke Hall [2] [ Jamaica | St Mary ]

Legacies Summary

Physical (1)

Country house

Norbiton Place or House [Purchased]

Details

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Estate and house (now demolished) at Kingston, Surrey, purchased by Mary Dennis in 1797 after the death of her husband Francis, and passing in her lifetime from her to her son-in-law Charles Nicholas...