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Owner of Woodside estate in St Mary, Jamaica which he inherited on the death of his father John Neilson when William John Neilson was around 9 years of age. Married Jane Eliza and had six children by the time of his death in 1829. Taken by his mother to live in England after the death of his father, he had returned to Jamaica by the early 1810s and described himself in his will (written in 1828) as a 'practitioner of physic and surgery'.
Erna Brodber, Woodside, Pear Tree Grove P.O. (Mona, Jamaica: The University of the West Indies Press, 2004) p. 10-11, 18-19.
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Spouse
Eliza Jane
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Children
George, William John, 4 daughters
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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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- 1828 [LA] → Other
Owner in right of his wife until his death c. 1829. |
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1815 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Owner
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1829 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Previous owner
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Son → Mother
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Son → Father
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Husband → Wife
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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:
'William John Neilson', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146646127 [accessed 22nd December 2024].
