1800 - ????
Year of birth estimate. Daughter of Rev. William Vaughan Hamilton, who settled enslaved people in trust for his children Shakespeare Hamilton, Mrs Eliza Singer and Mrs Caroline Daun at some point between 1820 and 1823.
Eliza married George Singer (1790-1821), an attorney of St. Catherine, Jamaica, in 1818. They had one son, Captain George Singer (1819-1867).
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Maiden Name
Hamilton
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Spouse
Married but no further details
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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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1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Trust beneficiary
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Sisters
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Daughter → Father
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Sister → Brother
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Grand-daughter → Grandfather
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1801 - 25th Nov 1880
English clergyman, resident in Jamaica from 1827 but returning to England with his Jamaican-born wife and children six years later.
The Buff Bay plantation was a sugar estate next to the Buff Bay River, south of Charlestown in Jamaica. By 1839, the estate was 840 acres.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2023
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Mrs Eliza Singer (née Hamilton)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146651195 [accessed 1st October 2023].
