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Louisa Child nee Stamp and her husband James Edward Child were parties to the chancery suit of Child v Holloway, into which the compensation for the enslaved people on Mount Holstein estate in St George was paid. The couple had married at St George Hanover Square in London in 1820. Louisa Child died formerly of 3 Marlborough Cottages College Street Chelsea but late of 9 College Place Chelsea 28/10/1863 leaving £300. In 1851 she had been living as head of household at 4 Sydney Terrace, 'wife of a grocer', born Jamaica aged 50, with a son Edwin 'modeller of iron.'
Ancestry.com, London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1932 [database online]; National Probate Calendar 1863.
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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Maiden Name
Stamp
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Spouse
James Edward Child
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Wealth at death
£300
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£2,871 6s 11d
Claimants in List E or Chancery cases
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Wife → Husband
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Sisters
Notes →
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3 Marlborough Cottages, College Street, Chelsea, London, Middlesex, London, England
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9 College Place, London, Middlesex, London, England
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1787 - 1861
Enslaved boy on Unity Valley Pen, Jamaica. Manumitted in 1795 by David Barclay and removed to Philadelphia, with 29 other freed persons from the estate, where he was placed under the care of Society for Improving the Condition of Free Blacks.
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:
'Louisa Child (née Stamp)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146658885 [accessed 20th April 2024].
