William Alexander Weightman

Awarded the compensation for the enslaved people on Macaw River in St James Jamaica as one of the trustees of Samuel Wisdom Barrett (q.v).  

1. Will of William Alexander Weightman late of Southborough near Tunbridge Wells who died 02/01/1865 proved 23/01/1865, effects under £4000.

T71/873 St James no. 664.

1. National Probate Calendar 1865; Walford, County Families (1864) shows him as 'of Burbage Leicestershire', born 1781, s[ucceeded] 1825, son of William Weightman of Burbage, educated St Paul's, married Mary Ann Milward 1812, and singles out one of the couple's children, Hugh, a barrister. Weightman's connection to the Barretts is not immediately apparent.