Elizabeth Lucretia Thomas (née Welch)

Awarded part of the compensation for the enslaved people on the Hyde estate in St Thomas-in-the-Vale Jamaica with her husband Sir William Lewis George Thomas and her sister and brother-in-law, Jane and Robert Lewis Fitzgerald (all of whom q.v.).

1. Elizabeth Lucretia Welch married William Lewis George Thomas at Melcombe Regis 28/05/1801. Born 1774, married Sir William Lewis George Thomas, 4th Bart., of Dale Park, Sussex, at Dorchester in 1815. Died 21/01/1848 age 74, buried at Radipole, Dorset. Abode on bural record given as Melcombe Regis.

St Thomas-in-the-Vale no. 294; memorial from William Lewis George Thomas and Robert Lewis Fitzgerald 09/04/1835: their wives were daughters of Richard Welch esq. formerly Chief Justice, Hyde estate left by will for payment of legacies of £2500 each to his younger children after payment of annuity to widow (who died in 1813). A son, also Richard, died in 1809. A third daughter Flavell [?= Favel] died intestate, her remaining sisters each shared £500 of her portion; the youngest daughter Georgina died unmarried, so her property went equally to 2 surviving sisters. So each had £4500, received interest at 5% until 1831, since then arrears have accumulated.

1. Ancestry.com, Dorset, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 [database online]. Children are from Debrett's Baronetage 1840 p. 542.