???? - 1866
Youngest son of John Hamilton of Northpark and Helen nee Bogle. Along with his four brothers, he inherited a 1/4 share in Dunkley's estate in Vere, Jamaica, which had been bequeathed in trust for the benefit of his mother by his uncle George Bogle (1761-1813). He also has been identified as the William Hamilton partner in Robert Bogle & Co., with significant slave-ownership on British Guiana.
John Guthrie Smith and John Oswald Mitchell, The old country houses of the old Glasgow gentry (2nd edn., Glasgow, James MacLehose & Sons, 1878), Daldowie and Northwoodside House.
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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£6,339 9s 0d
Awardee
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£6,501 19s 4d
Awardee
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£6,188 13s 9d
Awardee
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£12,020 15s 1d
Awardee
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£5,745 10s 11d
Awardee
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£6,230 5s 8d
Awardee
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£3,834 5s 4d
Awardee (Mortgagee)
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£2,448 8s 2d
Awardee
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£6,561 15s 2d
Awardee
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£3,183 18s 1d
Awardee
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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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1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
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1826 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
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1826 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
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Commercial (3) |
Other partner
Robert Bogle and Co.
West India merchant |
Trustee for partner
New Shotts Iron Company
Ironworks |
Partner
Bogle, King
Demerara Merchant |
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Nephew → Uncle
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Nephew → Uncle
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Nephew → Uncle
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Nephew → Uncle
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First Cousins
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First Cousins
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Son → Mother
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Son → Father
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Brothers
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Brothers
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Brothers
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Business partners
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1791 - 1862
Free woman of colour; left Demerara in 1812 as a young woman and settled in Starthforth, Yorkshire, where she died in 1862.
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.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'William Hamilton', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/45268/ [accessed 26th April 2024].
