John Ronald

Profile & Legacies Summary

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Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Partner in Robert Eccles & Co., and then Eccles Burnley (q.v.). The Eccles firms failed c. 1848.

His daughter Agnes married Alexander Johnston MP (Kilmarnock Burghs) and merchant in Glasgow, who bought Shield Hall in 1838.

Sources

T71/887 British Guiana claim no. 2362.

John Guthrie Smith and John Oswald Mitchell, The old country houses of the old Glasgow gentry (2nd edn., Glasgow, James MacLehose & Sons, 1878), LXXXIX Shield Hall.

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Name in compensation records

John Donald

Children

Agnes

Occupation

Merchant

Associated Claims (6)

Legacies Summary

Commercial (1)

Other partner

Eccles, Burnley & Co.
West India merchant

Addresses (1)

Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Central Scotland, Scotland

Further Information

People of Interest

Anna Meighan

???? - 1848

Widow of prominent mahogany merchant and landowner

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Documents of Interest

Windsor and Williamsfield Inventory of Slaves 1814 p8

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:
'John Ronald', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/46900/ [accessed 13th October 2024].

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