Elizabeth Witter Bucknor

Profile & Legacies Summary

1774 - 1854

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Elizabeth Witter Bucknor, born in Jamaica, half-sister of Isabella Parnther (q.v.), and owner of a group of enslaved people on the Hopewell estate in Hanover Jamaica, whom she had inherited under the will of her mother Ann Bucknor (later Parnther) in 1794.

In 1851, Elizabeth W Bucknor u[nmarried] aged 77 born Jamaica 'sister' 'annuitant' was living at the Vicarage Churchyard Hatfield with her half-sister Isabella Parnther. Death of Elizabeth Witter Bucknor registered Q2 1854 at Hatfield.

Sources

T71/915 (p. 10) Hanover claim no. 94 identifies her as spinster, Great Britain owner-in-fee. T71/1608 letter 28/08/1835 from E.W. Bucknor Hatfield Hertfordshire sets out the background to the claim and states that Elizabeth Witter Bucknor came to Britain in 1824 'from indisposition and other causes.' 1. 1851 census online; FreeUKGen, England and Wales Free BMD Database, Deaths, 1837-1983 [database online].

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Name in compensation records

E. Witter Bucknor

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Associated Estates (1)

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