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Murdoch Dallas

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Biography

Owner of the Letterkenny cotton estate in Berbice, described as 'late' in the 1818 Slave Registration.

  1. A Murdoch Dallas was buried at Liverpool aged 45 11/10/1817. David Alston gives life dates of 1774-1816 and highlights the son of Murdoch Dallas and Helen Grant, Alexander Grant Dallas (1816-1882), born in Berbice, who joined Jardine Matheson, was later a director of the Hudsons Bay Company, married Jane Douglas the daughter of James Douglas, the man of colour who became Governor of Vancouver Island in Canada, and himself appears in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography as 'HBC administrator and businessman.'

Sources

  1. Ancestry.com, England, Select Burials, 1538-1991 [database online]; Slaves & Highlanders; Dictionary of Canadian Biography, W. Kaye Lamb, 'Dallas, Alexander Grant', http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?id_nbr=5461 [accessed 21/02/2014]. .

Further Information

Absentee?
Transatlantic?
Spouse
Helen Grant
Children
Alexander Grant Dallas;

Associated Estates (1)

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:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1811 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Owner
Letterkenny [ British Guiana | Berbice | Berbice - Corentyne Coast ]

Relationships (1)

Murdoch Dallas
Father → Son
Alexander Grant Dallas
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