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Bryan Blake

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1800

Biography

Merchant of Antigua and slave-owner on St Vincent, first husband of Lydia O'Connor nee Brodie (q.v.). He was party to two deeds, one of 01/01/1798 whereby he and James Lowe purchased the estate known as Mount William in St Vincent, appraised at £24,960, from the executors of Henry Sharpe and Samuel Parker Clapham; and the second a deed of August 1799 under which he took over the mortgage of George Fraser on the Mount William estate in St Vincent, when he was described as late of St Vincent but now of Antigua. He died shortly thereafter, reportedly in 1800.


Sources

Deed Book 1800, British Library, EAP688/1/1/11, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP688-1-1-11 and pp. 339 et seq.

Further Information

Absentee?
West Indian
Spouse
Lydia Brodie

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
1798 [EA] - 1798 [LA] → Joint owner
Mount William [ St Vincent ]

Relationships (1)

Bryan Blake
Husband → Wife
Lydia O'Connor formerly Blake (née Brodie)
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