1769 - 1852
Keturah Shepherd or Shepperd Murray (nee Bruce), daughter of Alex. Bruce of Edinburgh and Dorothy Shepherd, and owner of an estate in Barbados unidentified from the compensation records but inferred from the Slave Registers to have been Bruce Vale, for which the compensation was paid to her and to her second husband William Murray 'in right of wife.' The couple baptised three children at St Mary Hornsey between 1798 and 1801. She died in Barbados in 1852.
David Dobson, Barbados Links, 1627-1877 p. 108 which gives as the reference GM NS/38/106.
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Absentee?
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Maiden Name
Bruce
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Spouse
(1) Lieut. Devenish (2) William Murray
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£3,353 13s 9d
Awardee
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Grand-daughter → Grandmother
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Wife → Husband
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1805 - 22nd Apr 1887
Born into slavery in Carriacou, Grenada, Malvina Wells became a lady's maid in Edinburgh and a trusted family friend to her employers.
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:
'Keturah Shepherd Murray formerly Devenish (née Bruce)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/41330 [accessed 4th July 2024].
