Joseph Douglas

London barrister, awarded the compensation with his sister Mrs Eliza Labalmondiere (q.v.) for La Bonne Intention in British Guiana as executors and trustees of Julien LaBalmondiere [sic].

1. Will of Joseph Julian Labalmondiere of Gloucester proved  05/05/1823.  

2. Joseph Julian LaBalmondiere was the son of a French planter who died in 1772. Joseph Julian LaBalmondiere came to Britain after his own career as a planter, married Elizabeth Douglas in Edinburgh in 1801 and settled in Bath in 1803, where they had 6 daughters and two sons. His will provided an annuity of £1500 to his widow, and another annuity of £20 to Mrs Jesse Stewart Robertson, widow of the late James Robertson. Executors and trustees were Joseph Douglas of the Inner Temple London and William Munro of Now [New] Court Gloucs.

3. Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. George Douglas and Annabella Stewart Munro, born 30/10/1782, according to the Family Search genealogical site sourced to Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, which also shows Joseph Douglas (1790-1849) Barrister London as brother of Elizabeth.

T71/885 British Guiana No. 589.

1. PROB 11/1670/96.

2. http://www.labalmondiere.co.uk/Joseph%20Julian.htm [accessed 25/01/2012].

3. http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personid=I88566&tree=Fasti [accessed 25/01/2012].