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In Liverpool in the mid-1830s, awarded the compensation for a group of enslaved people in St George Jamaica as natural guardian of his four children, 'Entitled as remaindermen in fee in expectancy under the will of Henry Hough deceased dated 01/01/1800'.
T71/1606 27/09/1834 and T71/1607 27/06/1835 letters from Wm Rothwell, Liverpool 'has [sic] natural guardian of my four children'. Mrs Mary Ohlson (q.v.),the grandmother of children, has claimed 'has tennant for life'. See also Nicholas Draper, The Price of Emancipation p. 222.
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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Spouse
Elizabeth Hough
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£227 7s 3d
Awardee
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Liverpool, Lancashire, North-west England, England
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1781 - 1830
Member of the Baillie of Dochfour family who had numerous mercantile connections in the West Indies. The compensation for Baillie's Bacolet in Grenada was awarded to the trustees of her marriage settlement. Grand-daughter of Colin Roy Campbell of Glenmure. Apparently a victim of the quack doctor John St John Lang of Harley Street in 1830.
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:
'William Rothwell', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/43196 [accessed 8th November 2024].
