James Flemming or Fleming

Awarded with others, probably as trustees, the compensation for the Lower or Lower Windward estate on Montserrat belonging to Dominick Trant (q.v.).

There is some ambiguity as to whether the group were trustees (or the successors of trustees) under (1) the will of James Trant of Upper Ryde Isle of Wight proved 12/03/1804 (PROB 11/1406) under which Frances, the daughter of Dominick Henry Trant of Easingwold Yorkshire and who married Major General Hon Henry Dillon, the brother of the 12th Viscount, was entitled to an annuity of £50 p.a., or (2) under the marriage settlement of Dominick Trant, the claimant, and Caroline Story in 1835. If James Flem]m]ing was the man below, as seems likely, then he can only have been trustee of the 1835 marriage settlement, and not of the 1804 will.

1. James Fleming [sic] 49 Davies Street. In the 1841 census James Fleming [sic] barrister aged 30 was living in Davies Street with Henry Fleming 25 also a barrister.

T71/888 Montserrat No. 15, where James Flemming is identified as of Davies Street, Berkeley Square. T71/1261 rehearses the first will and annuity, and then identifies the awardees as trustees of the marriage settlement of Dominick Trant and Caroline Story '16-17/1/1835'.

1. Boyle's Directory 1838.