18th Jan 1836 | 407 Enslaved | £21480 10s 10d
Parliamentary Papers p. 133.
Given as Samuel Sandback [sic].
T71/887: shows 'Sandbach'.
T71/433 p. 1951: enslaved persons were registered by George Rainy for (and possibly also signing with) Samuel Sandbach and Peter Maclagan.
John Habakkuk, Marriage, debt and the estate system (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1994) p. 423: 'About 1833 Samuel Sandbach, Liverpool merchant and shipowner, bought the Hafodunos estate in Llangerniew [North Wales] - about 5,000 acres in 1894 - and his son rebuilt the house'.
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Colony
British Guiana
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Claim No.
2512
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Estate
Coffee Grove & Caledonia
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Collected by
Charles Stewart Parker of Parker, Tinne, Sandbach
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Uncontested
Yes
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Awardee
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Awardee
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1789 - 14th Mar 1860
Possibly the first 'ethnic minority' MP to be elected (in 1832) to the House of Commons.
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:
'British Guiana 2512 (Coffee Grove & Caledonia)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/7630 [accessed 25th April 2024].
