Henry Ashton

Liverpool merchant in Henry and Ralph Ashton (q.v.). Henry Ashton was also trustee under Ralph Ashton's will.

1.  Ralph Ashton was a resident of Dominica in the 1820s.

1. '[Death] At his residence Woodside Cheshire near Liverpool England on the 28th May last [1842] after an illness of five months, Henry Ashton Esq., many years an eminent merchant in the Island of Dominica.'

T71/881 Dominica claim nos. 224 (Trafalgar), 448 (Everton) and 820.

1. See e.g 'An appeal and a caution to the British Nation with proposals for the immediate or gradual Emancipation of the slaves: indemnity must precede Emancipation' by a Member of the Dominica legislature (London, printed for John Richardson 1824) p. 74, dealing with formation of a Dominica Auxiliary Church Missionary Society Feb. 1823.

1. Sydney Morning Herald, 19/12/1842 p. 2 at http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/12427146?searchTerm= [accessed 11/10/2010].