William Alves

The executors of William Alves were awarded the compensation for the Rose Hall estate in British Guiana.

1. Will of William Alves of London was proved 11/08/1835. His address was given as Enham House Hampshire in the announcement of the marriage of his son John Alves (q.v.) to Susan Barclay Katz (q.v.) in 1837, after William Alves' death.

2. William Alves' wife was S.O.Davidson, eldest daughter of Duncan Davidson of Tullock MP for the couty of Cromarty: she died at Leghorn in October 1824.

1. PROB 11/1850/128; http://www.spanglefish.com/slavesandhighlanders/index.asp?pageid=225843 [accessed 04/03/2013]; Times 22/4/1837 p 7: Marriages: 'On the 20th inst. at Cheltenham [Gloucestershire], John Alves, Esq, eldest son of the late William Alves, of Enham House, Hampshire, to Susan Barclay, dau. of Simon Fraser Esq. and widow of the late W. Katz.'

2. Miscellanea genealogica et heraldica, Vol. IV 3rd series (1902) 'English and American Inscriptions in the old (and now closed) Protestant cemetery in Leghorn', p. 90.

We are grateful to Jim Brennan for his help with this entry, which also draws on David Alston's Slaves and Highlanders material.