Strawberry Hill (Surrey)
Purchased 1st Jan 1831 | Occupied 1st Jan 1831 - 1st Jan 1840
A gabled stucco house originally of two storeys, six bays wide with the windows arranged in pairs. The house extended c 1745 and remodelled in the Italianate style by Henry Kendall in 1846/7. The house was totally destroyed by a bomb in September 1940.
1673: House probably built by John Hooker (c1630-1674)
Briscoe's ownership of the house given simply as 1831-1840; exact dates are not known.
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Demolition date
1940 [destroyed by bomb]
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1729 - 1809
Quaker merchant and banker, abolitionist who manumitted enslaved people in Jamaica
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.
