18th Apr 1836 | 22 Enslaved | £417 19s 9d
Parliamentary Papers p. 48.
Award split: 143 Thomas McCornock awarded £390 102 4d for 17 enslaved persons on 18/4/1836; 143B Thomas M'Cornock awarded £27 9s 5d for 5 enslaved persons (children?) on 10/4/1837.
See James A. Thome and Joseph H. Kimball, Emancipation in the West Indies: A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and Jamaica in the year 1837 (New York, American Anit-slavery Society, 1838) p. 294 for hostile view of McCornock.
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Colony
Jamaica
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Parish
St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey
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Claim No.
143A & B
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Uncontested
Yes
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Awardee
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???? - 29th Aug 1873
Free person of colour, slave-owner in Jamaica. Long-term partner and later wife of Thomas Legal Yates. Living in Britain from the mid-1830s until her death in 1873.
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:
'Jamaica St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey 143A & B', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/15892 [accessed 20th April 2024].
