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Joseph Robert Bowen

Profile & Legacies Summary

1787 - ????

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Slave-owner of Jamaica, son of Robert Bowen (q.v.), apparently resident at the time of compensation but with evidence that he and his family had been in England in the 1820s and early 1830s, with the baptism of a series of children at Chilcompton in the 1820s, the death of the eldest child of Joseph Robert Bowen in Somerset reported in 1825 and a Joseph Robert Bowen appearing in the pollbook for Chewton in 1832.


Sources

http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/rbowen.htm; The Times 08/04/1825; Ancestry.com, All UK, Poll Books and Electoral Registers, 1538-1893 [database online].

Associated Claims (3)

Jamaica Hanover 50 (Orchard Estate)
£3,678 14s 7d
Awardee
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Jamaica Hanover 51 (Orchard Estate)
£531 19s 1d
Awardee
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Jamaica Hanover 634
£62 1s 1d
Awardee
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Associated Estates (5)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
Bowen's Hopewell Estate [ Jamaica | Hanover ]
1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Other
Bowen's Hopewell Estate [ Jamaica | Hanover ]
1815 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Joint owner
Orchard Estate [ Jamaica | Hanover ]
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
Retreat Estate [ Jamaica | St James ]
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
Riley's Estate [ Jamaica | Hanover ]

Relationships (6)

Joseph Robert Bowen
Husband → Wife
Sabina Laurence Bowen
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Joseph Robert Bowen
Brothers
Robert Bowen the younger
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Joseph Robert Bowen
Son → Father
Robert Bowen
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Joseph Robert Bowen
Brothers
Richard Lawrence Bowen
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Joseph Robert Bowen
Brothers
Rev. John Grizzle or Grizell Bowen
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Joseph Robert Bowen
Assignor → Assignee
Samuel Dare
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Notes →
Samuel Dare pursued the award for Duckett Spring as assignee of J.R. Bowen and his wife Sabina '£1000...1793' This had presumably been a legacy to the...