UCL

Henry Shirley II

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1812

Biography

Brother of Bernard Shirley and uncle of Henry Shirley III (q.v.).

  1. Will of Henry Shirley [late of the parish of St George..but now resident in Upper Wimpole Street] of Marylebone proved 17/04/1813. The will is very long and the partial summary here is not a subsitute for consulting the will itself, which opens with a request that his body be opened up and investigated. He identified his estates as Hyde Hall and Etingdon in Trelawny and an unnamed coffee estate in St George mortgaged to John Willis and Benjamin Waterhouse (since deceased) of London merchants. He had settled £10,000 on his niece Ann on her marriage to Captain Frederick Leicester, and made a number of financial legacies of other family members, including the natural children of his brother Bernard and Henry Shirley III, to whom the estates went in trust.

Sources

  1. PROB 11/1543/339.

Further Information

Absentee?
Transatlantic
Spouse
Hannah Rock nee Spencer

Associated Estates (8)

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
1798 [EA] - 1801 [LA] → Attorney
Caen Wood  Estate [ Jamaica | St George ]

Caen Wood was shown as 'under the management and direction of the honourble Henry Shirley Esq.' in 1798.

1783 [EA] - 1783 [LA] → Joint owner
Cow Bay Pen [ Jamaica | St David ]

Shown as owner with his wife Hannah Elizabeth.

1801 [EA] - 1812 [EY] → Owner
Etingdon [ Jamaica | Trelawny ]
1812 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Previous owner
Etingdon [ Jamaica | Trelawny ]
- 1812 [EY] → Owner
Hyde Hall [ Jamaica | Trelawny ]
1812 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Previous owner
Hyde Hall [ Jamaica | Trelawny ]
1783 [EA] - 1783 [LA] → Joint owner
Petersfield [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey ]

Henry Shirley had married Hannah Rock, owner

1777 [EA] - 1783 [LA] → Owner
Spring Garden Estate [ Jamaica | St George ]

Shown as owner in 1777-1783. The estate belonged to the family of his wife Hannah Rock nee Spencer.

Relationships (3)

Henry Shirley II
Uncle → Nephew
Henry Shirley III
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Henry Shirley II
Brothers
Bernard Shirley
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Henry Shirley II
Brothers
Edward Shirley
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Notes →
The two men were brothers. Edward Shirley married Hannah Spencer Rock, his brother's...

Addresses (1)

Upper Wimpole Street, London, Middlesex, London, England
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