UCL

Rev. Richard Bickell

Profile & Legacies Summary

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Biography

Curate in Kingston and later Port Royal, then naval chaplain at Port Royal "for a period of about five years all told." Author of The West Indies as they are; or a real picture of slavery: but more particularly as it exists in the island of Jamaica (1825).

Rev. J. Bickell married Eliza, daughter of the late J. Anderson Esquire of Clifford's in the island of Jamaica in Bristol in 1819.


Sources

Lowell Joseph Ragatz, A Guide for the Study of British Caribbean History, 1763-1834: Including the Abolition and Emancipation Movements (1832) vol. 3 p. 480.

Ancestry.com, Bristol, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1935 [database online]; New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register vol. 11 p. 563 (1 July 1819).

We are grateful to Alice Kinghorn for her assistance with compiling this entry.

Further Information

Spouse
Eliza Anderson
Occupation
Clergyman
Religion
Church of England

Associated Estates (2)

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
1820 [EA] - → Joint owner
Unknown [ Jamaica | Clarendon ]
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Owner
whitecroft [ Jamaica | Hanover ]

Legacies Summary

Historical (1)

BooksAuthor?
The West Indies as they are: or a real picture of slavery: but more particularly as it exists in the island of... 1825 
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Relationships (2)

Rev. Richard Bickell
Son-in-law → Father-in-law
John Anderson
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Rev. Richard Bickell
Husband → Wife
Eliza Bickell (née Anderson)
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