16th Dec 1781 - 9th Aug 1818
Likely the Oswald Brode, son of Dr Richard Brodie and his wife Jane, born 16/12/1781 and baptised in Trelawny, Jamaica, 10/05/1785. Married Mary Ann Palmer Knowles in Trelawny 02/06/1810.
Sworn affidavit dated 28/10/1836 from Elizabeth Brodie, now of York Street, Portman Square, London, formerly of St Ann's Jamaica: her brother Oswald Brodie died circa 1818 leaving two minor daughters Elizabeth (now Elizabeth Turner) and Louisa Brodie, of age on 11/12/1836.
Death at St Ann, Jamaica, Oswald Brodie of Flamstead Estate, 09/08/1818.
Familysearch.org, Jamaica Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880 [database online].
T71/959 St Ann claim no. 789 (Lawrence Park).
Gentleman's Magazine Vol. LXXXVIII Part 2 p. 459 (November 1818).
We are grateful to David Barker for his assistance with compiling this entry.
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Spouse
Mary Ann Palmer Knowles
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Children
Louisa, Elizabeth
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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:
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1815 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Receiver
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1817 [EA] - 09/08/1818 [ED] → Owner
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1823 [EA] - → Other
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1820 [EA] - → Not known
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1817 [EA] - 1818 [EY] → Executor
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1817 [EA] - 1818 [EY] → Executor
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1817 [EA] - → Executor
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Father → Daughter
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Father → Daughter
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Father-in-law → Son-in-law
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Son → Father
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Uncle → Nephew
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Uncle → Niece
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Uncle → Niece
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Uncle → Nephew
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Brother → Sister
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1785 - 1854
Jamaican-born widow of a prominent slave-owner; resident in Britain following the death of her husband in 1818. Accused - and acquitted - of the cruel treatment of some enslaved people whom she brought to Britain with her.
The Buff Bay plantation was a sugar estate next to the Buff Bay River, south of Charlestown in Jamaica. By 1839, the estate was 840 acres.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2022
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Oswald Brodie', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146641397 [accessed 22nd May 2022].
