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Returnee to Scotland in the 1760s, owner of Dundee Estate in Jamaica, which in 1800 he left in trust for his son William and his issue, failing which to his son Thomas and his issue, failing which to his daughters Agnes and Margaret Jemima.
Marriage, 05/08/1788, at Edinburgh of James Stothert of Cargen and Miss Margaret Cockburn, daughter of the late Thomas Cockburn Esquire of Rawchester, Berwickshire, writer to the signet.
The account books and letter books of James Stothert (including West India papers, "lists of negroes and valuations") are held at the National Records of Scotland.
James Stothert Papers, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=clementsmss;id=navbarbrowselink;cginame=findaid-idx;cc=clementsmss;view=reslist;subview=standard;didno=umich-wcl-M-1650sto [accessed 01/10/2015]; will of James Stothert of Cargen in the stewartry of Kircudbright Kincardineshire proved 10/07/1800, PROB 11/1345/109.
Scots Magazine Vol. 50 p. 414 (August 1788).
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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Spouse
Margaret Cockburn
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Children
William; Thomas; Agnes
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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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1786 [EA] - 1800 [EY] → Owner
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Town house
Cargen Lodge [Built]
description → James Stothert reportedly built a town house on Castle Street Edinburgh at a cost of £1000 in the 1780s or 1790s. This might or might not be the same house as Cargen Lodge, known to have been the...
notes → Frances Wilkins, 'Houses that slavery built', Black History 365 Vol. 2 Issue 1 Summer 2008 ...
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Country house
Cargen [Purchased]
description → James Stothert reportedly extensively remodelled the house on the Cargen estate which he had bought c. 1780....
notes → Frances Wilkins, 'Houses that slavery built', Black History 365 Vol. 2 Issue 1 Summer 2008 ...
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Father → Son
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Cargen House, Troqueer, Kirkcudbrightshire, Southern Scotland, Scotland
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1789 - 14th Mar 1860
Possibly the first 'ethnic minority' MP to be elected (in 1832) to the House of Commons.
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:
'James Stothert of Cargen', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146644367 [accessed 27th April 2024].
