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Jacob Bucknor

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1834

Biography

Creole, born in Hanover Jamaica, but later an absentee slave-owner, recorded with five enslaved people in Hanover in 1817 and by 1829 with John Williams 'still a runaway'.

  1. Will of Jacob Bucknor of Gentleman of Bedminster Somerset [made 21/12/1833] proved 03/06/1834. After modest monetary legacies to two friends or relatives, he left his estate in the proportions 1/3rd and 2/3rd to his nephews John Blagrove Bucknor and Thomas Bucknor.

Sources

  1. PROB 11/1832/166

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish

Relationships (2)

Jacob Bucknor
Son → Father
Thomas Bucknor II
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Tentative relationship only. A Jacob Bucknor was baptised in 1779 in Hanover to Thomas and Frances...
Jacob Bucknor
Brothers
John Mowatt Bucknor
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Addresses (1)

Bedminster, Somerset, South-west England, England
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