UCL

Benjamin Airay Watson

Profile & Legacies Summary

1755 - ????

Biography

Given as Benjamin Airey Watson. Owner of Emsall in Dominica, which he purchased c. 1829. Dead by 1832. The compensation payments for the enslaved people on the estate were awarded to the Roseau merchants Alexander Dalrymple and Frederick Hervey Garraway: it is not yet clear whether this was as mortgagees/creditors or as trustees/executors.

  1. Watson, Benjamin Airay, s. Benjamin of Oxford gent. TRINITY COLL. Matric. 18/04/1771 aged 16. BCL 1779.

  2. Watson, Benjamin Lucas, 1s. Benjamin Airay, of Isle of Dominica. West Indies, gent. Pembroke COLL., matric, 25 March, 1833, aged 18, scholar 1833-8 ; B.A. from St. Mary Hall 1838, M.A. 1839, chapiain of the County Prison, Dorchester, sometime of Penrith, Australia, died 23 April, 1873, father of Henry A., and of John L.


Sources

TNA PWLB1 11/53 Emsall.

  1. Ancestry.com, Oxford University Alumni, 1500-1886 [database online]

  2. Ancestry.com, Oxford University Alumni, 1500-1886 [database online]

Further Information

Absentee?
Spouse
Dorothea Lucas
Children
Benjamin Lucas

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
1829 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Owner
Emsall (?) [ Dominica ]
1832 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Previous owner
Emsall (?) [ Dominica ]

Relationships (1)

Benjamin Airay Watson
Son-in-law → Father-in-law
Benjamin Lucas
Details
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Unconfirmed genealogical material online shows the wife of Benjamin Airay Watson as Dorothea...