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Richard Augustus Fahie

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1828

Biography

Slave-owner on St Kitts, where he owned Belle Tete, and on Tortola, where in 1798 he was shown as owning lots nos. 78 (sugar) and 81. He died c. 1829.

Further Information

Absentee?
West Indian

Associated Estates (1)

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
1817 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Owner
Belle Tete [ St Kitts | St Anne Sandy Point ]

The estate appears to have been in financial difficulty by the time Fahie died, since in 1829 the Slave Register shows '85 enslaved people were acquired by Hugh Ryley Semper and George Fahie, joint owners "by purchase on the 1st Oct. 1829 of the mortgage and judgement claims against late Richard A Fahie".'

Relationships (1)

Richard Augustus Fahie
Other relatives
George Augustus W. Fahie
Details
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George Augustus W. Fahie has been inferred by LBS to have been son or nephew of Richard Augustus...