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Born 1698, owned Wedderly and Osborn estates in Jamaica. Married Margaret (d. 1791), daughter of James Edgar, a writer in Edinburgh, in 1742, His children were Alexander (d. 1820), James, of Auchingrammont (d. 1810), Handasyde, M.D. (d. 1806), Susan (d. 1778 aged 22) and Charity. Died in 1777. Described as "late of Jamaica, now of Netherhouses [Edinburgh] in 1742.
"Alexander Edgar [junior] matriculated at the University in 1787. He was born in Hamilton, the eldest son of Alexander of Martha Brae, Jamaica. Edgar was a planter in Trelawney, Cornwall, Jamaica."
James Edgar, Genealogical collections concerning the Scottish house of Edgar, with a memoir of James Edgar (1873) pp. 10-12, 64.
University of Glasgow Story, https://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH25721&type=P&o=&start=0&max=20&l= [accessed 30/07/2018].
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Father → Son
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Netherhouses, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Central Scotland, Scotland
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25th Nov 1776 - 1851
Resident clergyman, proponant of religious instruction for enslaved people.
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:
'Alexander Edgar of Auchingrammont and Jamaica', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146660507 [accessed 18th April 2024].
