George Barrow Haynes

1796 - 1825


Biography

Partner with Thomas Lee and Nicholas Russell Garner (each of whom q.v.) in a Liverpool/Barbados merchant firm, and son of General Robert Haynes (q.v.), who according to his [General Robert Haynes'] will made in 1841 had given his son George Haynes since deceased some £15,000 in vivo. Genealogical material online not verified by LBS shows George Barrow Haynes reportedly dying at sea in 1825.

  1. Robert Hayne's son [given as George Haynes, but known to have been George Barrow Haynes] was saved from drowning on his arrival at Liverpool as a child in 1805 by an enslaved man named Hamlet.

  2. His widow Ann remarried, to George F. Shepherd in Bridgetown in 1828.


Sources

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/182937953 [accessed 10/02/2020].

  1. Kevin Dawson, “Enslaved Swimmers and Divers in the Atlantic World,” The Journal of American History, Vol. 92, No. 4, March 2006.

  2. Liverpool Mercury 27/06/1828.

We are grateful to Audrey Dewjee for bringing the story of Hamlet's rescue of George [Barrow] Haynes to the attention of LBS and providing the reference to the above article.


Further Information

Absentee?
Transatlantic

Legacies Summary

Commercial (1)

Name partner
Thomas Lee, Haynes and Company
West India merchant - Barbados  
 

Relationships (4)

Son → Father
Brothers
Brothers
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