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George Gibson

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Biography

Of London, awarded, as official assignee in bankrupcty of the London merchant firm Keighley & Co., the compensation for enslaved people on Oxford and Spring Garden in St Thomas-in-the-East and Roaring River and Prospect in Westmoreland.  

  1. James Inglish Keighley, Finlay Fergusson and William Armstrong, trading as Keighley, Fergusson & Co., were the subject of a (renewed) commission of bankruptcy on 24/03/1824. The bankruptcy was still unfolding in 1858.

Sources

T71/867 St Thomas-in-the-East nos. 293, 423, 433 434, 435 and 436 and T71/871 Westmoreland nos. 68 and 76.  

  1. London Gazette, Issue 19570, 19/1/21837, p. 3321; ibind. Issue 22086, 22/01/1858, p. 345.

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish
Occupation
Official Assignee

Associated Claims (8)

Jamaica St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey 293 (Oxford)
£1,992 7s 11d
Awardee (Official assignee)
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Jamaica St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey 423
£105 5s 11d
Awardee
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Jamaica St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey 433 (Spring Garden)
£1,679 15s 10d
Awardee (Official assignee)
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Jamaica St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey 434 (Spring Garden)
£584 19s 3d
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Jamaica St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey 435
£30 18s 10d
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Jamaica St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey 436
£91 13s 1d
Awardee (Official assignee)
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Jamaica Westmoreland 68 (Fort William and Roaring River Estates)
£6,670 2s 7d
Awardee (Official assignee)
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Jamaica Westmoreland 76 (Prospect Estate)
£1,992 8s 6d
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Addresses (1)

72 Basinghall Street, City of London, Middlesex, London, England
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