Dr Thomas Jelly

Resident slave-owner in Jamaica, and writer on post-Emancipation Jamaica in 1847, with family ties to Bath.

There is a conveyance dad 16/02/1822 in the Bath Record Office, Acc/280:

Richard Bowsher of Bath, esq.; Wm Chivers of p. Walcot, esq. and Wm Chivers the younger of the same place, esq.; Sarah Tucker of Bath, widow (late Sarah Jelly, widow); Wm Maltby of London, and Emma his wife (late Emma Jelly, spinster); Thomas Jelly of the island of Jamaica esq.; James Jennings of. co. Hants, schoolmaster, and Adeline his wife (late Adeline Jelly, spinster); Sarah Jelly of p.Walcot; Frederick Jelly of the island of Jamaica, esq.; Harry Jelly of p.Walcot, gent. 2: Company of proprietors of the Kennet and Avon Canal Navigation; Sir Henry Willoughby of Baldham, co. Oxford, Bart., Charles Dundas of Barton Court, co. Berks, esq., Anthony Bacon of Benham Place, co. Berks, esq., John Thomas of Prior Park, co. Som., esq., John Daniel of Bath, wine-merchant, and Joseph Hellicar of Bristol, gent, (devisees in trust of the Will of Joseph Penny of Bath, corn-factor, dec'd), Proprietors of the tolls arising from the navigation of the river Avon: one undivided third part of a long strip of land (la. 4p.) in p. Walcot adjoining the river Avon and lands called Kingsmeads; also a long strip of land (37 p.) in p. Walcot adjoining the river Avon and land called Kingsmeads; both plots being used as towing paths. Plans.

Endorsed with stamp of the Great Western Railway Company, Deed No 3354. with transcript., https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/7e955833-bcce-40f8-8ba5-024db3a330ff [accessed 18/11/2019].