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Awardee of the compensation for three enslaved people on Antigua and until 1831 shown as the owner of the enslaved people on Mardenbrough estate on St Kitts. The people on the Mardenbrough estate were sold at a Marshal's sale in 1831, and were purchased by George Wright Mardenbrough's brother Christopher Mardenbrough (q.v.).
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Absentee?
West Indian?
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Name in compensation records
Geo. Wright Mardenborough
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Spouse
Miss Gunthorpe
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£17 16s 0d
Awardee
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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:
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1817 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Owner
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Brothers
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Brother → Sister
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Son → Father
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1761 - ????
"Free quadroon woman" and mother of eleven children; independently wealthy, perhaps through legacies left her by her partners James Tierney (died 1784) and Ebenezer Robertson (died 1825).
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:
'George Wright Mardenbrough', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/423/ [accessed 15th October 2024].
