Sarah Parke then Askew (née Lewis)

Profile & Legacies Summary

1802 - ????

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Sarah Askew widow, awarded part of the compensation for the enslaved people on Springfield in St Thomas-in-the-Vale Jamaica. Probably but not certainly the widow of Rev. George Watson Askew (q.v.), who died in 1831.

Sarah Askew and John Nicol were the persons involved in Privy Council case number 1792_575 (judged in 1837), which describes her as 'late of the said island of Jamaica but at present residing in England widow.'
The will of her husband George Askew (written in 1830, sworn in Jamaica in 1831 and proved in London in 1832) leaves everything to Sarah and thereafter to her only child by her first husband, William Thurnham Parke (baptised in St Andrew, 1820, son of Thomas and Sarah).
Sarah Askew inherited a share in Springfield estate in St Thomas-in-the-Vale from her father John Lewis. The co-owners were her brother James Lewis and sister Elizabeth Nicol.

Sources

T71/855 St Thomas-in-the-Vale no. 225

http://www.privycouncilpapers.org/privy-council-papers/322 [accessed 03/04/2013].
PROB 11/1807/185; Familysearch.org, Jamaica Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880 [database online].
See separate entry for Springfield [2].

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish?

Maiden Name

Lewis

Spouse

[1] Thomas Parke [2] Rev. George Watson Askew

Children

With [1] William Thurnham (1820-)

Associated Claims (1)

Associated Estates (2)

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