Mrs Eliza Labalmondiere (née Douglas)

Awarded the compensation with her brother Joseph Douglas (q.v.) for La Bonne Mere in British Guiana as executors and trustees of Julien [sic] LaBalmondiere.

1. Mrs Eliza LaBalmondiere, widow aged 67 born Scotland 'Proprietor of an estate in the West Indies' was living in 1851 at Bray in Berkshire with her son-in-law John Jeane Coney and daughter Eliza Munro Coney born Bathwick Somerset aged 47.

2. Death of Elizabeth LaBalmondiere aged 83 registered St George Hanover Q1 1866; burial at Kensal Green of Green Street Grosvenor Square aged 83 03/03/1866; will of Elizabeth Labalmondiere widow late of Brighton who died 26/02/1866 at Green street Grosvenor Square proved 19/04/1866 by Douglas William Parish Labalmondiere, the son, effects under £2000. (Douglas William Parish La Balmondiere served as Acting Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in 1868-9).

3. Joseph Julian LaBalmondiere was the son of a French planter who died in 1772. Joseph Julian LaBalmondiere came to Britain after his own career as a planter, married Elizabeth Douglas in Edinburgh in 1801 and settled in Bath in 1803, where they had 6 daughters and two sons.

4. Will of Joseph Julian Labalmondiere [formerly of the colony of Demerary, lately residing in Bath but now] of Gloucester [made 15/03/1822] was proved 05/05/1823. He provided a lump sum of £2000 and an annuity of £1500 to his widow, a legacy of £500 to his sister-in-law Arabella Douglas, and another annuity of £20 to Mrs Jesse Stewart Robertson, widow of the late James Robertson. He provided annuities for each of his daughters of £50 p.a to be increased to £100 p.a at the age of 21 until marriage; he left his executors and trustees discretion as to the level of support to his sons. Executors and trustees were his wife Elizabeth, Joseph Douglas of the Inner Temple London and William Munro of New Court Gloucs.

5. Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. George Douglas and Annabella Stewart Munro, born 30/10/1782, according to the Family Search genealogical site sourced to Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, which also shows Joseph Douglas (1790-1849) Barrister London as brother of Elizabeth.

T71/885 British Guiana claim no. 589 (La Bonne Mere) (where she appears as Mrs Eliza La Balmondier).

1. 1851 census online; Boyle's 1835 shows Mrs Labalmondiere at 46 Harley Street.

2. FreeUKGen, England and Wales Free BMD Database, Deaths, 1837-1983 [database online]; Ancestry.com, London, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-1980 [database online]; National Probate Calendar 1866; ‘Commissioners of the Metropolitan Police (1829–2009)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 10c; online edn, May 2013 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/theme/96929, accessed 9 Jan 2014]

3. http://www.labalmondiere.co.uk/Joseph%20Julian.htm [accessed 25/01/2012].

4. PROB 11/1670/96.

5. http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personid=I88566&tree=Fasti [accessed 25/01/2012].