1774 - 1854
Elizabeth Witter Bucknor, born in Jamaica, half-sister of Isabella Parnther (q.v.), and owner of a group of enslaved people on the Hopewell estate in Hanover Jamaica, whom she had inherited under the will of her mother Ann Bucknor (later Parnther) in 1794.
T71/915 (p. 10) Hanover claim no. 94 identifies her as spinster, Great Britain owner-in-fee. T71/1608 letter 28/08/1835 from E.W. Bucknor Hatfield Hertfordshire sets out the background to the claim and states that Elizabeth Witter Bucknor came to Britain in 1824 'from indisposition and other causes.' 聽 1. 1851 census online; FreeUKGen, England and Wales Free BMD Database, Deaths, 1837-1983 [database online].
Absentee?
British/Irish
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Name in compensation records
E. Witter Bucknor
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£391 13s 11d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
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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] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
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Half-sisters
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Daughter → Father
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Sisters
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Sister-in-law → Brother-in-law
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Half-sister → Half-brother
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Sister-in-laws
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Daughter → Mother
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Vicarage Churchyard, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, South-east England, England
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