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Merchant Montego Bay, Jamaica. Son of Mendele Marks, married Phoebe Levy, daughter of Aharon Levi, in 1799. Father of Emanuel (1803) and Hannah Marks (1805), both born in Jamaica. Hannah married Barnet Isaacs (q.v.). Owned a shop in St James. In 1828 the St Jago Gazette reported that a 'slave girl named Phillis' had been arrested for 'higgling' [stealing] from Marks' shop. He is named as a juror during the trial of the Baptist missionary Thomas Burchell. Marks refused to give his support to the charges brought against Burchell for inciting the enslaved.
Ashkenazi Congregation English and German Jews, Kingston Jamaica 1788-1905: Register of Births, Jamaica Family Search,
St Jago Gazette,, 25th October-1st November 1828
Eli Faber, Jews, Slaves and the Slave Trade: setting the record straight (New York, 1998), pp. 244, 308-09.
William Fitzer Burchell & Thomas Burchell, Memoir of Thomas Burchell: Twenty-two Years a Missionary in Jamaica (London, 1849), p. 199.
We are grateful to Jonathan Lambert for his help with this entry.
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Spouse
Phoebe Levy
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Children
Emanuel Marks; Hannah Marks
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Occupation
Merchant
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Religion
Jewish
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£140 10s 0d
Awardee
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Father-in-law → Son-in-law
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1805 - 22nd Apr 1887
Born into slavery in Carriacou, Grenada, Malvina Wells became a lady's maid in Edinburgh and a trusted family friend to her employers.
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:
'Solomon Marks', Legacies of British Slavery database, [accessed 21st September 2024].
