1774 - 21st Jan 1848
Awarded part of the compensation for the enslaved people on the Hyde estate in St Thomas-in-the-Vale Jamaica with her husband Sir William Lewis George Thomas and her sister and brother-in-law, Jane and Robert Lewis Fitzgerald (all of whom q.v.).
St Thomas-in-the-Vale no. 294; memorial from William Lewis George Thomas and Robert Lewis Fitzgerald 09/04/1835: their wives were daughters of Richard Welch esq. formerly Chief Justice, Hyde estate left by will for payment of legacies of 拢2500 each to his younger children after payment of annuity to widow (who died in 1813). A son, also Richard, died in 1809. A third daughter Flavell [?= Favel] died intestate, her remaining sisters each shared 拢500 of her portion; the youngest daughter Georgina died unmarried, so her property went equally to 2 surviving sisters. So each had 拢4500, received interest at 5% until 1831, since then arrears have accumulated.
Absentee?
British/Irish
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Maiden Name
Welch
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Name in compensation records
Elizabeth Thomas (wife of George Thomas)
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Spouse
William Lewis George Thomas
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Children
Sophia; George; Eliza; Helen; William; Montague
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£2,660 0s 11d
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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1809 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
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Sister-in-law → Brother-in-law
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Sisters
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Sister-in-law → Brother-in-law
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Wife → Husband
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Aunt → Nephew
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Sister-in-laws
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Sisters
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Sisters
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Daughter → Father
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Daughter → Mother
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Sister → Brother
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Melcombe Regis, Weymouth, Dorset, Wessex, England
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Dale Park, Madehurst, Sussex, South-east England, England
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