Rowland Edward Williams I

Profile & Legacies Summary

1748 - 1826

Biography

Absentee slave-owner on Antigua, dying in England c. 1826.

Will of Rowland Edward Williams of Thames Ditton Surrey proved 16/12/1826. In the will he identified his three estates in Antigua as Old Road Tom Moors and the Cistern, and bequeathed '121 Negroes' which he had purchased: by inference he was tenant-for-life of the estates. He left £1000 to his attorney in Antigua George Betts. He left £20,000 in trust for his wife (increased in a codicil to £37,500), £10,000 for his second son Samuel Henry, £5,000 for his daughter Maria and £10,000 for his daughter Elizabeth. He made provision of £5000 to extinguish some annuities which his son Rowland Edward Louis Charles Williams (q.v. under Rowland Edward Williams II) 'hath most imprudently and destructively to himself granted.' The residuary legatee, unusually, was his son-in-law William Henry Cooper, also a trustee and executor.

Sources

PROB 11/1719/305.

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Spouse

Married but no further details

Children

Maria; Elizabeth; Harriet; Rowland Edward; Samuel Henry;

Associated Estates (2)

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