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Louis Edmund Thornton

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1830

Biography

London merchant, absentee slave-owner on Berbice, son of Judith Philip and Edmund Thornton (both of whom q.v.).

  1. Will of Louis Edmund Thornton of Norton Street Middlesex proved 27/09/1830. In the will he left his real and personal property in trust (one of his trustees was Crawford Davison Kerr, q.v.) to fund his monetary legacies, which included £1500 between his thee sisters. He instructed that drinking cups be given to 'the sons of my father' i.e. 'William Wheeler [sic] Butler Edmund Thornton and William Thomas Thornton'. He left an annuity of £300 p.a. to his wife Elizabeth Charlotte (also given as Charlotte Elizabeth), together with a lump-sum of £1000.

Sources

  1. PROB 11/1776/262

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish?
Spouse
Charlotte Elizabeth or Elizabeth Charlotte

Associated Estates (1)

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:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1825 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Joint owner
Lonsdale [ British Guiana | Berbice | Berbice - East Bank ]

Relationships (4)

Louis Edmund Thornton
Executor → Testator
Benjamin Harper
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Notes→
Louis Edmund Thornton renounced the executorship in...
Louis Edmund Thornton
Son → Mother
Judith Philip
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Louis Edmund Thornton
Natural Son → Father
Edmund Thornton
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Notes→
This is based on the will of Louis Edmund Thornton, in which he described two identifiable sons of Edmund Thornton as 'sons of my...
Louis Edmund Thornton
Testator → Trustee
Crawford Davison Kerr
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Addresses (1)

Norton Street, London, Middlesex, London, England
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