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Slave-owner on Antigua, inheriting unnamed and as yet untraced estates from her brother Thomas Shephard (q.v.) in 1770. Mother of Lydia Sutton (q.v.).
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Absentee?
Transatlantic?
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Maiden Name
Shephard
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Spouse
Samuel Byam
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Children
Lydia
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Mother → Daughter
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Sister → Brother
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???? - 29th Aug 1873
Free person of colour, slave-owner in Jamaica. Long-term partner and later wife of Thomas Legal Yates. Living in Britain from the mid-1830s until her death in 1873.
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:
'Elizabeth Byam (née Shephard)', Legacies of
British Slavery database, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146655395
[accessed 4th April 2026].
