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Joseph Billinghurst

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1840

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Slave-owner and Crown and colony surveyor on St Vincent, dying in London in 1840.

  1. March 28 [23?] [1827] [Marriage ] at St Vincent's [of] Joseph Billinghurst of Yapton Sussex to Miss Margaret Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Dr Alex. Melville sen. M.D. St Vincent's.

  2. Joseph Billinghurst of St Vincent was listed as a subscriber to Charles Shephard's An Historical Account of the Island of Saint Vincent, published in 1832.

  3. Feb. 6. [1840] At Beaumont-st. Portlandplace, [death of] Joseph Billinghurst, esq. of the island of St. Vincent.


Sources

  1. Gentleman's Magazine Vol. 141 Part I (Jan.-June 1827) p. 557.

  2. Charles Shephard, An Historical Account of the Island of Saint Vincent (1832) pp. vii-xii.

  3. Gentleman's Magazine NS Vol. XIII Part I (Jan.-June 1840) p. 328.

Further Information

Spouse
Margaret Elizabeth Melville

Associated Claims (2)

St Vincent 311 (New Edinburgh)
£699 5s 2d
Awardee
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St Vincent 266
£265 17s 10d
Awardee
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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
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
New Edinburgh [town of] [ St Vincent ]

Joseph Billinghurst owned enslaved people in New Edinburgh, a town in St Vincent.

Addresses (1)

Beaumont Street, Portland Place, London, Middlesex, London, England
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Billinghurst died at Beaumont Street in 1840. It is not yet clear whether he had moved permanently to this address.