???? - 1874
British Army officer, son, residuary co-heir and administrator of John Willis (q.v.). Browne Willis was party to the Chancery suit of Pratt v Willis into which was paid the compensation for several estates in Jamaica which his father had owned or over which his father had claims, and of a second suit of Fuller v Willis which concerned first his father's and then his own status as either mortgagee-in-posession or receiver of Fuller's Rest and Thetford estates. His relationship to the 18th century antiquarian Browne Willis, whose namesake he presumably was, has not yet been established by LBS.
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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Name in compensation records
Willis Browne
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Wealth at death
£600
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Occupation
Soldier
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£22 13s 8d
Claimants in List E or Chancery cases
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£4,565 16s 7d
Claimants in List E or Chancery cases
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£2,140 3s 6d
Claimants in List E or Chancery cases
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£1,622 16s 1d
Claimants in List E or Chancery cases
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£639 19s 5d
Claimants in List E or Chancery cases
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£2,391 11s 3d
Claimants in List E or Chancery cases
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£1,690 19s 10d
Claimants in List E or Chancery cases
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£6,057 9s 3d
Claimants in List E or Chancery cases
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£2,489 14s 5d
Claimants in List E or Chancery cases
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£2,170 0s 4d
Claimants in List E or Chancery cases
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£1,331 1s 3d
Claimants in List E or Chancery cases
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£793 9s 7d
Claimants in List E or Chancery cases
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£2,565 15s 3d
Claimants in List E or Chancery cases
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£169 9s 6d
Claimants in List E or Chancery cases
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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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1826 [EA] - → Receiver
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1826 [EA] - → Receiver
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1826 [EA] - → Receiver
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1831 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Receiver
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1826 [EA] - → Receiver
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1826 [EA] - → Receiver
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1826 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Receiver
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1826 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Receiver
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1826 [EA] - 1827 [LA] → Receiver
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1826 [EA] - → Receiver
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1825 [EA] - → Heir-at-law
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Heir-at-law → Deceased
Notes→
Also father and...
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Winchester, Hampshire, Wessex, England
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1787 - 1861
Enslaved boy on Unity Valley Pen, Jamaica. Manumitted in 1795 by David Barclay and removed to Philadelphia, with 29 other freed persons from the estate, where he was placed under the care of Society for Improving the Condition of Free Blacks.
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.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2026
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Browne Willis', Legacies of
British Slavery database, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/42643
[accessed 4th April 2026].
