John Knapp Sutcliffe

Profile & Legacies Summary

1795 - 1852

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

London solicitor.

Married Frances Mary Hughes St Marylebone 11/01/1827. Shown as of 5 New Bridge Street Blackfriars in 1844, 1847 and 1849. Buried All Souls Kensal Green 04/05/1852 aged 57 of Queens Road Bayswater.

Sources

Ancestry.com, London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 [database online]; London Gazette, Issue 20302, 05/01/1844, p. 51 [advertisement for next-of-kin of Thomas Nordin]; 20747 25/06/1847 p. 2344 [attesting an assignment]; London Gazette, Issue 20945, 13/02/1849, pp. 448-449 [sale of annuity]; Ancestry.com, London, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-1980 [database online].

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Spouse

Frances Mary Hughes (1827)

Occupation

Lawyer

Associated Claims (1)

Addresses (2)

5 New Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, Middlesex, London, England

Details

Queens Road, Bayswater, London, Middlesex, London, England

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Further Information

People of Interest

October alias Robert Barclay

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.

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Documents of Interest

Windsor and Williamsfield Inventory of Slaves 1814 p8

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:
'John Knapp Sutcliffe', Legacies of British Slavery database, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/44161 [accessed 4th April 2026].

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