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Participant Info
- Slaveholder
- KENSINGTON
- Locations
- Lure Plantation, Tobago
- Researcher
- A Adams
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- kiwifamilytrees AT gmail.com
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- Tobago 27th February 1837 Claim No. 57 Lure Estate, 59 slaves. The claim was made (successfully) by John Larkins Kensington, son and executor of Chas. Kensington - award £1250 19s 1d. (His brother Charles Snell Kensington was a beneficiary under the will of Chas Kensington) Lure Estate sugar plantation had been owned by Charles Kensington, father of John Larkins Kensington (1789-1937). John Larkins purchased the adjacent Lot 11 "Invergordon" (200 acres) increasing the family plantation to 700 acres. In 1824 the Kensington sugar plantation had 92 slaves, 38 males & 67 females, but by 1832 the number of slaves had fallen by a third. "Slave Registers of former British Colonial Dependencies, 1813-1834" records on Ancestry list 17 slaves to John Larkins Kensington. 1820:- Bell, Bessy, Old Flora, Alick, Bat, Congo Tom, Davie, Hume, 1823:- Flora, Britain, Charles, Paul, Prince 1832:- Agnes, Louisa, Paul & Primus." On 31 Jul 1833 the Bill for the Abolition of Slavery was passed and compensation paid to the owners. John's claim, No 57, was adjudicated on 23 May 1836 when he was awarded 1,250/19/1d, for the release of the remaining 59 slaves. His son Charles J. W. Kensington managed the plantation for a while, sold it by 1862 to George K. Forbes, and went on to New Zealand. There are multiple DNA matches within the NZ Kensington family results of descendants of Charles J.W Kensington with people who appear to potentially be black American descendants of John Larkins Kensington.
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