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Finding who owned/managed Yorkshire Hall Plantation in Demerara (Guyana) in early 19th century?
Not a direct answer but may provide you with additional leads.
There are numerous references to "Yorkshire Hall" and William Chichester (as chichester, chionester, and chishester) at this website: vc....
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Did Richard Hill and Blanche Todd live in India in the late 19th Century?
Re the possibility of India - this seems unlikely not just from a chronological viewpoint but also from the term Commissary. That was a rank /appointment in the East India Company's or British Indian ...
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Did Richard Hill and Blanche Todd live in India in the late 19th Century?
I am not sure where the graphic below comes from originally but I clipped it from page 2 of 9 at http://spotidoc.com/doc/53190/menu---mccormick-and-schmick-s.
I think that the newspaper clipping (...
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Finding who owned/managed Yorkshire Hall Plantation in Demerara (Guyana) in early 19th century?
One of the other UCL pages notes that in 1826 Yorkshire Hall was: "In lawful possession of Thomas Skelton by his attorney William Chichester". That suggests to me that William did not (then) own ...
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Where to find Will of Giles Chichester from 1820s, probably in Somerset or Guyana?
I have just been contacted by a descendant of Giles Chichester from Demerara in Guyana, and for the first time I expect to be able to assemble evidence that he was living in Demerara like his two ...
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