I have several scraps of info about Samuel HILTON taken fully from the internet. There are other posts on Rootschat about this family that I have posted but this is a separate angle to my enquiry as it is in a different country.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,617875.msg4668370.html#msg4668370I know he was involved with the Jamaican post office (ran it? or a deputy?) there and also with the Barrett-Browning family's plantation in some way (legal business?)
Addition: I have just reread the Slave Registers and Emily McFatter (his mistress? wife?) was owned by Samuel Barrett at Cinnamon Hill plantation but was considered free. However her owner dallied with signing her manumission! This was the plantation owned by the Barretts, relations of Elisabeth Barrett BrowningHe had a Jamaican wife? or mistress? called Emily or Amelia McFatter or Mc Father. He had at least 3 daughters by her, who all married into English middle-class families:
Sarah who married Henry FENWICK a Liverpool laywer in 1852, lived in LANCS Staines and Wales
Margaret who married Thomas GARDINER a clergyman in 1834, lived in Stanley St Anne's LANCS
Ann who married Charles BOULTBEE a surgeon in 1822 died 1829 in CAMBS.
Also 2 other daughters
Mary died young and unmarried in Cambs. 1830- don't know of her mother
Another Sarah who died in 1822 in Cambs. Don't know of her mother either.
In 1834/5 he settled a property and goods in Jamaica on Emily McFatter and Margaret reputed daughter of Samuel Hilton by Emily McFatter, witnessed by the Mayor of Liverpool, England. According to the slave registers online Emily and Margaret were given their freedom by manumission. Emily was a "quadroon" as they called them in those days. (Hope I do not offend by quoting this term written so long ago)
During his time in England the family were friendly with the family of Adam CLIFF, witnessed marriages appeared at baptisms. The CLIFF were wealthy Liverpool merchants engaged in trade with Jamaica, possibly Samuel worked for the CLIFF's?
Does anyone know of this families time in Jamaica? The girls said they were born in Montego Bay Jamaica 1799-1829 approx.
Gen in NBL England