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William Dodgson

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1823

Biography

Apparently transatlantic slave-owner, dying 11/04/1823 at Quaker's Hall, Demerara. Husband of Martina Esther Dodgson and father of William Jacob Thomas Dodgson (q.v.). Local partner in Stabroek of the Lancaster mercantile firm Ridley and Dodson until 1804, but also shown as JP of Ulverstone in his death notice of 1823.

Sources

Bath Chronicle 31/05/1823, 'On the 11th of April, at Quaker's Hall, Demerara, after an illness of three months' duration, which he bore with exemplary fortitude and resignation, William Dodgson, Esq., of Ulverstone, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County Palatinate of Lancaster, leaving a widow and numerous family to lament the loss of one justly esteemed by all who knew him', from 'Persons affiliated w/Guyana in British Newspapers', [accessed 04/04/2016].

Further Information

Absentee?

Transatlantic

Spouse

Martina Esther

Children

William Jacob Thomas; Thomas Steele

Associated Estates (1)

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:

SD - Association Start Date
SY - Association Start Year
EA - Earliest Known Association
ED - Association End Date
EY - Association End Year
LA - Latest Known Association

1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Joint owner

Now or Never [ British Guiana | Demerara ]

The co-owner described in 'J. Matthews and Dodgson' has been inferred to be William Dodgson of Ulverstone given given that the latter's widow succeeded to the estate.