{"id":21633,"date":"2012-03-22T01:27:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T01:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=21633"},"modified":"2013-07-16T18:25:34","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T18:25:34","slug":"mixed-race-jamaicans-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=21633","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Race Jamaicans in England"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mixed Race Jamaicans in England<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

A Parcel of Ribbons: Eighteenth century Jamaica viewed throught family stories and documents<\/a>
\n2012-01-28<\/p>\n

Ann Powers<\/strong><\/p>\n

The status of\u00a0 mixed race Jamaicans in eighteenth century Jamaica<\/a> was always going to be less than than of white colonists, but it was possible for them to become established and successful in England<\/a>. A case in point are two of the children of Scudamore Winde.<\/p>\n

Ambrose Scudamore Winde (he seems to have dropped the Ambrose early on) was born about 1732 at Kentchurch<\/a> in Herefordshire<\/a>, son of John Winde and Mary Scudamore.\u00a0 The beautiful Kentchurch Court<\/a> is still in the hands of the Scudamore family as it has been for the last thousand years or so. In 1759, following the suicide of his father, he and his brother Robert went to Jamaica where Scudamore Winde became an extremely successful merchant.\u00a0 He was also Assistant Judge of the Supreme Court of the Judicature and a member of the Assembly.<\/p>\n

Like many white colonists of the island he had relationships with several women but did not marry.\u00a0 When he died in late September 1775 he left generous legacies to his various children<\/a>. His business had prospered and a large part of his assets were in the form of debts owed to him. According to Trevor Burnard[1] he had\u00a0 personal assets of \u00a394,273, of which \u00a382,233 were in the form of debts. This would be equivalent to about \u00a39.3 million relative to current retail prices or \u00a3135 million in relation to average wages today.<\/p>\n

Scudamore Winde freed his negro slave Patty who was baptised as Patty Winde in 1778 at Kingston<\/a> when her age was given as about 50.\u00a0 Patty and her daughter Mary were left land that he had bought from Richard Ormonde in Saint Catherine\u2019s<\/a> with the buildings on it, and \u00a3100 Jamaican currency together with two slaves called Suki and little Polly.\u00a0 It is not clear whether Mary was Scudamore Winde\u2019s daughter for although her name is given as Mary Winde she is referred to as a negro rather than mulatto<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Scudamore Winde had a mulatto son called Robert, possibly the son of Patty, who was born about 1759, and three children with Sarah Cox herself a free negro or mulatto (records vary).\u00a0 Her children were Penelope, John and Thomas born between 1768 and 1774.\u00a0 John may have died young and Thomas elected to remain in Jamaica where he had a successful career as a merchant in Kingston.\u00a0 Robert and Penelope travelled to England under the eye of Robert Cooper Lee who was trustee and executor of his close friend Scudamore Winde\u2019s Will…<\/p>\n

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