Charlotte Haydon (Cox) White (abt. 1800 - aft. 1847)

Wife of George White — married 3 Mar 1822 in Parish St George the Martyr Middlesex

Descendants

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Biography

Charlotte (Cox) White was born in Jamaica.

Charlotte was born 1804, in Rio Bueno, Trelawny, Jamaica, according to her father's will of 1822 There is no mention of her mother, and her heritage is unclear (there was a family tale recounted by later family generations, of some ancestor possibly having mixed heritage),. She passed away after 1847. Death after date based on birth year (1847) of last known child born to the family. It is assumed that her middle name of Haydon was the surname of a previous female ancestor. The use of Haydon as a middle name has continued down the line up to the present generation.

This next bit is not easy, but needs to be clearly acknowledged; new record sources (Former British Colonial Dependencies, Slave Registers 1813-34, on Ancestry), suggest that her father Reuben Cox had about 10 enslaved people of African or Creole descent, and following his death in 1822, one of them, Cordelia Wallace aged about 10, listed as being "sold" to "Miss Charlotte H Cox" In the 1823 Slave registers. And also in the same Register year, a Robert Stuart of St James parish Jamaica is listed in having transferred to him, the others of Reubens' enslaved people, transferred to him. In the 1832 register, there is listed against Robert Stuart, a (name illegible) baby slave child of Cordelia Wallace -possibly Jessy according to the Ancestry transcription. it is not know what had happened to Cordelia (or later, the child) and I assume they were separated. While the British slave trade itself (ie taking African peoples to the Caribbean etc for slavery purposes), was ended in about 1804, it was not until 1834 that slavery itself was abolished in Jamaica. Robert Stuart was probably well rewarded financially for his "loss", though for a period of some years after slavery, those enslaved people had to still work for their masters via a system of "apprenticeship". So Jessy Wallace may have grown up as a "free child" I would love to be know the rest of her story.

Sources

• "England and Wales Census, 1851," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGNN-SQG : 9 November 2019), Charlotte White in household of George White, Saint Lukes Chelsea, Middlesex, England; citing Saint Lukes Chelsea, Middlesex, England, p. 36, from "1851 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO HO 107, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 24 May 2016, 17:47), entry for Charlotte Haydon(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:M918-B2M); contributed by various users.
• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 10 May 2016, 10:49), entry for Charlotte Haydon(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:M9KD-QQQ); contributed by various users.
• Parish records for St George the Martyr Middlesex
• the will of Reuben Cox England and Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills 1384-1858
• Former British Colonial Dependencies, Slave Registers 1813-34 (year date 1823, and searched under Charlotte Cox or Reuben Cox)