Ann Katherine Storer
Ann Katherine Storer (née Hill; April 1785, Shropshire, England – 7 May 1854, London) was an estate administrator in Westmoreland, Jamaica, as a receiver of her late husband Anthony Gillbert Storer.[1]
Life[edit]
Ann Katherine Storer was born in April 1785 in Shopshire, England. She was the eldest daughter of Thomas Hill and his wife Ann Katherine Hill.[1] In 1806 she married Anthony Gilbert Storer whose family owned estates in Westmoreland, Jamaica. The Storers lived in Jamaica till 1809 when they returned to Purley Park, in Berkshire. In 1817 Storer was back in Jamaica, but shortly after her husband’s death in 1818 returned to Purley Park with her five surviving children.[1]
As her husband had debts, Evelyn Bazalgette and his other creditors filled a bill of revivor against Storer.[2] Six estates of the Storers became a subject of several lawsuits between the Storers and various creditors, in particular Charles Armstrong and Evelyn Bazelgette. Jamaican Court of Chancery appointed Storer as a joint receiver of her husband’s plantations. It was the only time in a period from 1823 to 1843 when the court appointed more than one receiver, including a woman.[3]
In 1824 Storer was accused of the maltreatment of her black servant from Jamaica Philip Thompson, who claimed that flogging was his usual punishment in the house of the Storers.[1] Despite Thompson’s testimony and supporting statements, Storer was found not guilty.[1]
Ann Katherine Storer died on 7 May 1854 at the age of 69 and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery, Greater London.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Summary of Individual | Legacies of British Slave-ownership". www.ucl.ac.uk. Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership. Retrieved 2020-02-13.
- ↑ Beavan, Charles (1848). Reports of Cases in Chancery: Argued and Determined in the Rolls Court During the Time of Lord Langdale, Master of the Rolls. Saunders and Benning. p. 281. Search this book on
- ↑ Butler, Kathleen Mary (2017-12-15). The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados, 1823-1843. UNC Press Books. p. 94. ISBN 978-1-4696-3979-6. Search this book on
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