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James Stirling - Isle of Wight

Placename: Isle of Wight, England
Layer: WA Legacies of British Slavery - biographical data
Type: Other

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Latitude: 50.793
Longitude: -1.107389
Start Date: 1832-12-11
End Date: 1832-12-11

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Biographical information: Stirling returned with his family to England for an extended visit in 1832. Aboard the Sulphur they reached the Isle of Wight on 11 December. They returned to the family home at Pirbright Lodge, as well as Ellen's family home in Woodbridge. [1, p 227]
Links to slaver: Stirling had multiple connections to the slave trade. His intergenerational family businesses traded in slave-produced goods in the United States and Caribbean. His brother Walter Stirling received compensation for the loss of enslaved people in Guiana and Barbados. Stirling was stationed in the Royal Navy at Jamaica, where his Uncle Charles Stirling was Commander-in-Chief. They received prize money for capturing ships, some of which contained slave-produced goods. Stirling's father-in-law James Mangles owned a ship which transported enslaved people between Africa and the Caribbean. [Georgie refs]
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