Susanne Barclay Alves

Susan Barclay Fraser

• Born in 1807 - British Guiana, West Indies
• Deceased September 10, 1874 - Guiana, aged 67 years old
• Parents: Simon Fraser 1780-1840 and Maria Barclay 1782-1862

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Susan Barclay Fraser was known to many of her descendants as 'SBA'. Her first marriage was to Wolfert Katz, a prominent planter in British Guiana by whom she had a daughter who married Edmund Field. Her second marriage was to John Alves (1802-1857) with whom she had 4 children.

Biography

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/1295948548

Wolfert Katz, the largest slave-owner in the colonies of Berbice, Essequebo and Demerara with 2,000 slaves in 1826 according to John Innes.

Married Susan Barclay, the daughter of Simon Fraser and Maria Barclay and granddaughter of Hugh Fraser of Craigscorrie. The marriage broke down in acrimony, Wolfert Katz placing an advertisement in the Times to deny responsibility for her debts in 1829.

Susan Barclay Katz identifed Maria Barclay Katz as her only lawful daughter born in wedlock. However, there were at least four other children of Wolfert Katz identified in the compensation records: William, Ellen, Susanna and George.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/1313430580

Née Susan Barclay Fraser, daughter of Simon Fraser, estranged wife of Wolfert Katz (q.v.) who remarried John Alves (q.v.).

Susan Barclay Katz maintained that her daughter Maria Barclay was the sole legitimate child of her marriage with Wolfert Katz. It is not clear what was the background to this: Wolfert Katz's eldest son was William Katz, now of Fimingham Kent, whose wife gave birth to a son on 30th July 1826 [sic] at Pontscroff near L'Orient in France.

September 10 [1874], at The Whim, Berbice, British Guiana, [death of] Susan Barclay, relict of John Alves, Esq., late of Enham-place, Hampshire, and Berbice, aged 67. She left effects under £6000.

Family

Spouses and children

Married January 9, 1826, Plantation Palmyra, to Wolfert Katz †1835 with

1. F Maria Barclay Katz 1828-1864

Married in 1837, London, Middlesex, United Kingdom, to John Alves 1802-1857 with

1. F Lucy Amelia Alves 1839-1916
2. F Sarah L Alves ca 1839-
3. M John Alves 1840-1882
4. F Margaret Matheson Alves 1842-1897
5. M William Alves 1842-1892
6. M Willie Alves †1892

Records

British Guiana Colonists Index "F"

https://www.vc.id.au/tb/bgcolonistsF.html

FRASER, Susan Barclay
Born: ABT 1807
Married KATZ, Wolfert Esq.: 9 JAN 1826, Pln. Palmyra, Berbice
Married ALVES, John: 20 APR 1837, Cheltenham GLS
Died: 10 SEP 1874, Whim House, Corentyne Coast

Susan Barclay Fraser in the Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 < AncestrySharing >
Name Susan Barclay Fraser
Gender Female
Age 2
Birth Date 13 Jul 1807
Baptism Date 13 Sep 1809
Baptism Place Inverness,Inverness,Scotland
Father Simon Fraser
Mother Maria Barclay

Susan Barclay Alves In England & Wales, Index of Wills and Probates, 1853-1943 < MyHeritage >
Name Susan Barclay Alves
Event Year 1875
Death Sep 10 1874
Record Type Letter of Administration
Sons and executors: John Alves, Willam Alves
Co Executor: Edward Cusack Dillon

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/8119

Claim Notes

Parliamentary Papers p. 317.

T71/885: claim by Wolfert Katz, as owner. Counterclaim from 'The firm of Baring Brothers & Co. by their attorney William Ross, mortgage executed by claimants in favour of counterclaim dated 30th August 1824 for £81,717 19s 0d. WK's replication denying legal execution of sd mortgage'. Supplemental claim by Susan Barclay Katz (widow of Wolfert Katz), 'reciting her marriage to have taken place in community of goods and that according to the Laws of the colony she is entitled to one half of the compensation money and also to one fourth of the remaining moiety as Guardian of her daughter Maria Barclay Katz'. Awarded to Edward Briant and George Gottlieb Lowenfeld, as executors of the claimant.

T71/445 p. 557: Edward Briant registered 1 enslaved person in 1834, bought from William Katz.

Times 09/02/1829 p. 3: advertisement stating 'The undersigned gives public notice by these presents, that he will not consider himself LIABLE for any DEBTS contracted subsequent to this date by his wife, Mrs S.B.Katz - Berbice Dec 6 1828.'

T71/1252: counterclaim shows S.B. Katz, of Abercromby Place, Edinburgh, widow of Wolfert Katz., March 1836. S. B. Katz asserted that Wolfert Katz had only one child born in lawful wedlock - her daughter Maria Barclay Katz.

T71/1252: withdrawal on 13/10/1836 of S.B. Katz's claim and consent to pay the compensation to Messrs. Baring Brothers, or the executors of Wolfert Katz, who have granted a power to the said Messrs. Baring Brothers to receive the same.

References

1. https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/80241441/person/...
   1. 1828 • Berbice, British Guiana William Katz denied she was his child and unsuccessfully sued for divorce on the grounds of adultery.
2. https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/16647028/person/...
   1. Times 22/4/1837 p 7: Marriages: 'On the 20th inst. at Cheltenham, John Alves, Esq, eldest son of the late William Alves, of Enham House, Hampshire, to Susan Barclay, dau. of Simon Fraser Esq. and widow of the late W. Katz Esq.'
   2. Death: 10 Sep 1874 Corentyne Coast, Berbice The Colonist: ALVES ‐On the 10th, at Whim House, Corentyne Coast, Mrs. Alves, relict of the late John Alves, Esq., Pln. Rose Hall, Berbice.
3. https://gw.geneanet.org/harwood1?n=fraser&oc=&p=susan+barclay
4. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/1313430580 cites
   1. T71/1252; 'Birth anouncements surnames I to Z from the London Times' transcribed by Thomas Kidman, which gives as reference Times 01/11/1837 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyggbs/VitalRecords/ItoZBirthsLon... [accessed 15/08/2011].
   2. Manchester Courier 22/10/1874, from 'Persons affiliated w/Guyana in British Newspapers
   3. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyggbs/Transcriptions/LisaB/Death... [accessed 04/04/2016]; National Probate Calendar 1875.
5. https://www.spanglefish.com/slavesandhighlanders/index.asp?pageid=1...