Dear List,
Might people be interested in a developing website on George Africanus
c1760-1834 of Wolverhampton and Nottingham? He was baptised in 1763 at St.
Peter's Wolverhampton and was a house servant to the Molyneux family, who
were Ironmasters there. Those of you who know the Wolverhampton Wanderers
know the ground there which are in the gardens of the Molyneux house.
George Africanus moved to Nottingham and married Esher Shaw a Nottingham
girl in 1788 and has considerable information relating to him and his
property and occupations in the Nottinghamshire Archives Nottingham City
Museums and Local Studies library. George's obituary of 1834 declares him to
be a native of Sierra Leone.
The Nottingham City Museum Service has researched his descendants to three
and mounted a exhibition about George Africanus on which the website is
based. His only surviving granddaughter Ester Africanus Cropper married
Edward Turnbull a St Pancras, London man in Nottingham in 1865 and was there
with her husband three children in 1881. We hope to find more about them. It
would be wonderful to trace a living descendant.
The website is a present a private one but will be developed for the
Nottingham City Museums as quickly as we can actually get a web presence for
the Museums. There is much more information about George and some of the
Nottingham anti-slavery meetings that we will put in the website, as well as
the most up-to-date information we have on his descendants.
The Africanus website is at
http://WWW.innotts.co.uk/~denny/heroes/afric.html>
I welcome comments on the site and would be happy to share what we know
about George Africanus.
Suella Postles
Community Historian
Nottingham City Museums & Galleries
Brewhouse Yard
Castle Boulevard
Nottingham
NG7 1FB
Tel : 0115 - 915 3602
Fax : 0115 - 915 3601
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From: Saltus-Blackwood R (SoCS) [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 24 July 2002 17:25
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Subject: The Moving Here Project
Dear Sara,
I will post your request to the Society for Caribbean Studies (UK)
listserv. The SCS has a large membership (c 300), with many members based
in the UK. To visit their website:
http://www.scsonline.freeserve.co.uk/carib.htm. There are a number of other
listservs you may want to target, but I will post them to you off-list.
For information, the project Sara is referring to is the Moving Here
Project. Information about the project was posted to members a few months
ago when another member of the MH project joined the list (see below).
There is also a project underway at the PRO for Black History Month
entitled BEFORE THE WINDRUSH, an online exhibition on sources for black and
Asian history in Britain, as well as the newly established PRO Advisory
Group (flagged up a few weeks back) - a group keen to make links with
Black, Asian and ethnic minority groups and researchers. So members based
at the PRO, please keep us posted!
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What is Moving Here ?
The vision of Moving Here is to celebrate and explore why people came to
England and record what their experiences are and continue to be. Moving
Here will be available from the end of 2002. Until the end of 2002, this
website will give information about the Moving Here project, including
regular updates on progress. Moving here will focus on the experiences of
people from the Caribbean, South Asian, Irish and Jewish (from Eastern
Europe) communities, from the 1840s to the present day.
From the end of 2002 this website will give free online access to a wide
range of material contributed by our partners. These are thirty Museums,
Archives and Libraries across England. The online resources will range from
art objects and photographs to maps and government documents. We will also
provide information about how you can use these resources for your own
research or to find out more about the communities we cover.
website:http://www.movinghere.org.uk/
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