Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI001779
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3878
Case Name Elizabeth
Register Date 1808
Year 1811
Recaptive Number 1540
Person Name Tarro
Alternative or Transcribed Name Parro
Modern Name Interpretation Taro
Transcribed Age 11
Age Category Child (3 to 13 years)
Transcribed Sex Girl
Sex Female
Transcribed Height (ft.) 4'4 3/4
Height (in) 52.75
Height (cm) 133.99
Physical Characteristics Unspecified Mark
Transcribed Description Scar front of right ear: small mark on right ancle
Digits
Disposal
Language Association Temne
Documented African Nation
Possible Dialect
Travel & Court Related Information
Government Department Colonial and Foreign Offices, Great Britain
Court Condemned Court of Vice Admiralty, Freetown
Embarkation Region Forests of West Africa
Embarkation Port Unknown
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship Tigris
Capture Date 1811-04-04
Arrival Date
Sentence Date 1811-06
Intended Destination Region Brazil
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation Freetown
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source CO267/31; Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 1465-1551
Digitization Endangered Archives Programme, 2009. “Before the War, After the War: Preserving History in Sierra Leone,” British Library. Available online: https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP284; Endangered Archives Programme, 2011. “Nineteenth Century Documents of the Sierra Leone Public Archives,” British Library. Available online: https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP443. Padraic Scanlan donated materials from CO267.
Transcription SlaveVoyages, www.slavevoyages.org (accessed 2024)
Name Interpreter SlaveVoyages, www.slavevoyages.org (accessed 2024)
Digital Archivists
Voyage ID (Slave Voyages) V7669
Researcher Notes
List of Source(s)