Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI000390
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3813
Case Name Penel
Register Date 1809-08-12
Year 1809
Recaptive Number 95
Person Name Coley
Alternative or Transcribed Name Celey
Modern Name Interpretation Kole
Transcribed Age 9
Age Category Child (3 to 13 years)
Transcribed Sex B
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 4'1
Height (in) 49
Height (cm) 124.46
Physical Characteristics Blister
Transcribed Description Blister on left elbow & right arm
Digits
Disposal Apprenticed to Patience Richards (Nova Sco...
Language Association Multiethnic
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 Rivers of West Africa
Embarkation Port Rio Pongo
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship
Capture Date
Arrival Date
Sentence Date 1809-08-12
Intended Destination Region British Caribbean
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source CO267/31; Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 82-99
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) V7557
Researcher Notes
List of Source(s)