James Sligo Jameson

1856 - 1888  (32 years)

• Name	James Sligo Jameson
  Birth	17 Aug 1856	Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	17 Aug 1888	Bangala, Belgium Congo (Now Congo Repubic)   [2, 3]
  Wills, Bequeaths & Pobate	23 Feb 1889	London, England   [2, 3]
  Wills, Bequeaths & Pobate	7 Feb 1890	Dublin, Ireland   [3]
  JAMESON James Sligo 7 February James Sligo Jameson late of 14 Albert Mansions Victoria-street Middlesex Esquire. Died 17 August 1888. Probate granted in London the23 Feb 1889. Resealed at the Principal Registry Dublin. [43] Effects in Ireland £31,705 11s 9d.
  Person ID	I199	Whiskey-Jamesons

  
  

  Father	Andrew Jameson,   b. 18 Sep 1812, Dublin, Ireland d. 25 Jan 1872, Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland (Age 59 years)
  Mother	Margaret Cochrane,   b. 1807, Strandhill, Co. Sligo, Ireland d. 5 Aug 1856, Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland (Age 49 years)
  Marriage	14 Feb 1852	County Sligo, Ireland   [4]
  Family ID	F43	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ethel Durand,   b. 21 May 1864, Simla, Simla Hills District, Punjab, India d. 14 Oct 1933 (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	Jan 1885	St George's, Hanover Square, London, England
  Children	1. Gladys Jameson,   b. Abt 1886, St Leonards, Sussex, England d. 1933 (Age 47 years)   2. James Algernon Durand Jameson,   b. 30 Oct 1887, London, England d. 7 Dec 1964, Chanctonbury, Sussex, England (Age 77 years)
  Family ID	F144	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos

  James Sligo Jameson (1856-1890)

  
  

  Etcetera

  The Whiskey Canibal & The Heart of Darkness In a jungle clearing in an unmapped region of the Congo River basin, an Irish gentleman discusses the rites and rituals of cannibalism with a slave trader. James ‘Sligo’ Jameson, scion of the famous whiskey-distilling family and one of the great naturalists of the late-nineteenth-century ‘age of exploration’, is far from home, fever-wracked and travelling under the dubious protection of the notorious Arab slave master Tippu Tib .......

  
  

• Notes

  A great naturalist and explorer, who discovered the river sources of the Umnati and Umfali in South Africa and he later joined the expeditions of famous explorer Mr. Stanley for the relief of the Emin Pasha. (He was a collector of insects and arachnids in Africa.) "The Collection of Butterflies, made by the late Mr. James S. Jameson during the Expedition undertaken for the relief of Emin Pasha, has been submitted to us, Godman & Salvin (1890), by Mrs. Jameson for determination. The collection contains about 218 specimens belonging to 132 species. So far as we can now determine, it was formed either in the valley of the Lower Congo between Matadi and Stanley Pool, or at the camp at Yambuya on the Aruwimi river. The very adverse conditions under which the specimens were collected and the subsequent treatment they must have undergone after Mr. Jameson's death account for the smallness of the collection, as from some of the notes in the foregoing diary it is evident that many more specimens must have been preserved than ever reached Mrs. Jameson's hands." James explored land of Matebelis; also Montana; back in Africa with Stanley, he witnessed a cannibal banquet in Upper Congo, and was accused by Stanley of instigating it (Times, 8 Nov. 1890). A diary of the Emin Pasha expedition has been published

  
  

• Sources

  [S22] Birth Record. SR Births # 465/00 0207 National Records of Scotland [S25] Wills & Probate, 1889, p.329. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966 [S25] Wills & Probate, 7 Feb 1890, p.367. Calendars of Wills and Administratore, 1858-1922 - The National Archives of Ireland [S23] Marriage Record. "Ireland Marriages, 1619-1898," index FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FGXW-N67), Andrew Jameson and Margaret Cochrane, 04 Mar 1852; citing Calry, Sligo, Ire, reference 2:3PT79FB; FHL microfilm 101,341