Low Ground

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Associated People (10)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1829 [SY] - 1831 [EY] → Attorney
1772 [EA] - 1787 [LA] → Previous owner
1789 [EA] - 1791 [LA] → Not known
1795 [EA] - 1797 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Agent
1832 [EA] - → Attorney

Associated Claims (1)

£4,146 8S 8D

Estate Information (49)

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1772
[Name] Low Ground  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Account filed by Charles Pallmer as acting executor and trustee to the estate of Nicholas Bourke deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 208
1773
[Name] Low Ground  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Account filed by Charles Pallmer as acting executor and trustee to the estate of Nicholas Bourke deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 207
1774
[Name] Low Ground  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Nicholas Bourke Esq. deceased. Account filed by Charles Pallmer as executor and trustee to the estate of Nicholas Bourke deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 269
1775
[Name] Low Ground  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Account filed by Edward Fearon Bourke executor and trustee to the estate of Nicholas Bourke deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 111
1776
[Name] Low Ground  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Account filed by Edward Fearon Bourke executor and trustee to the estate of Nicholas Bourke deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 104
1777
[Name] Low Ground  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Edward Fearon Bourke executor and trustee to the estate of Nicholas Bourke deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 159
1778
[Name] Low Ground  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Edward Fearon Bourke executor and trustee to the estate of Nicholas Bourke deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 159
1779
[Name] Low Ground  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Edward Fearon Bourke executor and trustee to the estate of Nicholas Bourke deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 160
1780
[Name] Low Ground  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Edward Fearon Bourke executor and trustee to the estate of Nicholas Bourke deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 161
1781
[Name] Low Ground  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Edward Fearon Bourke executor and trustee to the estate of Nicholas Bourke deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 161
1782
[Name] Low Ground  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Edward Fearon Bourke executor and trustee to the estate of Nicholas Bourke deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 162
1783
[Name] Low Ground  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Edmund Fearon Bourke executor & trustee for Nicholas Bourke Esquire deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 11
1784
[Name] Low Ground Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Nicholas Bourke Esquire deceased. Account filed by Patrick Cowry, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 12
1785
[Name] Low Ground Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Patrick Conry, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 50
1787
[Name] Low Ground Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Nicholas Bourke Esq deceased; account filed by Joseph Carruthers, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 106
1787
[Name] Low Ground Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Thomas Johns.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 184
1788
[Name] Low Ground Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Thomas Johns clerk.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 113-14 [f.57]
1789
[Name] Low Ground Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Theodore Foulks Esquire.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 302
1790
[Name] Low Ground Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Isaac Parkins clerk to Theodore Foulke Esquire.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 299-300
1791
[Name] Lowground Estate  
[Crop] [Not stated]  
 

Account filed by Theodore Foulks.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 205 [f.97]
1795
[Name] Low Ground  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Hon John [= James?] Wildman Esq. Account filed by Stuart Johnson as overseer for the period 01/01/1795 to 31/12/1795.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 235-236
1796
[Name] Low Ground Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, old steer  
 

Belonging to the Hon James Wildman Esq. Account filed by John White, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Low Ground Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, old steers  
 

Belonging to the Hon James Wildman, Esq. Account filed by John White, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 217
1798
[Name] Low Ground  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Clarendon as a sugar estate with a watermill in James Robertson's 1804 map of Jamaica.

 
To the King's most excellent Majesty, this map of the island of Jamaica, constructed from actual surveys. . . (London, J. Robertson, 1804), based on Robertson's survey of the county of Middlesex which he compeleted in 1798.
1799
[Name] Low Ground Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Andrew Templeton for the period 31/12/1798 to 31/12/1799.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 105-106
1800
[Name] Low Ground Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Andrew Templeton for the period 31/12/1799 to 31/12/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 124-125
1801
[Name] Low Ground Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses, cotton, ginger, coffee, cocoa, piemento  
 

Under the care and direction of Andrew Templeton or which he is possession of. Accounts filed for 1800-1801.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 102
1803
[Name] Low Ground Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Thomas Cussons, Esq, decease. Account given in the name of Joseph John Fryer, under whose direction the estate is. Account filed in the name of Gilbert McMeakin? (status not given).

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 60
1807
[Name] Low Ground  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by John Rider Brice as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 233
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 215(Tot) 116(F) 99(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Thomas Addison and John Holmes as attorneys to James Beckford Wildman Esquire the owner.

 
T71/57 795-803
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 212(Tot)  
[Name] Low Ground  
[Stock] 142  
 

Registered to James Wildman, attorney.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 209(Tot)  
[Name] Low Ground  
[Stock] 61  
 

Registered to James Wildman deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 195(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Thomas Addison and John Holmes as attornies to James B. Wildman Esquire.

 
T71/58 121-122
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 195(Tot)  
[Name] Low Ground  
[Stock] 47  
 

Registered to James Wildman deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 195(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Thomas Addison and John Holmes as attornies to James B. Wildman Esquire.

 
T71/58 121-122
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 190(Tot)  
[Name] Low Ground  
[Stock] 177  
 

Registered to James Wildman deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 187(Tot)  
[Name] Low Ground  
[Stock] 158  
 

Registered to James Wildman deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24clar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 188(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Thomas Addison and John Holmes as attorneys to James Beckford Wildman.

 
T71/59 598
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 183(Tot)  
[Name] Low Ground  
[Stock] 129  
 

Registered to James Wildman deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 171(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Randal Phillips Esquire as attorney for James Beckford Wildman Esquire.

 
T71/60 491
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 179(Tot)  
[Name] Low Ground  
[Stock] 41  
 

Registered to James Wildman deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 172(Tot)  
[Name] Low Ground  
[Stock] 47  
 

Registered to James Wildman deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 172(Tot)  
[Name] Low Ground  
[Stock] 36  
 

Registered to James Wildman.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29clarvere.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 218(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Taylor Esquire as attorney to James Beckford Wildman Esquire. Some transferred from St Andrew's. [For conditions on the estate between 1829 and 1831 see also Taylor's evidence to the Select Committee on the Extinction of Slavery, Parliamentary Papers 1831-32 (721), pp. 7-64.]

 
T71/63 465
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 250(Tot)  
[Name] Low Ground  
[Stock] 57  
 

Registered to James B. Wildman.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831clar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 218(Tot)  
[Name] Low Ground  
[Stock] 60  
 

Registered to James B. Wildman.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32vere.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 248(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Edward Jones as agent to Matthew Farquharson Esquire attorney to James Beckford Wildman Esquire. Increase due to transfer from the parish of St Andrew.

 
T71/64 472
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 249(Tot)  
[Name] Low Ground  
[Stock] 48  
 

Registered to James B. Wildman.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Claren.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Low Ground  
[Size] 1372  
 

Registered to James B. Wildman.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Clarend.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.