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Kingston Workhouse

Jamaica | Kingston

Estate Details

Associated People (6)

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
1817 [EA] - → Other
Robert McClelland

One of the commissioners of the workhouse

1820 [EA] - → Other
Joseph Barnes

One of the commissioners of the workhouse

1823 [EA] - → Other
Alexander Evans

One of the commissioners of the workhouse

1826 [EA] - → Other
John Biggar

One of the commissioners of the workhouse

1829 [EA] - → Other
George Burrell Smith

One of the commissioners of the workhouse

1832 [EA] - → Other
Barnaby Maddan

One of the commissioners of the workhouse

Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 18(Tot) 6(F) 12(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Robert McClelland as one of the commissioners of the Kingston Workhouse. 3 men sent in by their owners, the remainder condemned and sent there by the slave courts

 
T71/77 369
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 20(Tot) 9(F) 11(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Joseph Barnes one of the commissioners of the Kingston Workhouse. Increase 3 males and 3 females condemned to the workhouse for life by different slave councils.

 
T71/81 215
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 15(Tot) 8(F) 7(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Alexander Evans as one of the Commissioners of the Kingston Workhouse. 2 males 1 female transported off the island under Clause 99 Slave Law.

 
T71/91 59
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 12(Tot) 6(F) 6(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Biggar one of the Commissioners of Kingston Workhouse. Increase 2 males sentenced by Kingston Slave Court. 1 male 1 female marked runaway.

 
T71/97 138
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 28(Tot) 7(F) 21(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of George Burrell Smith one of the Commissioners of the Kingston Workhouse. Increase 1 male sentenced at the Kingston Court of quarter sessions, 14 males 1 female sentenced for life at the Kingston Slave Court,

 
T71/110 124
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 26(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Barnaby Madden as one of the commissioners of Kingston workhouse.

 
T71/116 80