Castle Wemyss

[Name] Castle Wemyss  
[Crop] sugar and rum  

Belonging to John Wemyss deceased. Acocunt filed by James Sharp as overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 70

[Name] Castle Wemyss  
[Crop] sugar and rum  

Belonging to John Wemyss Esq. deceased. Acocunt filed by James Sharp as overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 137

[Name] Castle Wemyss  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  

Belonging to John Wemyss Esq. deceased. Acocunt filed by James Sharp as overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 196

[Name] Castle Wemyss  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  

Belonging to John Wemyss Esq. deceased. Account filed by James Sharp as overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 33

[Name] Castle Wemyss  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  

The property of Gilbert Mathison Esq. deceased as it came into the knowledge or possession of Charles Mitchell as his acting executor.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 212

[Number of enslaved people] 174(Tot)  
[Name] Castle Weemys /Wymmes  
[Crop] Sugar  
[Stock] 144  

Listed as belonging to Gilbert Matheson with 5 men bearing arms and 1 women or children; the same source gives the estate producing 101 hogsheads of sugar.

Edward Long, 'A List of Sugar Estates and other Properties in the Parish of Saint James as they were in the Month of September 1774 shewing the number of white People residing in said Parish particularising those able to bear Arms, the number of Slaves & Stock & the number of hogsheads of Sugar made on the several Estates in the Crop of the year 1774' transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/StJames1774.htm

[Name] Castle Wemyss  
[Crop] sugar and rum  

The property of Gilbert Mathison Esq. deceased as it came into the knowledge or possession of Charles Mitchell as his acting executor.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 31

[Name] Castle Wemyss  
[Crop] sugar and rum  

The property of Gilbert Mathison Esq. deceased as it came into the hands or knowledge of Charles Mitchell as his acting executor.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 106

[Name] Castle Wemyss  
[Crop] sugar and rum  

The property of Gilbert Mathison Esq. deceased as it came into the knowledge or possession of Charles Mitchell as his acting executor.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 75

[Name] Castle Wemyss  
[Crop] sugar and rum  

The property of Gilbert Mathison Esq. deceased as it came into the knowledge or possession of Charles Mitchell as his acting executor.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 156

[Name] Castle Wemyss  
[Crop] sugar and rum  

The property of Gilbert Mathison Esq. deceased as it came into the knowledge or possession of Charles Mitchell as his acting executor.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 211

[Name] Castle Weemyss Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  

Property of Gilbert Mathison Esquire. Account filed by Charles Mitchell only acting Executor.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 65

[Name] Castle Weemyss Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  

Estate of Gilbert Mattison (sp?) Esquire deceased. Account filed by Charles Mitchell, acting executor and Alexander Currison, overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 183

[Name] Castle Wemyss  
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle  

Account filed by William Hunter as overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 174

[Name] Castle Wemyss Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  

Account filed by Charles Mitchell, acting executor of Gilbert Mathison Esq deceased.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 74

[Name] Castle Wemyss Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  

late the property of Gilbert Mathison Esq deceased, now in the possession of Charles Mitchell his acting executor. Account filed by William Hunter, overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 177

[Name] Castle Wemyss Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  

Belonging to the estate of Gilbert Mathison; account filed by William Hunter, overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 120

[Name] Castle Weemyss  
[Crop] sugar, rum  

Belonging to the estate of Gilbert Matthison deceased and in the possession of Charles Mitchell his acting executor; account filed by William Hunter as overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 203

[Name] Castle Wemyss  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, labour  

Account filed by Charles Mitchell attorney to Gilbert Mathison Esquire.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 340

[Name] Castle Weemyss  
[Crop] sugar, rum  

Account filed by Charles Mitchell attorney of Giberte Mathison.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 197-198

[Name] Castle Weemyss  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, old copper  

Property of Gilbert Mathison Esq in the possession of Charles Mitchell as his attorney. Account filed by William Hunter as overseer for the year to 31/12/1793.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 80-81

[Name] Castle Wemyss  
[Crop] sugar, rum  

Account filed by Robert James overseer for the period 31/12/1796 to 31/12/1797.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 64-65

[Name] Castle Wemyss  
[Crop] sugar and rum  

Account filed by Archibald Sterling one of the attornies of Gilbert Mathison.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 88-89

[Name] Castle Wemys's Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  

Property of Gilbert Mathison Esq. Account filed by John Davidson as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1799.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 26

[Name] Castle-Wemyss  
[Crop] Sugar  

Plotted in St James as a sugar estate with a cattle mill 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 Cornwall which he compeleted in 1799.

[Name] Castle Wemys's Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  

Property of Gilbert Mathison Esq under the care, direction and management of Archibald Sterling one of his attornies. Account filed by John Davidson as overseer for the period 31/12/1799 to 31/12/1800.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 105-106

[Name] Castle Wemyss Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  

The property of Gilbert Mattison Esq. Under the direction and management of Robert Sterling, one of the Attornies of Gilbert Mattison. Account filed by John Davidson as overseer Accounts filed for 1800-1801.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 182-183

[Name] Wemyss  

Bequeathed by Gilbert Mathison senior to Gilbert Mathison junior by 1802.

Mathison junior inherited a debt of £16,000 and in January 1802 he 'obtained a mortgage to pay off half this sum'. The same year, his marriage settlement granted his wife Catherine an annuity of £600 per annum to be raised on the estate in the event of her husband's death. Later Mathison raised further mortgages on the estate, including to Simon Halliday.

Castle Wemyss Estate Papers, at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cats/16/4592.htm [accessed 24009/2015].

[Name] Castle Wemyss  
[Crop] sugar, rum  

Property of Gilbert Mathison Esq under the care, direction and management of Archibald Sterling one of his attornies. Account filed by John Davidson as overseer for the period 31/12/1802 to 31/12/1803.

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[Name] Castle Weemiss  
[Crop] sugar, rum, 2 side rollers and 1 main, cattle, old copper and lime  

Belonging to Gilbert Mathison Esq. Account filed by John Nielson as overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 130-131

[Number of enslaved people] 273(Tot)  
[Name] Castle Wemyss  
[Stock] 52  

Registered to Gilbert Matheson.

Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11James.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 281(Tot)  
[Name] Castle Wemyss  
[Stock] 48  

Registered to Gilbert Matheson.

Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812co2.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 249(Tot)  
[Name] Castle-Wemys  
[Stock] 204  

Registered to Gilbert Matheson.

Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 200(Tot) 96(F) 104(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  

In the possession of William James Hall as attorney to Gilbert Matheson.

T71/202 350-355

[Number of enslaved people] 218(Tot)  
[Name] Castle Wemyss  
[Stock] 210  

Registered to Gilbert Matheson.

Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 229(Tot)  
[Name] Castle Wemyss  
[Stock] 103  

Registered to Gilbert Matheson.

Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 180(Tot)  
[Name] Castle Weemys  

In the possession of William James Hall Esq as Attorney for Castle Weemyss Estate, the property of Gilbert Mathieson Esq.

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[Number of enslaved people] 219(Tot)  
[Name] Castle Wemyss  
[Stock] 219  

Registered to Gilbert Matheson.

Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 208(Tot)  
[Name] Castle Wemyss  
[Stock] 201  

Registered to Gilbert Matheson.

Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Name] Wemyss Castle  

Estate conveyed to Simon Halliday, one of the mortgagees, by Gilbert Mathison junior.

Castle Wemyss Estate Papers, at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cats/16/4592.htm [accessed 24009/2015].

[Number of enslaved people] 202(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  

In the possession of John Randal Phillips Esq as Attorney for Gilbert Mathison Esq.

T71/211 269-272

[Number of enslaved people] 205(Tot)  
[Name] Castle Wemyss  
[Stock] 206  

Registered to Gilbert Matheson.

Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 208(Tot)  
[Name] Castle Wemyss  
[Stock] 198  

Registered to Simon Holiday.

Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al19.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 187(Tot)  
[Name] Castle Weemyss Estate  

In the possession of David McNish as Attorney of Simon Halliday Esq; increase owing to purchase of 203 enslaved people from Gilbert Mathison, registered in St James in 1823 by his attorney John Randal Phillips, and 14 births; decrease in total owing to 30 deaths.

T71/214 137-146

[Number of enslaved people] 201(Tot)  
[Name] Castle Wemyss  
[Stock] 187  

Registered to Simon Halday.

Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 178(Tot)  
[Name] Castle Wemyss  
[Stock] 51  

Registered to Simon Halday.

Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al18.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Name] Castle Wemyss  

Death of Gilbert Mathison junior, start of the annuity of £600 p.a. to Catherine Mathison. In 1830, investigations showed that the first mortgage on the estate pre-dated her marriage settlement, meaning that the new owner Rev. Walter Stevenson Halliday was not obliged to pay the annuity. In fact he paid a part of it, when circumstances permitted, 'out of consideration to Mrs Mathison'.

Castle Wemyss Estate Papers, at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cats/16/4592.htm [accessed 24009/2015].

[Number of enslaved people] 177(Tot)  
[Name] Castle Wemyss  
[Stock] 56  

Registered to Simon Halday.

Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 177(Tot)  
[Name] Castle Weemyss Estate  

In the possession of William Reeves as Attorney and belonging to the Heirs of Simon Halliday decd.

T71/218 unpaginated

[Name] Castle Wemyss  

Bequeathed to Rev. Walter Stevenson Halliday by his father Simon Halliday.

Castle Wemyss Estate Papers, at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cats/16/4592.htm [accessed 24009/2015].

[Number of enslaved people] 172(Tot)  
[Name] Castle Wemyss  
[Stock] 53  

Registered to estate of Simon Halday.

Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 168(Tot)  
[Name] Castle Wemys  
[Stock] 170  

Registered to Simon Halliday.

Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 161(Tot)  
[Name] Castle Wemys  
[Stock] 163  

Registered to Simon Halliday.

Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 163(Tot)  
[Name] Castle Weemyss Estate  

In the possession of William Reynolds as Attorney to the Heirs of Simon Halliday.

T71/223 169

[Name] Castle Wemyss  
[Size] 1177  

Registered to Rev. U. S. Halliday.

Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.