Windsor Castle

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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
- 1803 [EY] → Owner
1803 [EA] - 1803 [LA] → Heir
1809 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Previous owner

Given only as Buckmaster, this might equally refer to Samuel Buckmaster (d. 1800) or to his nephew and heir John Buckmaster senior (who d. c. 1803).

1815 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Owner
1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1820 [EA] - → Other
1820 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Other

The attorney of Joseph Savage, who was in turn the trustee of John Wordsworth, sold enslaved people to this estate c. 1820.

1821 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Previous owner
1826 [EA] - → Attorney
1826 [EA] - → Receiver
1829 [EA] - → Not known
1829 [EA] - → Not known
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Not known
1834 [EA] - → Owner

Associated Claims (1)

£3,301 14S 0D

Estate Information (26)

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1786
[Name] Windsor Castle Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Under the direction of Robert Hibbert and John Gutch, attorneys; account filed by David Davis, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 113
1798
[Name] Windsor Castle  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St George 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 Surrey which he compeleted in 1798.
1803
[Name] Windsor Castle Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Under the care and direction of John Marsh Sansum, David Sheriff and John Elmslie Esq.s, attornies. Account filed by said John Marsh Sansum as overseer for the period 01/01/1803 to 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 191-192
1807
[Name] Windsor Castle  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account presented by Lauchn McNicholl as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 216
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 203(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Castle  
[Stock] 23  
 

Registered to --- Buckmaster deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11George.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 191(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Castle  
[Stock] 29  
 

Registered to ___ Buckmaster deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812and.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 154(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor-Castle  
[Stock] 106  
 

Registered to John Buckmaster.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15geor.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 176(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Castle  
[Stock] 96  
 

Registered to John Buckmaster.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 175(Tot) 89(F) 86(M)  
[Name] Windsor Castle  
 

In the possession of Philip Jaquet as Attorney to John Buckmaster Esquire.

 
T71/158 430
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 189(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Castle  
[Stock] 99  
 

Registered to John Buckmaster.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 185(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Castle  
[Stock] 30  
 

Registered to John Buckmaster.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 184(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Castle  
 

In the possession of Philip Jaquet as Attorney to John Buckmaster Esquire owner of Windsor Castle. Increase of 17 enslaved people bought from Benjamin Crossley attorney to Joseph Savage Trustee of John Wordsworth and last returned by John Phillips in St George as attorney to Joseph Savage.

 
T71/159 266
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 176(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Castle  
[Stock] 86  
 

Registered to John Buckmaster deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 179(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Castle  
[Stock] 77  
 

Registered to John Buckmaster deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24geor.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 178(Tot) 88(F) 90(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Philip Jaquet as Attorney to the Heirs of John Buckmaster.

 
T71/160 157
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 177(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Castle  
[Stock] 79  
 

Registered to John Buckmaster deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 178(Tot) 87(F) 90(M)  
[Name] Windsor Castle Estate  
 

In the possession of William Lambie as Attorney of Thomas Edgar the Receiver appointed by the High Court of Chancery of Great Britain.

 
T71/161 114
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 176(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Castle  
[Stock] 40  
 

Registered to John Buckmaster deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al08.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] Windsor Castle  
[Stock] 28  
 

Registered to John Buckmaster deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al14.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 169(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Castle  
[Stock] 27  
 

Registered to John Buckmaster deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29portgeorg.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 167(Tot) 84(F) 83(M)  
[Name] Windsor Castle  
 

In the possession of William Lambie & James M. Whyte Esquire as [left blank].

 
T71/162 259
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 159(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Castle  
[Stock] 27  
 

Registered to John Buckmaster deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831geor.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 189(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Castle  
[Stock] 31  
 

Registered to John Buckmaster deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32geor.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 183(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Castle  
[Stock] 34  
 

Registered to John Buckmaster deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33George.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 182(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Castle  
 

In the possession of John Oldham as Attorney to Sarah Buckmaster.

 
T71/163 465
1839
[Name] Windsor Castle  
[Size] 928  
 

Registered to John Oldham dec.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40George.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.