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Kerr or Keir Settlement

Jamaica | Trelawny

Estate Details

Associated People (4)

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
1781 [EA] - 1783 [EY] → Owner
Archibald Stirling the elder
1825 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Marion Stirling
1825 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Rev. Angus Mackellar
1825 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Helen Mackellar (née Stirling)

Associated Claims (1)

Jamaica Trelawny 553A-E (Kerr Settlement)
£2,198 9S 0D

Estate Information (10)

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1781
[Name] Keir Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

The property of Archibald Stirling Esquire on the orders of Robert Drummond acting attorney. Account filed by George MacLachlan as overseer on both the estate and pen. Hampden and Keir Estate and Pen filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 149-150 f.75
1781
[Name] Keir Pen  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

The property of Archibald Stirling Esquire on the orders of Robert Drummond acting attorney. Account filed by George MacLachlan as overseer on both the estate and pen. Hampden and Keir Estate and Pen filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 149-150 f.75
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 100(Tot)  
[Name] Keir  
 

Registered to Archibald Stirling and heirs of R. Stirling.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al20.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 100(Tot)  
[Name] Keir Settlement  
 

John Gunn as Attorney of Archibald Stirling & Heirs of Robert Stirling deceased. 100 enslaved people "removed from Hampden Estate in the parish of St James - in which parish they were formerly returned".

 
T71/234 [unpaginated]
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 100(Tot)  
[Name] Keir  
 

Registered to Archibald Stirling and heirs of R. Stirling.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 100(Tot)  
[Name] Keir  
 

Registered to Archibald Stirling and heirs of R. Stirling.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al19.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 100(Tot)  
[Name] Keir  
 

Registered to A. Stirling and heirs of R. Sterling.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 100(Tot) 49(F) 51(M)  
[Name] Keir Settlement  
 

John Gunn as Attorney of Archibald Stirling and the Heirs of Robert Stirling.

 
T71/240 [unpaginated]
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 100(Tot)  
[Name] Keir  
 

Registered to Archibald Stirling.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 100(Tot)  
[Name] Keith  
 

Registered to Archibald Stirling.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.