Wood Hall

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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
- 1806 [EY] → Owner
1806 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Joint owner
1806 [EA] - → Joint owner
1806 [EA] - → Joint owner
1809 [EA] - 1815 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Joint owner

Associated Claims (1)

£3,272 14S 7D

Notes

Owner of Woodhall estate in St Dorothy, Jamaica. Died in 1832. Will of Alexander Bayley of St Dorothy County of Middlesex Island of Jamaica proved 11/1/2/1832.


Sources

PROB 11/1808/367.


Estate Information (25)

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1740
[Name] Woodhall  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Fulton and Pestoll deceased. One half of plantation belonging to Hanbury Sauders Pestoll a minor under the guardianship of Edmund Hyde of the parish of St. Andrew Esq. Account filed by Edmund Pusey of St. Dorothy gent late manager of the estate and employed as such by the heirs of Thomas Fulton and Edmund Hyde Esq. guardian to Hanbury Sauders Pestoll a minor.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives, IB/11/4/1 92
1741
[Name] Woodhall  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging one half to Hanbury Saunders Pestell a minor under the guardianship of Edmund Hyde of the parish of St. Andrew. Account filed by John Nimmo of St. Dorothy overseer and manager of the estate formerly belonging to Messers Fulton and Pestell deceased and employed by the heirs of the late Reverend Thomas Fulton and Edmund Hyde Esqs. as guardian to Hanbury Saunders Pestell a minor.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives, IB/11/4/1 137
1798
[Name] Wood-Hall  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Dorothy as a sugar estate with a cattlemill 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.
1807
[Name] Woodhall  
[Crop] sugar, coffee and rum  
 

Belonging to Mrs. Anne Elizabeth Bayley. Account filed by George G. Macpherson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 66
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 185(Tot)  
[Name] Woodhall  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to Alexander Bayley.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Cath.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 180(Tot)  
[Name] Woodhall  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to Alexander Bayley.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812cat.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 175(Tot)  
[Name] Woodhall  
[Crop] Listed as an estate so likely sugar.  
[Stock] 120  
 

Registered to Alexander Bayley.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15doro.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 166(Tot)  
[Name] Woodhall  
[Crop] Listed as both an estate and a pen, so likely growing sugar as well as livestock or provisions.  
[Stock] 137  
 

Registered to Alexander Bayley.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 168(Tot) 78(F) 90(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Alexander Bayley as owner in right of himself and his wife Sarah Ann.

 
T71/13 111-114
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 168(Tot)  
[Name] Woodhall  
[Crop] Listed as both an estate and a pen, so likely growing sugar as well as livestock or provisions.  
[Stock] 22  
 

Registered to Alexander Bayley.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 177(Tot)  
[Name] Woodhall Estate  
 

In the possession of Alexander Bayley as owner in his own right and in right of his wife.

 
T71/14 39-40
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 174(Tot)  
[Name] Woodhall  
[Crop] Listed as an estate so likely sugar.  
[Stock] 29  
 

Registered to Alexander Bayley.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 181(Tot)  
[Name] Wood Hall  
[Crop] Listed as an estate so likely sugar.  
[Stock] 142  
 

Registered to Alexander Bayley.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24doro.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 177(Tot) 83(F) 94(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Thomas Smith as Attorney to Alexander Bayley Esq.

 
T71/15 5
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 185(Tot)  
[Name] Wood Hall  
[Crop] Listed as an estate so likely sugar.  
[Stock] 144  
 

Registered to Alexander Bayley.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 181(Tot)  
[Name] Wood Hall  
[Crop] Listed as an estate so likely sugar.  
[Stock] 156  
 

Registered to Alexander Bayley.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 180(Tot)  
[Name] Woodhall Estate  
 

In the possession of Alexander Bayley Esq as owner in his and his wife's right.

 
T71/16 89
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 238(Tot)  
[Name] Wood Hall  
[Crop] Listed as an estate so likely sugar.  
[Stock] 20  
 

Registered to Alexander Bayley.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 182(Tot)  
[Name] Wood Hall  
[Crop] Listed as an estate so likely sugar.  
[Stock] 21  
 

Registered to Alexander Bayley.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29stivdor.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 175(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Alexander Bayley as owner in his and his wife's right.

 
T71/17 17
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 174(Tot)  
[Name] Wood Hall  
[Crop] Listed as an estate so likely sugar.  
[Stock] 27  
 

Registered to Alexander Bayley.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831stiv.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 167(Tot)  
[Name] Wood Hall  
[Stock] 34  
 

Registered to Alexander Bayley.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32doro.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 167(Tot)  
[Name] Woodhall  
[Stock] 105  
 

Registered to Alexander Bayley.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Doro.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 168(Tot) 86(F) 82(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Alexander Bayley as owner in his and his wife's right.

 
T71/18 254
1839
[Name] Woodhall  
[Size] 1406  
 

Registered to the estate of Alex. Bayley.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Dorothy.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.