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Fontabelle Estate

Jamaica | St Mary

Estate Details

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Associated People (7)

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
1772 [EA] - 1783 [LA] → Previous owner
Nicholas Bourke
1772 [EA] - 1774 [LA] → Executor
Charles Pallmer

Acting executor for Nicholas Bourke (his father-in-law).

1775 [EA] - 1783 [LA] → Executor
Edmund Fearon Bourke senior

Executor and Trustee of Nicholas Bourke

1800 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Owner
Thomas Bourke

The estate was in receivership by 1807

1807 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Receiver
Robert William Harris
1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Receiver
Hon. John Mais
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Receiver
Hon. Henry Cox

Associated Claims (1)

Jamaica St Mary 288 (Fontabelle Estate)
£2,094 1S 2D

Notes

See also JA16255 for enslaved people rented to Fontabelle in 1820.

Estate Information (24)

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1772
[Name] Fontabelle  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Charles Pallmer as acting executor and trustee to the estate of Nicholas Bourke deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 206
1773
[Name] Fontabelle  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Account filed by Charles Pallmer as acting executor and trustee to the estate of Nicholas Bourke deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 207
1774
[Name] Fontabelle  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Charles Pallmer executor and trustee to the late Nicholas Bourke deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 229
1775
[Name] Fontabelle  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Account filed by Edward Fearon Bourke executor and trustee to the estate of Nicholas Bourke deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 111
1776
[Name] Fontabelle  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Account filed by Edward Fearon Bourke executor and trustee to the estate of Nicholas Bourke deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 104
1777
[Name] Fontabelle  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Edward Fearon Bourke executor and trustee to the estate of Nicholas Bourke deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 159
1778
[Name] Fontabelle  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Edward Fearon Bourke executor and trustee to the estate of Nicholas Bourke deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 160
1779
[Name] Fontabelle  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Edward Fearon Bourke executor and trustee to the estate of Nicholas Bourke deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 160
1780
[Name] Fontabelle  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Edward Fearon Bourke executor and trustee to the estate of Nicholas Bourke deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 161
1781
[Name] Fontabelle  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Edward Fearon Bourke executor and trustee to the estate of Nicholas Bourke deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 162
1782
[Name] Fontabelle  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Edward Fearon Bourke executor and trustee to the estate of Nicholas Bourke deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 162
1783
[Name] Fontabelle  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Edmund Fearon Bourke Executor & trustee for Nicholas Bourke Esquire deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 11-12
1798
[Name] Fontabell Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

Account filed by Jn Wm Whitman for the period 31/12/1797 to 31/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 171
1798
[Name] Fontabelle  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Mary as a sugar estate with a cattle mill and 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 Middlesex which he compeleted in 1798.
1799
[Name] Fontabell Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Wm Whitman for the period 31/12/1798 to 31/12/1799.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 195-196
1800
[Name] Fontabell Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Thomas Bourke Esq. Account filed by Martin Fogarty for the period 31/12/1799 to 31/12/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 50
1803
[Name] Fontabelle Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, rents  
 

Account filed by Martin Fogarty as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 138
1807
[Name] Fontabella  
[Crop] sugar, rum, land and wharf rental  
 

In possession of Robert William Harris Esq. as receiver. Account filed by Thomas Hussey, clerk to Robert William Harris Esq. attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 28-29
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 169(Tot) 94(F) 75(M)  
[Name] Fontabelle Estate  
 

Robert William Harris, receiver.

 
T 71/33 985-990
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 158(Tot) 89(F) 69(M)  
[Name] Fontabelle Estate  
 

Robert William Harris, receiver for the Fontabelle Estate, the property of Thomas Bourke.

 
T 71/34 130v-131
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 149(Tot) 84(F) 65(M)  
[Name] Fontabelle Estate  
 

Robert William Harris and John Mais, receivers, for the Fontabelle Estate.

 
T 71/35 212-213
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 141(Tot) 74(F) 67(M)  
[Name] Fontabelle Estate  
 

Robert William Harris and the Honble. John Mais, receivers, for the Fontabelle Estate.

 
T 71/36 464-466
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 129(Tot) 71(F) 58(M)  
[Name] Fontabelle Estate  
 

The Honble. Henry Cox, receiver, for the Fontabelle Estate.

 
T 71/37 [unpaginated]
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 119(Tot) 65(F) 54(M)  
[Name] Fontabelle Estate  
 

Henry Cox, receiver, for the Fontabelle Estate.

 
T 71/41 105