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Fernbrooke

Jamaica | Westmoreland

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Associated People (2)

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
1810 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Owner
Charles O'Connor
1817 [EA] - → Owner
John Vincent Purrier senior

Estate Information (6)

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1799
[Name] Fernbrook  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Westmoreland 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.
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 130(Tot)  
[Name] Fernbrook  
[Stock] 86  
 

Registered to Charles O'Connor.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Westmd.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1810, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 143(Tot)  
[Name] Fernbrook  
[Stock] 18  
 

Registered to Charles O'Connor.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812co1.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 76(Tot)  
[Name] Fernbrooke  
[Stock] 69  
 

Registered to Hibbert, Taylors & Simpson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15west.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 75(Tot)  
[Name] Fernbrooke  
[Stock] 78  
 

Registered to John Vincent Purrier.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al14.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 76(Tot) 37(F) 39(M)  
[Name] Fernbrook Sugar Estate  
 

In the possession of George Cunningham as agent for John Vincent Purrier the owner.

 
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