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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:
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- 1808 [EY] → Joint owner
Bequeathed to Henry Shirley III in the will of Bernard Shirley (q.v.) proved in 1812, several years after his death in April 1808. |
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1808 [SY] - → Joint owner
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1815 [EA] - → Previous owner
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1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
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1817 [EA] - → Not known
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1817 [EA] - → Not known
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1817 [EA] - → Not known
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1817 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
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Estate Information (22) |
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1809
[Number of enslaved people] 89(Tot)
[Name] Mount St. Bernard [Stock] 13 Registered to Bernard Shirley.
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.
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1811
[Number of enslaved people] 116(Tot)
[Name] Mount St. Bernard [Stock] 9 Registered to Bernard Shirley.
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.
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1811
[Name] Mount St Bernard
[Crop] Coffee Under the will of Bernard Shirley [late of the parish of St George in the Island of Jamaica but now ] of Fingest Buckinghamshire, he excluded from his instruction to pay off his just debts the debt owed by him to his brother Henry Shirley and secured by mortgage on his coffee estate called Mount St Bernard: this mortgage was to be serviced according to the deeds establishing it on the second day of January last.
PROB 11/1529/177
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1815
[Number of enslaved people] 78(Tot)
[Name] Mount St. Bernard [Stock] 4 Registered to George H. Cosens.
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.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 85(Tot)
[Name] Mount St. Bernard [Stock] 3 Registered to George H. Cosens deceased.
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.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 30(Tot) 14(F) 16(M)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of Thomas Murray as Owner.
T71/158 175
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 85(Tot) 44(F) 41(M)
[Name] Mount Saint Bernard Plantation In the possession of John Steel as Attorney for Messieurs G. & A. Young Sims & Young of London now upon Mount Saint Bernard Plantation.
T71/158 335
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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 32(Tot)
[Name] Mount St. Bernard Registered to Thomas Murray.
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.
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 48(Tot)
[Name] Mount St. Bernard [Stock] 12 Registered to Thomas Murray.
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.
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 36(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of Thomas Murray as Owner.
T71/159 184
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1820
[Name] Mount St Bernard
In the possession of John Steel as Attorney for Messieurs George & Adam Young Sims & Young of London upon Mount St. Bernard Plantation. Decrease of 85 enslaved people moved to Cambridge Estate in Portland belonging to the same owners . . . births and deaths given in the Portland return.
T71/159 242
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1821
[Number of enslaved people] 59(Tot)
[Name] Mount St. Bernard [Stock] 23 Registered to Thomas Murray.
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.
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 43(Tot)
[Name] Mount St. Bernard [Stock] 31 Registered to Thomas Murray.
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.
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 38(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of Thomas Murray as Owner.
T71/160 183
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1825
[Number of enslaved people] 41(Tot)
[Name] Mount St. Bernard [Stock] 3 Registered to Thomas Murray.
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.
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 246(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of Thomas Murray as Owner. Increase of 219 enslaved people by purchase: 18 enslaved people purchased from William Brooker King Esquire the Executor of James Bryan King Deceased. 1 enslaved person purchased from the Honourable James Calyton White. 200 enslaved people purchased from the Honourable William Anderson Orgill. Decrease of 16 enslaved people by sale - no buyers given. Assumed to be Paradise and Mount St Bernard.
T71/161 360
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1828
[Number of enslaved people] 25(Tot)
[Name] Mount St. Bernard [Stock] 6 Registered to Robert Murray.
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.
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1829
[Number of enslaved people] 31(Tot) 16(F) 15(M)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of Thomas Murray as Owner. Decrease of 200 enslaved people by sale (no buyer given). Assumed to be Paradise and Mount St Bernard.
T71/162 345
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1830
[Number of enslaved people] 26(Tot)
[Name] Mount St. Bernard [Stock] 3 Registered to Robert Murray.
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.
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1831
[Number of enslaved people] 26(Tot)
[Name] Mount St. Bernard [Stock] 3 Registered to Robert Murray.
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.
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 34(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of Thomas Murray as Owner. Date given is 1831- but all enslaved people seem to have been sold with 1 death and 2 births- yet no buyers given just 'sale' written in the decrease column and new total is given as 34.
T71/163 281
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1839
[Name] Mount St. Bernard
[Size] 332 Registered to Thomas Murray.
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.
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???? - 29th Aug 1873
Free person of colour, slave-owner in Jamaica. Long-term partner and later wife of Thomas Legal Yates. Living in Britain from the mid-1830s until her death in 1873.
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Mount St Bernard [ Jamaica | St George ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/8152 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
