UCL

Wookey Hill

Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-Vale

Estate Details

Associated People (1)

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
1817 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
Rev. William Godfrey Pollard Burton

Associated Claims (2)

Jamaica St Thomas-in-the-Vale 308 (Wakey Hill)
£699 10S 6D
Jamaica St Thomas-in-the-Vale 309
£29 3S 1D

Notes

Inferred to be the estate or place variously named as Wookley (1840 Jamaica Almanac), Wookey (1851 England & Wales census) and Wakey Hill (compensation records).

Sources

"Jamaica, Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6NF4-D8BW : 1 September 2022), William Godfry Polard Burton, 1847.

Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 37(Tot) 15(F) 22(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Godfrey Pollard Burton as owner.

 
T71/25 145-146
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 38(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Godfrey P Burton as owner .

 
T71/26 36
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 43(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Godfrey Pollard as owner.

 
T71/27 25
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 41(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Godfrey Pollard Burton as owner.

 
T71/28 127
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 39(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Godfrey Pollard Burton as owner.

 
T71/29-31 [unpaginated]
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 32(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Godfry Pollard Burton as owner. In April 1839, the sale of the estate was advertised in Kingston newspaper the Morning Journal as follows: "WOOKEY HILL Plantation, consisting of 22 Acres of Land in Pasturage, Coffee, and Woodland. On the Property is a very excellent Dwelling House, fit for the accommodation of a large family, with other buildings." Morning Journal (Kingston), Saturday 6th April 1839, p. 4.

 
T71/32 30