John Baillie of Lovel Hill and Roehampton estate

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1832

Slave-owner and antecedent of claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Son of John Baillie of Stenton, East Lothian and owner of Roehampton and Minard estates Jamaica.

Married (1) Jessey Noble Steel (daughter of Ann Jarrett) and Dr Thomas Steel in 1804 (she died 1807) (2) Elizabeth Jarrett Kerr, daughter of David Kerr and Sarah Newton Jarrett. Died 24/06/1832.
John Baillie Esq. of Roehampton Estate, parish of St James's, and formerly of Lovell-hill, Winkfield, Berkshire, died on his passage to Jamaica in 1832. Will of John Baillie of St James Jamaica [but at present staying at St James' Street Middlesex] proved 30/07/1832. His executors included James Hodge Byles (q.v.) and William Mitchell Kerr (q.v.), his brother-in-law by Baillie's second marriage. He left his estates including Roehampton in to raise £3000 each for his daughters Jessey and Elizabeth, and £1000 each for his five sons, the latter also his residuary legatees unless they all died, whereupon his daughters would inherit. In a codicil he said he was heavily indebted on to Charles Stirling and Wm. Leckie Ewing as partners in Stirling Gordon, and he added them as executors.

Sources

Family details are from www.orange-tree-valley.co.uk [accessed 30/06/2011].
Morning Post 28/07/1832. PROB 11/1802/211.

We are grateful to William Norton for his assistance with compiling this entry.

Further Information

Absentee?

Transatlantic

Spouse

(1) Jessey Noble Steel (2) Elizabeth Jarrett Kerr

Children

With (2), John (1810-80); Grant (1812-54); Jessie (1813-34); Rosa (1815-1903); Elizabeth (1817-88); Dr Herbert (1819-90); William (1819-45); Louisa (1821-59); Gordon (1827-1875)

Associated Claims (1)

Associated Estates (4)

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

1818 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Trustee and Executor

Blackness Estate [ Jamaica | Westmoreland ]

Although shown in the compensation claim, John Baillie had died in 1832. He was appointed trustee and executor under the second codicil of Francis Grant's will, dated 1818, which gave him as of Lovell Hill Berkshire.

1815 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Owner

Minard [ Jamaica | St Ann ]

1811 [EA] - 1832 [EY] → Owner

Roehampton Estate [ Jamaica | St James ]

1809 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Joint owner

Steelfield [ Jamaica | Trelawny ]