UCL

Charles Smith

Profile & Legacies Summary

No Dates

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Overseer then slave-owner in Jamaica, marrying into the Horlock family.

  1. Benjamin McMahon worked for eighteen months as head book-keeper under Charles Smith in the early- to mid-1820s. Smith was married to 'Miss Hurlock'. Smith was accused by book-keeper Donald Ross of having deceived, stalked, severely beat and raped a young girl aged approximately 11 or 12 at Richmond estate.

Sources

  1. Benjamin McMahon, Jamaica Plantership: Eighteen Years Employed in the Planting Line in that Island (1839) pp. 69-70.

We are grateful to Siddharth Singh Ahlawat for his assistance with compiling this entry.

Further Information

Spouse
Miss Hurlock

Associated Claims (2)

Jamaica St Ann 431 (Deveronside (sp?))
£1,933 1s 6d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
Details
Jamaica St Mary 374 (Russell Hall Estate)
£4,246 17s 8d
Awardee (Executor or executrix)
Details
Inferred to have been executor by LBS. Charles Smith had married a 'Miss Hurlock'

Associated Estates (17)

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
1832 [EA] - 1837 [LA] → Owner
Arboll [3] [ Jamaica | St Ann ]
1820 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
Arboll [3] [ Jamaica | St Ann ]
1820 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
Blenheim [ Jamaica | St Ann ]
1823 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
Cherry Garden [ Jamaica | St Dorothy ]
1820 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Receiver
Cranbrook [ Jamaica | St Ann ]
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
Cranbrook [ Jamaica | St Ann ]
1823 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Deveronside [ Jamaica | St Ann ]
1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
Edinburgh Castle [ Jamaica | St Ann ]
1820 [EA] - → Attorney
Laughlands [ Jamaica | St Ann ]
1829 [EA] - → Attorney
Liberty Hill [ Jamaica | St Ann ]
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
Lillyfield [ Jamaica | St Ann ]
1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
Richmond Estate (Old and New Works) [ Jamaica | St Ann ]
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
Somerset Park [ Jamaica | St Andrew ]
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
Southfields [ Jamaica | St Ann ]
1820 [EA] - → Executor
Springfield [ Jamaica | St Ann ]
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
Unknown [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-Vale ]
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
urban (Kingston) [ Jamaica | Kingston ]

Relationships (2)

Charles Smith
Son-in-law → Father-in-law
Thomas Williams Horlock
Details
Charles Smith
Son-in-law → Mother-in-law
Ann Horlock
Details