John Oldham

'Planting attorney' and a slave-owner in his own right in Jamaica. During Apprenticeship he appears to have acquired Caen Wood in St George and Friendship in St Mary. He had several children in Jamaica who appear to have been his natural children.

1. Will of John Oldham of St Mary Middlesex [Jamaica] [made in 1839] proved 24/11/1840. He excluded from the settlement of his debts his two sugar estates, Caen Wood in St George and Friendship in St Mary. He left: his son Robert Oldham his watch; Eleanor Dunbar 'Gentlewoman' then living with him £1000 currency; her daughter Perena [sp?] who then resided in Portland aged 19 £106 13s 4d currency of twenty doubloons; his brothers and sister William and George Oldham and Hannah Louise Tucker £100 sterling each; trustees £1000 to be invested in consols and to accumulate until his daughter Matilda, 'who now resides at Agualta Vale Pen' and was then aged four, reached 18 (if she died before then the legacy was to go to Eleanor Dunbar, Robert Oldham and John Oldham's daughter Ellen Louisa Henley who resided in St Mary's aged 18, the wife of Captain Thomas Henley of the merchant service. He felt annuities of £100 p.a. to Eleanor Dunbar and Matilda Oldham, secured on Caen Wood and Friendship respectively. He left Caen Wood to his son Robert (the produce to accumulate until Robert was 21) and Friendship to his daughter Ellen Louisa Henley.

1. PROB 11/1936/277