Adam William Thorburn

Profile & Legacies Summary

1795 - ????

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Planter of Top Hill, Clarendon, Jamaica. Listed in the 1817 Slave Register for Clarendon as owning 51 slaves. Married Olive nee Burrell, with whom he had at least 5 children: Eliza Alice, Mary King, John Burrell, Adam William and Ann Hayle. It is not clear whether it was he or his son of the same name who was appointed to the Municipal Board of St Catherine 1866 and also served as a Parochial Road Commissioner.

Sources

David Dobson, Scots in the West Indies, 1707-1857, Volume 2 (Genealogical Publishing.Com, 2009), p. 111.

Jamaica Almanacs, Jamaica Family Search: http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/Almanacs.htm

Slave Registers of former British Colonial Dependencies, 1813-1834, available through Ancestry.com; 1817, T71/57/590-591.

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

Further Information

Spouse

Olive Burrell

Children

Eliza Alice (1814-), Mary King (1815-), John Burrell (1817-), Adam William (1820-), Ann Hayle (1821-)

Associated Claims (4)

Associated Estates (3)

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