William Pusey Hayle

Owner of Fearon's Place in Clarendon, Jamaica, which he may have inherited through his wife Frances Bryan nee Fearon.

1. William Pusey Hayle and his wife Frances had four children baptised in Clarendon: Jane 09/08/1804, Thomas 31/12/1808, Edward 28/03/1811 and Mary Angelina 23/01/1813. Another child, Eliza, daughter of Wm Pusey Hayle and --- Hayle was baptised in Clarendon 01/09/1802. Anna Hayle is assumed to be a child of this marriage as well as she inherited a share of the property of William Pusey Hayle (along with Thomas, Edward and Mary Angelina). It's not clear whether this was the same William Pusey Hayle who was the father of two children baptised in Clarendon 19/12/1794: William Hayle and John Rodon Hayle. William Pusey Hayle was listed against Fearon's Place in the Jamaica Almanacs from 1809 to 1820. From 1823 Fearon's Place was listed against William P. Hayle, deceased. His executors were Francis Smith and Samuel Smith; he bequeathed 16 enslaved people each to Anna, Thomas, Edward and Mary Angelina. His son Thomas acted as administrator of his estate in 1832.

2. M.D. Leyden, Jan. 30, 1786, "de cantharidum natura et usu." Thesis at B.M. On title-page he is described as from Jamaica. Dedicated to Richard Batty, Judge of St Iago de la Vega, Jamaica; Francis Rigby Brodbelt, M.D. (St Andrews, 1766). This thesis was republished in 1793 as No. 2 of Schlegel's Thesaurus Materiae Medicae (Leipzig). He was an Edinburgh student and Member of R.M.S., 1783.

3. Hayle's family resettled in England, at Newcastle and then Rochdale: at the latter, his son Thomas Hayle and his grandson Thomas Hahnemann Hayle practised as homeopathic physicians, in Thomas Hahnemann's case reportedly as the doctor of John Bright.

4. The William Pusey Hayle whose death was registered at Rochdale Q3 1865 was presumably a descendant, probably also a grandson.

1. Familysearch.org, Jamaica Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880 [database online]. Jamaica Almanacs (1811, 1821, 1824, 1830, 1833). Details of his executors and bequests from the Slave Register of 1823, T71/59 pp. 275-281.

2. R.W. Innes Smith, English-speaking students of medicine at the University of Leyden (Edinburgh/London : Oliver and Boyd, 1932), p. 111.

3. Thomas Lindsley Bradford, Biographies of Homeopathic Physicians (Philadelphia: 1916).

4. Ancestry.com, William Pusey Hayle in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1837-1915 [database online]

We are grateful to Stanley Robert Criens for his help with this entry.