Gavin Waugh

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Biography

  1. In 1780, Gavin Waugh was living at Above Rocks, St. Thomas in the Vale.

  2. In 1813, Gavin Waugh was a planter in St. Thomas in the Vale.

  3. On 28 June 1817, he registered as the ‘owner’ of 24 male and 33 female enslaved people, totalling 57.

  4. He died in 1818 at Golden River, in St. Thomas in the Vale “Gavin Waugh, Esq., an old inhabitant.” This Gavin Waugh is later identified as a planter: “ALL Persons having just DEMANDS against the ESTATE of GAVIN WAUGH, late of this parish of St. Thomas in the Vale, Planter.”

  5. A Gavin Waugh, “overseer of Tremolesworth estate” died in 1827; this is presumably the son of the above Gavin Waugh.

We are grateful to Steven Carter for his assistance in compiling this entry.


Sources

  1. Royal Gazette of Jamaica, Saturday 30 December 1780, p. 14.

  2. Royal Gazette of Jamaica, Saturday 05 June 1813, p. 11.

  3. T71/25, pp. 54-56.

  4. Royal Gazette of Jamaica, Saturday 07 March 1818, p. 19 and Saturday 06 June 1818, p. 27.

  5. Royal Gazette of Jamaica, Saturday 20 October 1827, p. 19.


Associated Estates (2)

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
1799 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Owner
- 1827 [EY] → Overseer

Gavin Waugh, overseer of Tremolesworth estate, died 1827.