UCL

Reverend Thomas Simcockes

Profile & Legacies Summary

No Dates

Biography

Rector of Port Royal, and slave-owner there. In 1814 an enslaved man 'Swift, a Wakee, to Rev. Thomas Simcockes, marked T S on the right shoulder' was advertised at the Kingston Workhouse.


Sources

Douglas B. Chambers (ed.) Runaway Slaves in Jamaica (II) Nineteenth Century p. 52, http://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00021144/00002 [accessed 06/09/2018].

Further Information

Occupation
Clergyman
Religion
Church of England

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
1820 [EA] - → Other
Prospect Hill [ Jamaica | St Andrew ]

Leased enslaved people to this estate.

1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Owner
Unknown [ Jamaica | Port Royal ]