Hungerford Spooner the younger 'of Jamaica'

Nephew and legatee of his uncles of Charles Spooner of St Kitts (q.v.) and of John Spooner of Grosvenor Square (q.v). Tenant-for-life of Charles Spooner's estates on St Kitts and Tortola under Charles Spooner's will, proved 1790.

1. Hungerford Spooner, son of Hungerford Spooner and Jane, was baptised in St Nicholas Acons, London, 04/06/1755. (An earlier Hungerford Spooner had been baptised to the same parents in St Swithin's in 1752 and died in 1753). Hungerford Spooner, bachelor, 'of Jamaica' married Harriet Luard in St Swithins, 19/12/1791.

2. Hungerford Spooner had 4 reputed children baptised in St Andrew, Jamaica, 06/11/1788: Charles Spooner (age 2 years, mother was Grace, "a mulatto"), Hungerford Spooner (age 1 year, mother was M S. Patterson, "a quadroon"), John Patterson Spooner (age 2 years, mother was M. S. Patterson) and John Hungerford (age 3 years, mother was Esther, "a slave").

3. Hungerford Spooner of Seymour Place, Bryanstone Square, was buried in St Giles in the Fields, Holborn, London, 01/07/1819 age 64. To date no will has been found for him. This man's age at death of 64 is consistent with the Hungerford Spooner son of Hungerford and Jane Spooner baptised in London in 1755.

Familysearch.org, Jamaica, Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880 [database online]. NB Vere Langford Oliver shows a Hungerford Spooner of Archbolds, St Elizabeth dying intestate in 1802, who was the beneficiary under the will of Susanna Young proved in 1797: this was possibly the reputed son of Hungerford Spooner the younger.

1. Ancestry.com, London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 [database online].

2. Familysearch.org, Jamaica Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880 [database online].

3. Ancestry.com, London, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-1980 [database online].