Thomas Geoghegan Senior

1. Thomas Geoghegan [Senior], Planter, aged 55, St Anns, buried 08/04/1834. The three Thomas Geohegans can be distinguished as Thomas Geoghegan Senior, Thomas Geoghegan Junior (q.v.), and Thomas Kelly Geoghegan (q.v.)

2. Thomas Geohegan Senior had some high-ranking associates. On 28/09/1806, “baptised at Friendship Penn, Geoghegan Thomas [Jnr] the son of Thomas [Snr] and Elizabeth Geoghegan, born on the 20th of May last. Sponsors: Hon John Hiatt [q.v.], James H Byles [q.v.], Thomas Kelly Geoghegan[q.v.], John Mignot, Mrs Radcliffe, Mrs Hayne, Mary Mignot. Baptised on the same day, Terence Geoghegan son of colour of Thomas Geoghegan [Senior]. Sponsors: John Mignot Mr and Mrs.” Perhaps ‘Terence Geohegan’ was named after Marley estate attorney Terence McDermot, for whom Thomas Geohegan Senior and Francis Bowen became executors in 1817. A group of enslaved people were also baptised on the same day.

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

1. Family Search, Jamaica, Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880, Burials 1826-1836, vol. 1, image 68, p. 1 30.

2. Family Search, Jamaica, Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880, St Ann, Baptisms, Marriages, Burials 1768-1839, vol. 1, image 78, p. 153. T71/33 p. 916.