William Tharp

Attorney for the estates of John Tharp IV (q.v.) between c. 1829 and 1838, although the Tharp papers show correspondence between William Tharp and his uncle John Tharp VI of Chippenham Park (q.v.) dated 1824-9. Son of Thomas Partridge Tharp and his wife Mary Basilia, baptised in Trelawny in 1800.

1. Benjamin M'Mahon c. 1838 described William Tharp as an 'extensive attorney' responsible for several estates, seven of them situated in Trelawny and adjacent to each other: 'Mr Tharp keeps a mistress on every property for which he is concerned...'

2. Most sources show William Tharp as returning to England to live in Sussex after his dismissal as attorney of the Tharp estates c. 1838, but it appears likely that he was the William Tharp Esq. late of Chester estate bachelor who died at Falmouth 19/11/1847 effects under £800 and for whom Letters of Administration were granted 05/11/1860 to Elizabeth Morgan widow the sister of Albany Villa Cliftonville. Mary Basilia Tharp had died 'of Cliftonville' in 1860.

Tim Barringer 'Land, Labor, Landscape' in Tim Barringer, Wayne Modest (eds.) Victorian Jamaica (2018); Familysearch.org, Jamaica Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880 [database online]; A.E. Furness, 'The Tharp Estates in Jamaica' (2018, https://fgsj.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/The-Tharp-Estates-in-Jamaica-by-A-E-Furness.pdf [accessed 16/10/2019] traces the career of William Tharp as attorney and confirms him as the son of 'Tom' [Thomas Partridge Tharp] of Deans Valley Waterworks.

1. Benjamin M'Mahon, Jamaica Plantership (1839) pp. 163-4.

2. E.g. Furness, 'The Tharp Estates in Jamaica', National Probate Calendar 1860.