Richard Brodie

Resident Jamaica slave-owner, dying in St Ann's December 1796 'a very old and respectable inhabitant.'

1. Apparently Dr Richard Brodie MD, born 06/11/1752, son of Rev James Brodie and his wife Anne, daughter of James Murray of Clairdon. His father was minister of Latheron in Caithness, Scotland, from 1734.

2. Married Elizabeth Cross in Trelawny in 1781. 'Messrs Richard Brodie and Urquhart Gillespie were registered in Trelawny as medical practitioners in 1783. Richard and Elizabeth Brodie had six children baptised in Jamaica: Oswald (1785), William Cross (1785), Mary D'Raymond (1787), Ann (1792), William Barnett (1792) and Elizabeth Brady (1794). Margaret, daughter of Dr Richard Brodie by Sarah Burnett, "a free person of colour", was born 03/04/1796 and baptised in Trelawny 24/01/1800.

3. Dr Richard Brodie was buried at Berrydale, St Ann, 14/12/1796.

Columbian Magazine December 1796 [excerpted in Caribbeana Vol. IV p. 207].

1. 'Menes Family Tree' on Ancestry.com by 1_becky13 (including reference to the Trelawny Medical Register of 1783); Hew Scott, Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae; the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation... (1928) vol. 7 pp. 125-6; John Henderson, Caithness Family History (1884) pp. 308, 311.

2. Ancestry.com, Caribbean, Select Marriages, 1591-1905 [database online]; Familysearch.org, Jamaica Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880 [database online].

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

We are grateful to David Barker for his assistance with compiling this entry.