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Alexander Farquharson

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1821

Biography

Jamaica slave-owner, co-owner with Alexander Glennie (q.v.), almost certainly his cousin, of Job's Hill in St Mary Jamaica until his death in 1821.

  1. 21 [September 1821] in the island of Jamaica [death of] Alexander Farquharson Esq. of Jobshill.

Sources

Genealogical sites e.g. http://www.victorianweb.org/history/letters/jamaica.html carry a reference to an inventory dated 1838 'Farquharson Alexander 07/11/1838 late in Belnaglack in the parish of Glenbucket, sometime in Jobshill in the island of Jamaica, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Inventories SC1/36/15.' It is not clear how this man was connected to the owner of Job's Hill dying in 1821.

  1. Blackwoods March 1822 p. 382.

Further Information

Absentee?

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
1815 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Owner
Job's Hill Plantation [ Jamaica | St Mary ]
1823 [EA] - → Previous owner
Job's Hill Plantation [ Jamaica | St Mary ]

Relationships (1)

Alexander Farquharson
Business associates
Alexander Glennie
Details
Notes →
Probably also cousins: they were described as the nephews of Alex. Ritchie in a memorial to Ritchie in Kingston Cathedral. The Jobshill estate was registered to 'Glennie and Farquharson', probably...