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Richard Roper

Profile & Legacies Summary

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Biography

  1. Richard Roper was an Ensign in the Kingston Foot Militia before 1796. In 1798, Roper was appointed 1st Lieutenant in 3rd Company (Jews) in Kingston Foot Militia, and in 1807 he was appointed Captain in the St-Thomas-in-the-Vale Regiment.

  2. In 1809 the Recess estate in St Thomas-in-the-Vale was recorded as being registered to Richard Roper, but by 1815 it was registered to to Nicholas Gyles.

  3. In 1813, ‘Richard Roper, of the parish of St Thomas in the Vale, planter’ was called to be a juror for the 1814 February Grand Court, Jamaica.

  4. In 1818, three parcels of land belonging to Richard Roper in St Ann’s were offered for sale by Roper's attorneys, Theophilus Stains and Wm Jayne.

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


Sources

  1. Jamaicanfamilysearch.com [online]. 1796 Jamaica Almanac - Militia Surrey; 1801 Almanac; 1811 Jamaica Almanac - St Catherine etc. Slave-owners.

  2. 'Recess [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-Vale ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/1439.

  3. Royal Gazette of Jamaica - Saturday 29 May 1813, p.10. British Newspaper Archive.

  4. Royal Gazette of Jamaica - Saturday 26 December 1818, p. 2. British Newspaper Archive.

Associated Estates (1)

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
1809 [EA] - → Not known
Recess [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-Vale ]