UCL

William Bucknor II

Profile & Legacies Summary

No Dates

Biography

William Bucknor/Buckner, occupation given as "jobber & pen" and a settler in St James in 1774 with 30 enslaved people and 6 stock. His estate included 2 men bearing arms and 3 women or children.


Sources

Edward Long, 'A List of Sugar Estates and other Properties in the Parish of Saint James as they were in the Month of September 1774 shewing the number of white People residing in said Parish particularising those able to bear Arms, the number of Slaves & Stock & the number of hogsheads of Sugar made on the several Estates in the Crop of the year 1774' transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/StJames1774.htm.

Associated Estates (3)

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
1789 [EA] - 1794 [LA] → Owner
Unity Hall Estate [ Jamaica | St James ]

Given in trust by William Bucknor to John Mowatt

1795 [EA] - 1795 [LA] → Previous owner
Unity Hall Estate [ Jamaica | St James ]
1792 [EA] - → Owner
Unknown [ Jamaica | St Ann ]