John Kennion late of Jamaica

It has been inferred by LBS that John Kennion late of Jamaica who died c.1792 was the same man as John Kenyon shown as co-owner of Chester estate in Trelawny, and if so then also the father of the 'patron of the arts and poet' John Kenyon (q.v.). John Kennion late of Jamaica certainly held half of an estate in Trelawny, had a wife from the Simpson family [previous owners of Chester estate] and a son and heir named John and died c. 1792, when the Accounts Produce show a shift to the heirs of John Kennion, leaving his children in the care of his brother Samuel Kennion, all details consistent with the known early life of John Kenyon the patron of the arts and poet.

John Kennion married Milborough Simpson of Trelawny 6 April 1781. (She is also known in some records as Millborough.) Millborough Kennion's death or burial date was 7 March 1788.

Meredith B. Raymond, ‘Kenyon, John (1784–1856)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15430, accessed 1 Feb 2017]

For marriage: Family Search: Caribbean Marriages, 1591-1905; For death: Family Search: Caribbean Deaths and Burials, 1790-1906. With thanks to Mark Brooks for these references.