Jasper Farmer Baillie

Profile & Legacies Summary

9^th Apr 1791 - 1866

Biography

Man of colour, an Anglican clergyman educated at Oxford. Jasper Baillie, 'the supposed son of David Baillie Esq., Attorney at Law, & Anna Lewis a free brown woman', born 09/04/1791 and baptised 25/06/1802 in St Andrew. Louisa Baillie and Henrietta Baillie, children of Susanna Lewis 'a brown woman' by David Baillie, born 02/02/1793 and 03/03/1795 respectively, had been baptised in Kingston 09/05/1796.

Jasper Farmer Baillie, son of David Baillie of Jamaica, matriculated Brasenose Oxford 09/05/1812 aged 19, and became an Anglican clergyman, dying in London formerly of Fairford Gloucestershire in 1866, leaving £6000. In 1861 he had been a lodger at Elm House, Newchurch Ryde, Isle of Wight aged 70, born Jamaica, clergyman without cure of souls.

Sources

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

Ancestry.com, Oxford University Alumni, 1500-1886 [database online]; National Probate Calendar 1866.

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish?

Wealth at death

£6,000

University

Oxford (Brasenose) [1812-1815 ]

Occupation

Clergyman

Religion

Church of England

Associated Estates (1)

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