Emanuel Timberlake

350 acres and 82 enslaved people were owned by the estate of [?] Timberlake in St Andrew, Jamaica, in 1753. Emanuel Timberlake was listed in the Jamaican Quit Rent books for 1754 as the owner of 349 acres of land in St Andrew; presumably this is the estate of the deceased Emanuel Timberlake.

Emanuel Timberlake of St Andrew, carpenter. Estate probated in Jamaica in 1741. Slave-ownership at probate: 86 of whom 45 were listed as male and 41 as female. 27 were listed as boys, girls or children. Total value of estate at probate: £3,030.16 Jamaican currency of which £2,251.5 currency was the value of enslaved people. Estate valuation included £0 currency cash, £0 currency debts and £42.13 currency plate.

Emanuel Timberlake and his wife Sarah had a son, Richard, baptised in St Andrew in 1723. Emanuel Timberlake and his wife Elizabeth had three children baptised in St Andrew: William (1729), Sarah (1730) and Hurst (1738) and two baptised in Kingston: Samuel (1734) and Richard (1736).

Richard Timberlake and Hurst, his brother, sons of the late Emanuel Timberlake, gentleman, in Kingston in Jamaica, were enrolled at Manchester Free Grammar School, 12/10/1751.

CO137/28 pp. 169-175 transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1753Andrew.htm; 'A List of landholders in the Island of Jamaica together with the number of acres each person possessed taken from the quit rent books in the year 1754', TNA CO 142/31 transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples2/1754lead.htm.

Trevor Burnard, Database of Jamaican inventories, 1674-1784.

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

Findmypast.co.uk, School & university registers [database online].