James Guthrie of Westmoreland

Memorial inscription at Cross Path, Westmoreland, "HERE LIETH THE BODY OF JAMES GUTHRIE, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 10th DAY OF JULY, 1728".

James Guthrie of Westmoreland, Esquire. Estate probated in Jamaica in 1729. Slave-ownership at probate: 198 of whom 107 were listed as male and 91 as female. 0 were listed as boys, girls or children. Total value of estate at probate: £7224.97 Jamaican currency of which £6331 currency was the value of enslaved people. Estate valuation included £0 currency cash, £0 currency debts and £82.13 currency plate.

James Guthrie had three daughters, his heirs: Jannet who married [1] John Hynes and [2] Francis Sadler Hals; Helen, who married Thomas Storer Esquire of Westmoreland; and Elizabeth, who married [1] Haughton of Westmoreland and [2] Major Edward Clarke.

James Henry Lawrence-Archer, Monumental Inscriptions of the British West Indies (1875) p. 335 transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Barche17.htm.

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

Memorial inscription at Halse Hall: "IN MEMORY OF ELIZABETH ELLETSON, DAUGHTER OF JOHN & JANNET HAYNES, DIED AUGUST 31st, 1760 JANNET HYNES, WIFE OF THE ABOVE JOHN HYNES, AND MOTHER OF HELEN BEACH, WAS ELDEST DAUGHTER & COHEIRESS OF JAMES GUTHRIE OF WESTMORELAND, AND WAS SECONDLY MARRIED TO FRANCIS SADLER HALS, ESQRE., BY WHOM SHE HAD NO ISSUE.

HELEN, THE SECOND DAUGHTER & COHEIRESS OF THE SAID JAMES GUTHRIE, WAS MARRIED TO THOMAS STORER, ESQRE, OF WESTMORELAND, BY WHOM SHE HAD ISSUE OF ELIZABETH THE 3RD DAUGHTER & COHEIRESS OF THE SAID JAMES GUTHRIE, WHO WAS FIRST MARRIED TO HAUGHTON, ESQRE., OF WESTMORELAND, BY WHOM SHE HAD A SON NAMED WILLIAM, AND BY HER 2ND HUSBAND, MAJOR EDWARD CLARKE SHE HAD ISSUE GEORGE HYDE & OTHER ISSUES." (James Henry Lawrence-Archer, Monumental Inscriptions of the British West Indies (1875) p. 335 transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Barche17.htm.)