Peter Frederick Calame

Variously given as merchant and wharfinger, of Westmoreland. Father-in-law of Andrew White senior and James White of Liverpool (both q.v.).

1. An online website gives Peter Frederick Calame naturalised in Jamaica, 06/12/1744.

2. Of Westmoreland, merchant, when he married Elizabeth Hopkins of the same parish, spinster, 07/0/1750. John Hopkins, son of Peter Frederick and Elizabeth Calame baptised in Westmoreland 18/03/1753. He died as an infant was was buried 06/08/1754. Susannah Elizabeth, same parents, baptised 23/03/1755. Mary, same parents, born Feburary and baptised 26/03/1758 in Westmoreland.

3. Frederick Peter Calame was buried in Westmoreland, 06/02/1758.

4. Peter Fred. Calame of Westmoreland, wharfinger. Estate probated in Jamaica in 1758. Slave-ownership at probate: 19 of whom 15 were listed as male and 4 as female. 0 were listed as boys, girls or children. Total value of estate at probate: £1357.75 Jamaican currency of which £945 currency was the value of enslaved people. Estate valuation included £60 currency cash, £0 currency debts and £4 currency plate.

1. https://www.ancestry.com/boards/surnames.calame/46/mb.ashx [accessed 10/082018].

2. Familysearch.org, Jamaican Parish Registers, Westmoreland Baptisms, marriages, burials 1739-1825, Vol. 1 p. 17 et seq.

3. Ibid.

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

We are grateful to Paul Hitchings for his assistance with compiling this entry.