John Lunan

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1838

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Resident slave-owner, Member of the House of Assembly and Magistrate in St Catherine.

The will of John Lunan of St Catherine was proved in London 19/09/1839. In it he left his two adjoining houses in Spanishtown to his son John; his house in Kingston to his nephew James Lunan; and £10,000 in consols in trust for his two daughters (also trustees) Eliza Wilkie and Maria Barry and their children.

Sources

http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/r/r3l01.htm [accessed 23/01/2017]

PROB 11/1916/209.

Further Information

Spouse

Married but no further details

Children

John; Eliza; Maria

Associated Claims (2)

Associated Estates (6)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

SD - Association Start Date
SY - Association Start Year
EA - Earliest Known Association
ED - Association End Date
EY - Association End Year
LA - Latest Known Association

1815 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner

Congreve Park / Armistead's Pen [ Jamaica | St Catherine ]

1839 [EA] - → Previous owner

Congreve Park / Armistead's Pen [ Jamaica | St Catherine ]

1817 [EA] - → Other

Ferry Toll [ Jamaica | St Catherine ]

Chairman

1809 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner

Hampstead [ Jamaica | St Catherine ]

1826 [EA] - → Attorney

Heart's Ease [ Jamaica | St Catherine ]

1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Other

St Thomas-in-the-Vale Turnpike [ Jamaica | St Catherine ]

Treasurer

Legacies Summary

Imperial (1)

Army officer

Australia: New South Wales

Details

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John Lunan Wilkie, the grandson and namesake of John Lunan, was an Army officer in New South Wales for whom the Wilkie Memorial Church was built at Young, NSW after his death in 1862. 'The foundation...

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