George Marcy

Owner of Kepp estate in St Elizabeth, Jamaica.

1. George Marcy was proprietor of Geneva estate in Westmoreland, Jamaica, between 1810 and 1826.

2. The same George Marcy was listed as owner of Kepp estate in St Elizabeth, Jamaica, in 1840. He transferred 18 enslaved people from Geneva estate to Kepp in 1829, around the time that Geneva estate was taken over by Charles Armstrong, the mortgagee.

3. George Marcy of Westmoreland in the Island of Jamaica married Elizabeth Nichols by licence, 10/12/1805 in Chelmarsh, Shropshire, England.

4. His daughter Frances Ann Davis Marcy married Taylor Cathcart (q.v.) in 1823. The death certificate of Frances Ann Davis Cathcart née Marcy gives her parents as George Marcy, Landed Proprietor, and Elizabeth Marcy née Nicholls. According to the censuses of 1851, Frances Ann Davis Marcy was born c. 1807 in London.

5. Mentioned in Philip Henry Gosse's book The Birds of Jamaica: "... I have been assured by an observant friend, George Marcy, Esq., of the Kepp, that he, on occasion, countered no less than eighteen different notes, proceeding from a Mocking-bird perched on a tree in his garden."

T71/870 St Elizabeth claim no. 589 (Kepp).

1. Jamaica Almanacs (1810, 1816, 1817, 1818, 1820, 1822, 1826).

2. Jamaica Almanac (1840). T71/173 [unpaginated].

3. Ancestry.com, Shropshire, England, Extracted Parish Records [database online].

4. See separate entry for Taylor Cathcart. Death of Frances Ann Davis Cathcart: General Register Office for Scotland 1899 423 006.

5. Philip Henry Gosse, The Birds of Jamaica (London, John Van Voorst, 1847) p. 145.