Henry Lord Garrigues

Merchant in Jamaica, owner with Sarah Bar[r]iffe of the Yarmouth estate in Vere Jamaica, and appearing in various capacities in some 17 other awards, largely in the central parishes of Jamaica, son of Abednego Garrigues (d. 1791-2) and Jane Frances Lord, and brother of Peter Francis Garrigues (q.v.).  Henry Lord Garrigues was among the magistrates for Vere in the 1857 and 1865 Jamaica Almanacs, and then for Clarendon in the 1870 Jamaica Almanac.

1. Louisa Rodon Garrigues, the daughter of Henry Lord Garrigues 'merchant' and Frances Anderson Garrigues of Torrington Square, appears on the baptism register at St George Bloomsbury 15/04/1830. Louisa Rodon Garrigues of Torrington Square, St George, Bloomsbury, aged 5 months, was buried on 5th August 1830, in the Parish of St James, Westminster.

2. The will of Abednego Garrigues, practitioner of physic and surgery, of St Thomas-in-the-Vale, was proved 22/11/1792. Henry Lord Garrigues born 04/04/1790, had one child (Caroline Lord Garrigues) with Maria Dally c. 1812 (a 'free mulatto'), and married Frances Anderson Christian 29/04/1813 Kingston.  The couple had 11 children (in additon to Louisa Rodon shown above) baptised in Kingston or St Andrew between 1814 and 1832.

T71/858 Vere No. 76.

1. Ancestry.com, London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906 [database online]: a note says 'according to the certificate from the Rev. J.B. Murray curate St Olave West Street transmitted....15/04/1830.'; Findmypast.co.uk, Westminster Burials [database online].

2. http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/r/r3g01.htm [accessed 20/02/2012].

We are grateful to Mary Hewitt for her assistance with compiling this entry.