Jonathan Worrell

Absentee in England, having left Barbados c. 1816, awarded the compensation with Septimus Worrell (q.v.) for the enslaved people on an estate, probably Sedge Pond, as trustees of Jonathan Worrell and for two other groups of enslaved people in Barbados.

1. Son of Jonathan Worrell of Mickleham. Charles Worrell, brother of Jonathan and Septimus, who appears in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, became a major landowner in Prince Edward Island after his father bought him land there to compensate for the bequest of the Barbados' estates to Jonathan and William Bryant Worrell.

2. Died 1843. Will of Jonathan Worrell of East Grinstead Sussex proved 04/04/1843.

3. Will of Jonathan Worrell of Mickleham Surrey proved 22/03/1814. Will of William Bryant Worrall or Worrell proprietor of Rouen proved 26/06/1832.

Barbados claim nos. 207, 2035; T71/899 Barbados claim no. 4587; James C. Brandow Genealogies of Barbados Families p. 633.

1. Vere Langford Oliver, Caribbeana being miscellaneous papers relating to the history, genealogy, topography, and antiquities of the British West Indies (6 vols., London, Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke, 1910-1919) Vol 5, p. 45: Jonathan and Septimus Worrell were the sons of Jonathan Worrell of Juniper Hall, Mickleham [d. 26/01/1814 aged 79]; widow Catherine died at Albemarle Street 01/09/1835. Also owned 44,000 acres in Prince Edward Island, both buried at Mickleham Co Surrey; Dictionary of Candian Biography Online, M. Brook Taylor, 'Worrell, Charles, lawyer, landowner, businessman, office holder, justice of the peace, militia officer and politician.'

2. PROB 11/1978.

3. PROB 11/1554; PROB 11/1802.