Bamboo Sugar Estate

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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
1757 [EA] - → Owner
1799 [EA] - → Owner
1810 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Previous owner
1815 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder

John Graham Clarke, a mortgagee for £27728 12s 2d (mortgage dated 01/08/1815).

1815 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - → Trustee
1832 [EA] - → Trustee and Executor

Associated Claims (1)

£4,968 12S 3D

Estate Information (26)

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1757
[Name] Bamboo Estate  
 

Property already in the possession of Herbert Newton Jarrett in 1757 when he bought Orange Valley estate in Trelawney.

 
http://www.orange-tree-valley.co.uk/
1799
[Number of enslaved people] 205(Tot)  
[Name] Bamboo  
 

Registered in Hanover to John Carr with 205 enslaved people in Balcarres' letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, return given at a vestry meeting 23/11/1799.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 23.
1799
[Name] Bamboo  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Hanover as a sugar estate with a cattle mill in James Robertson's 1804 map of Jamaica.

 
To the King's most excellent Majesty, this map of the island of Jamaica, constructed from actual surveys. . . (London, J. Robertson, 1804), based on Robertson's survey of the county of Cornwall which he compeleted in 1799.
1803
[Name] Bamber Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the heirs of John Carr Esq deceased. Account filed by Robert Walker as overseer for the period 31/12/1802 to 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 206-207
1807
[Name] Bamboo  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Property of John Carr Esq. deceased. Account presented by Robert Walker.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 154
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 238(Tot)  
[Name] Bamboo  
[Stock] 94  
 

Registered to heirs of John Carr.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Hanov.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1810, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 244(Tot)  
[Name] Bamboo  
[Stock] 39  
 

Registered to John Carr deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812co2.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 256(Tot)  
[Name] Bamboo  
[Stock] 101  
 

Registered to William Carr Walker.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 254(Tot) 117(F) 137(M)  
[Name] Bamboo Estate  
 

In the possession of William Carr Walker as trustee and part owner of Bamboo Estate.

 
T71/190 710-713
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 257(Tot)  
[Name] Bamboo  
[Stock] 135  
 

Registered to William Carr Walker.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 267(Tot)  
[Name] Bamboo  
[Stock] 148  
 

Registered to William Carr Walker.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 312(Tot)  
[Name] Bamboo  
[Stock] 195  
 

Registered to William Carr Walker.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 317(Tot)  
[Name] Bamboo  
[Stock] 42  
 

Registered to William Carr Walker.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 271(Tot) 117(F) 154(M)  
[Name] Bamboo Estate  
 

In the possession of William Carr Walker as owner.

 
T71/192 495-496
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 298(Tot)  
[Name] Bamboo  
[Stock] 159  
 

Registered to William Carr Walker.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 306(Tot)  
[Name] Bamboo  
[Stock] 151  
 

Registered to William Carr Walker.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 279(Tot) 123(F) 150(M)  
[Name] Bamboo Estate  
 

In the possession of William Carr Walker as owner.

 
T71/193 1
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 297(Tot)  
[Name] Bamboo  
[Stock] 20  
 

Registered to William Carr Walker.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 304(Tot)  
[Name] Bamboo  
[Stock] 16  
 

Registered to William Carr Walker.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 281(Tot)  
[Name] Bamboo  
[Stock] 24  
 

Registered to William C. Walker.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 283(Tot) 125(F) 158(M)  
[Name] Bamboo Estate  
 

In the possession of William Carr Walker as owner.

 
T71/197 140
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 281(Tot)  
[Name] Bamboo  
[Stock] 8  
 

Registered to William Carr Walker.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 281(Tot)  
[Name] Bamboo  
[Stock] 25  
 

Registered to William Carr Walker.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 286(Tot) 129(F) 157(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Richard Chambers as executor and trustee of William Carr Walker.

 
T71/199 283
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 286(Tot)  
[Name] Bamboo  
[Stock] 16  
 

Registered to William Carr Walker.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Hanov.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Bamboo  
[Size] 700  
 

Registered to heirs of W. C. Walker.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Hanover.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.