Green Park

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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
1803 [SY] - 1831 [EY] → Annuitant
1803 [SY] - 1820 [EY] → Tenant-for-life
1803 [SY] - 1804 [EY] → Tenant-in-tail or Remainderman
1803 [SY] - 1816 [EY] → Tenant-in-tail or Remainderman
1803 [SY] - → Legatee
1820 [SY] - → Legatee
1803 [SY] - → Legatee
1820 [SY] - → Legatee
1820 [SY] - 1821 [EY] → Joint owner
1821 [SY] - → Annuitant
1820 [SY] - 1821 [EY] → Legatee
1820 [SY] - 1821 [EY] → Legatee
1820 [SY] - 1821 [EY] → Legatee
1765 [EA] - 1779 [LA] → Joint owner
1787 [EA] - 1803 [EY] → Joint owner

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£10,172 17S 9D

Estate Information (54)

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1765
[Name] Green Park  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to Peter Holme Esq. and the heirs of Thomas Southworth deceased. Account filed by Robert Grant.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 134
1766
[Name] Green Park  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to Peter Holme Esq. in Liverpool and William Atherton. Account filed by Robert Grant.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 1
1767
[Name] Green Park  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to Peter Holme and William Atherton Esqs. In England. Account filed by Robert Grant as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 52
1768
[Name] Green Park  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to Peter Holme Esq. and William Atherton. Account filed by Francis Falshaw as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 147
1770
[Name] Green Park  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to Peter Holme Esq. and William Atherton. Account filed by Francis Falshaw as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 19
1779
[Name] Green Park  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of William Atherton and Peter Holme Esqs. Account filed Christopher Forsyth as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 146
1782
[Name] Green Park Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of William Atherton Esquire. Account filed by Edmund Eccleston, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 189-190
1783
[Name] Green Park  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of William Atherton Esq. Account filed Edmund Eccleston as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 58
1784
[Name] Green Park Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Property of William Atherton Esquire. Account filed by Edmund Eccleston, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 21
1785
[Name] Green Park  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of William Atherton Esq. Account filed Edmund Eccleston as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 110
1787
[Name] Greenpark Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum cattle  
 

Properties of William Atherton Esq; account filed by Edmund Eccleston, overseer. Greenpark Estate and Spring Vale Penn filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 102
1787
[Name] Greenpark Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, old copper  
 

The property of William Atherton Esquire. Account filed by Edmund Eccleston as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 16
1788
[Name] Green Park  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

The property of William Atherton Esquire. Account filed by Edmund Eccleston as overseer. Accounts filed for 01/01/1788 to 31/08/1788.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 60
1789
[Name] Green Park  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

The property of William Atherton Esquire. Account filed by Edmund Eccleston as overseer. Accounts filed for 01/09/1788 to 01/09/1789.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 188
1790
[Name] Green Park  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of William Atherton Esquire. Account filed by Edmund Eccleston as overseer. Accounts filed for 01/09/1789 to 01/09/1790.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 220-221 [f.111]
1791
[Name] Green Park Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle and horses  
 

The property of William Atherton Esquire. Account filed by Edmund Eccleston as overseer. Accounts filed for 01/09/1790 to 01/09/1791. Green Park Plantation and Spring Vale Penn filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 103-104
1792
[Name] Green Park Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, corn, some cattle  
 

The property of William Atherton Esquire. Account filed by William Fairclough as overseer. Accounts filed for 01/09/1791 to 01/09/1792. Green Park Plantation and Spring Vale Penn filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 449-450
1793
[Name] Green Park Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

The property of William Atherton Esquire. Account filed by William Fairclough as overseer at Green Park. Accounts filed for 01/09/1792 to 01/09/1793. Green Park Estate and Spring Vale Penn filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 395-396
1794
[Name] Green Park Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of William Atherton Esq. Filed by William Fairclough as overseer for the period 01/09/1793 to 01/09/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 163-164
1795
[Name] Green Park Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, steers and cows  
 

Belonging to William Mherton? Esq. Account filed by William ? Clough, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 12
1796
[Name] Green Park Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum,fat cow and steer  
 

Belonging to William Atherton Esq. Account filed by William Fairclough, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 87
1797
[Name] Green Park Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by William Fairclough for the period 01/09/1796 to 01/09/1797.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 65
1798
[Name] Green Park Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by William Tainclough.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 85
1799
[Name] Green Park Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed by William Fairclough.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 87
1799
[Name] Green Park Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Wm Fairclough for the period 25/07/1799 to 25/07/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 146-147
1799
[Name] Green-Park  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Trelawney as a sugar estate with two cattle millsand a windmill 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.
1801
[Name] Green Park Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Owner details not recorded. Account filed by William Fairclough.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 107
1803
[Name] Green Park Estates  
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle  
 

Account filed in the name of William Fairclough (status not given).

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 49
1803
 

Bequeathed by William Atherton to his brother John Atherton as tenant-for-life and thereafter to his brothers Richard and Henry. William Atherton also left an annuity of £2,000 and a lump sum of £5,000 to his wife Elizabeth Atherton, £2,500 to his nephew Thomas Makin, £2,500 to his niece Ellen Weston nee Makin, £3,000 in trust to "my stepson Rev. Joseph Brenton Wanton", £300 to his servant John Smith and an annuity of £20 to "Mary Southworth a mulatto woman in Preston... the said annuity being in lieu of any claim she may set up against me".

 
PROB 11/1403/224
1804
[Name] Green Park Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum, fat steers  
 

Owners name not given. Account filed in the name of William Bursclough, overseer to said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 85
1807
[Name] Green Park  
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle  
 

Account filed by Mr. Fairclough. Filed for 25th July 1806-25th July 1807.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 18
1808
[Name] Green Park  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Account filed by William Fairclough. Filed for 25th July 1807-25th July 1808.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 147
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 550(Tot)  
[Name] Green Park  
[Stock] 302  
 

Registered to John Atherton.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Trel.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 541(Tot)  
[Name] Green Park  
 

Registered to John Atherton.

 
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] 543(Tot)  
[Name] Green-Park  
[Stock] 311  
 

Registered to Edward Atherton.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 531(Tot)  
[Name] Green Park  
[Stock] 282  
 

Registered to Edward Atherton.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 528(Tot) 275(F) 253(M)  
[Name] Green Park Estate  
 

In the possession of James Scott as Attorney to Edward Atherton Esquire.

 
T71/228 2167-2186
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 543(Tot)  
[Name] Green Park  
[Stock] 329  
 

Registered to Edward Atherton.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 551(Tot)  
[Name] Green Park  
 

Registered to Edward Atherton.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 532(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Steele as Attorney to Edward Atherton Esquire the Owner.

 
T71/231 [unpaginated]
1820
 

Bequeathed by John Atherton to his nephew Edward Atherton and his brother Henry. Henry in fact predeceased John, his moity being inherited by Henry's daughters Eleanora Atherton and Lucy Willis. John Atherton also left £35,000 to his nephew Edward Atherton for the purchase of property, £2,000 to his nephew Thomas Makin and £2,000 to his niece Ellen Weston nee Makin as well as other smaller legacies.

 
PROB 11/1636/408
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 540(Tot)  
[Name] Green Park  
[Stock] 308  
 

Registered to Edward Atherton.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1821
 

Bequeathed by Edward Atherton to his children, although it's not clear whether he had any children, having married Elizabeth Wood Smith nee Wallace in 1819. He also left Elizabeth £500 and an annuity of £500 per annum, and £2,000 each to his sisters Mary, Elizabeth and Catherine Atherton. Failing direct issue, the estate was to pass to his nephew James Park, eldest son of Sir James Allan Park.

The causes of Atherton v. Park and Arrowsmith v Ingram presumably refer to the will of Edward Atherton. See:

TNA C 13/849/23: Atherton v Park. Plaintiffs: Mary Atherton and others. Defendant: James Allan Park and wife, Thomas Martin, Sir James Allan Park and wife, William Peatt Litt and Richard Steele (abroad). Amended by an order dated 4 April 1826: Jane Wallace, Harrison Arrowsmith and wife and Richard Ingham John added as defendants. Amended by an order dated 21 May 1827: Louisa Lucy Park, Katherine Eliza Park and Emma Mary Park added as defendants.

TNA C 13/2895/2: Arrowsmith v Ingram. Plaintiffs: Harrison Arrowsmith and others. Defendant: William Platlitt, Richard Steele, James Park alias James Allan Parke, Sir James Allan Park and wife, Mary Atherton, Elizabeth Atherton, Catherine Atherton, Richard Ingham and wife, Ann Smith and Jane Wallace.

 
PROB 11/1638/348
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 530(Tot)  
[Name] Green Park  
[Stock] 303  
 

Registered to Edward heirs of Atherton.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 531(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Steele & william Allen as Attornies to the Heirs of Edward Atherton deceased.

 
T71/233 [Unpaginated]
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 532(Tot)  
[Name] Green Park  
[Stock] 286  
 

Registered to heirs of Edward Atherton.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al20.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 542(Tot)  
[Name] Green Park  
[Stock] 286  
 

Registered to heirs of Edward Atherton.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 542(Tot) 278(F) 264(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Carey & Samuel Hilton Esquires as Attornies to William Peatt Litt Esquire and heirs of Edward Atherton deceased.

 
T71/234 [unpaginated]
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 542(Tot)  
[Name] Green Park  
 

Registered to Edward H. and W. P. Litt Atherton.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al19.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 542(Tot)  
[Name] Green Park  
[Stock] 247  
 

Registered to heirs of Edward Atherton and W. P. Litt.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 554(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Carey as Attorney to William Peatt Litt and the Heirs of Edward Atherton deceased the Owners.

 
T81/236 [unpaginated]
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 548(Tot)  
[Name] Green Park  
[Stock] 244  
 

Registered to W. P. Litt, and heirs of E. Atherton.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 555(Tot)  
[Name] Green Park  
 

Registered to W. P. Litt and heirs of W. Atherton.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 561(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Carey as Attorney to William Peatt Litt and heirs of Edward Atherton deceased.

 
T71/241 82-83