UCL

George Wright

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1846

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Resident planter, awarded the compensation as owner-in-fee of the Greenwall and Friendship Valley estates in St David and St Thomas-in-the-East, Jamaica.

  1. "Oct. 4 [1846] At Greenwall Estate, Jamaica, aged 58, George Wright, esq. proprietor of that property, and Chief Magistrate and Member of Assembly for the parish of St. David."

Sources

T71/866 St David nos. 74 and 75; T71/862 St Thomas-in-the-East no. 31. The latter identifies the awardee as George Wright of St David. It is possible that other awards currently associated with him were to a different man of the same name.

  1. Gentleman's Magazine December 1846. p. 670

Associated Claims (10)

Jamaica Kingston 1024
£191 6s 4d
Awardee
Details
Jamaica Kingston 807
£260 7s 0d
Awardee
Details
Jamaica St Catherine 657
£402 17s 6d
Awardee
Details
Jamaica St David 103 (Aeolus Valley Estate)
£4,996 10s 1d
Awardee (Receiver)
Details
Jamaica St David 108 (Easington)
£189 15s 11d
Awardee (Trustee)
Details
Jamaica St David 74
£408 8s 3d
Awardee
Details
Jamaica St David 75 (Greenwall)
£3,893 15s 1d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
Details
Jamaica St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey 31 (Friendship Valley)
£782 15s 0d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
Details
Jamaica St Thomas-in-the-Vale 126 (Golden Grove)
£979 0s 0d
Awardee (Administrator)
Details
Jamaica St Thomas-in-the-Vale 132 (Peartree Grove)
£3,244 7s 1d
Awardee (Receiver)
Details

Associated Estates (13)

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
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Receiver
Aeolus Valley Estate [ Jamaica | St David ]
1829 [EA] - → Attorney
Aeolus Valley Estate [ Jamaica | St David ]
1826 [EA] - → Owner
Albion [2] [ Jamaica | St David ]
1820 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
Content Plantation [ Jamaica | St Andrew ]
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Administrator
Golden Grove [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-Vale ]

Awarded the compensation as administrator of Edward Evans under a deed of 1813.

1826 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Greenwall [ Jamaica | St David ]
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
Mount Charles [ Jamaica | Port Royal ]
1832 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
Palmyra [ Jamaica | St David ]
1830 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Receiver
Peartree Grove [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-Vale ]
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
Retreat [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-Vale ]
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
Stanhope [ Jamaica | Clarendon ]
1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Joint owner
urban (Kingston) [ Jamaica | Kingston ]
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Owner
urban (Kingston) [ Jamaica | Kingston ]