William Fairclough

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Biography

Assumed to be resident and dead by 1823.

  1. Probably the William Fairclough who was manager on the Tharp estates from some point after 1812 until 1822. Also a slave-owner in his own right: he and James Hedley (q.v.) had co-owned two estates called Catadupa and Mocho in St James until c.1821.

  2. Hon. William Fairclough was Custos of Trelawny in 1821 and presided at the trial of Tommy, alias Tom Brown, and Hamlet for the murder of Henry Edwards esq at the Linton Park Estate (the defendants were found guilty, sentenced to death by Fairclough, and hanged at Linton Park), 1821.

  3. He was a Second Lieutenant in the Trelawny Regiment in 1802, had progressed to Colonel of the Regiment by 1818 and was promoted Major General in 1819.


Sources

  1. Description of the Tharp papers at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~atgwgw/resources/jsourcetharp.html [accessed 30/09/2015].

  2. Morning Post, 22/12/1821.

  3. Jamaica Almanac, 1802; Royal Gazette of Jamaica, 09/01/1819.

We are grateful to Paul Hitchings for his assistance with compiling this entry.


Further Information

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Associated Estates (14)

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
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Trustee and Executor
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
1809 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Joint owner
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
1817 [EA] - → Owner
1817 [EA] - → Receiver
1815 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Trustee
1826 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Previous owner
1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Owner
1834 [EA] - → Judgement creditor

Deceased judgement creditor, compensation claimed by his executor.

1839 [EA] - → Not known
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Trustee and Executor
1817 [EA] - → Agent

Relationships (1)

Business associates
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