UCL

Thomas John Williams

Profile & Legacies Summary

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Biography

Slave-owner in Jamaica, owner of Mount Olivet between at least 1809 and 1832, when the estate and enslaved people appear to have been sold ahead of the compensation process. Probably the free man of colour marrying Catherine Barber of St Elizabeth in 1782.


Sources

Williams, Thomas John, m 2/11/1782 in St. Elizabeth to Catherine Barber, after banns. Not white. Both of St. Elizabeth. B0037, I, p. 301, EXCERPTS FROM ANGLICAN PARISH REGISTERS DISSENTER MARRIAGE REGISTERS AND CIVIL REGISTRATION Utten to Young, http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Rw_u-y.htm.

Associated Estates (1)

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
1809 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Owner
Mount Olivet [ Jamaica | St Elizabeth ]