UCL

James Gayleard

Profile & Legacies Summary

1780 - 1855

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Resident slave-owner in Jamaica.

  1. President of the Council in Jamaica for 17 years, according to Barry Higman, and elsewhere shown to have been in that position in 1840, and also a Master in the Jamaican Court of Chancery, buried in the churchyard of Spanish Town Cathedral.

Sources

NB There is possibility that some of the linkages shown by LBS for James Gayleard refer to James Gayleard jun. , although in the compensation records the latter appears to be specifically identified as 'jun.'

  1. B. W. Higman Plantation Jamaica pp. 88-89, from which the life-dates shown for James Gaylord are also taken.

Associated Claims (6)

Jamaica Clarendon 130
£32 11s 9d
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Jamaica Clarendon 76
£414 12s 4d
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Jamaica Kingston 2292
£29 3s 1d
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Jamaica St Ann 302 (Great Pond)
£3,867 11s 10d
Unsuccessful claimant (Executor or executrix)
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Jamaica St Catherine 135
£147 9s 5d
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Jamaica St Catherine 486 (Bernard Lodge)
£661 0s 7d
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Associated Estates (7)

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
1826 [EA] - → Attorney
Bossue [ Jamaica | Manchester ]
1834 [EA] - → Executor
Great Pond [ Jamaica | St Ann ]
1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
Great Pond [ Jamaica | St Ann ]
1817 [EA] - → Executor
Great Pond [ Jamaica | St Ann ]
1826 [EA] - → Attorney
Hopewell [2] [ Jamaica | St Ann ]
1820 [EA] - → Attorney
Marshall's Pen and Martin Hill [ Jamaica | Manchester ]
1820 [EA] - → Attorney
Unknown [ Jamaica | Trelawny ]