Charles Bernard of St James

Resident planter. Son of Charles Bernard of Jamaica and Bristol (q.v.) and his second wife Elizabeth Jane nee Westland. Baptised in St James, Jamaica, 23/03/1788. Died in 1820. Inherited funds or property from his father. Also owner of Wakefield estate, which he presumably bought himself as he was entitled to will it as he chose. Charles Bernard married Elizabeth Samuells Morris in St James, Jamaica, 13/05/1810. Two children baptised in St James: David (1815) and Mary McKenzie (1817). When his wife Eliza Samuells Bernard died in her 87th year in Montego Bay in 1876, she was described as 'ELIZA SAMUELLS BERNARD, widow of CHARLES BERNARD, late of Eden and Bona Vista, in the parish of St. James', although it is not clear that he had co-ownership of these estates before his death.

1. In 1831 as a a result of a suit in Chancery between Elizabeth Samuells Bernard and Charles Edward Bernard [senior], a notice to come forward was made to creditors of Charles Bernard of St James Jamaica 'who died there some time in year 1820.'

Familysearch.org batch nos. I04281-2 and I04281-3; Falmouth Post 17/03/1876.

1. London Gazette 18804 17/05/1831 p. 953.

NB LBS has identified 6 separate men named Charles Bernard, and the possibility of confusion remains: (1) 'Charles Bernard senior' of the 1754 listing; (2) 'Charles Bernard junior' of the 1754 listing, whom we have concluded was Charles Bernard (1720-1790), probably the son of (1); (3) Charles Bernard 'of Bristol' (1750-1797), son of (2) and father of (4); (4) Charles Bernard of St James (d. 1820), son of (3); (5) Charles Bernard of Frampton Lodge (d. c. 1826), probably son of David Bernard (d. c. 1804) and nephew of (3) and first cousin of (4); and (6) Charles Bernard of Carpenters Hall, who was alive at the time of compensation and was probably the son of (5). There was possibly a seventh, 'Charles Bernard senior' (perhaps in fact 'Charles Bernard Senior'), active in St James in the 1820s.