William Helyar

???? - 1697


Biography

Eldest son from a gentry family from East Coker in Somerset, William Heylar was a Colonel in the Cavalier army in the English civil war. He invested jointly with his brother Cary in establishing Bybrook estate in Jamaica in 1669. William agreed to ship supplies and labour from England while Cary developed the land. They initially planned to grow cacao but following a blight in 1670-1671 they turned their attention to sugar cultivation.


Sources

J. Harry Bennett (1964). 'Cary Helyar, merchant and planter of seventeenth-century Jamaica', William and Mary Quarterly, 21(2) 53-76.


Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish
Spouse
Married but no further details
Children
William, John

Associated Estates (2)

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
1669 [EA] - 15/08/1673 [ED] → Joint owner
15/08/1673 [SD] - 1697 [EY] → Owner

Relationships (3)

Brothers
Other relatives
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Father → Son

Addresses (1)

East Coker, Somerset, South-west England, England