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Thomas McNeel

Profile & Legacies Summary

No Dates

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Resident slave-owner in Jamaica, Custos of Westmoreland and active in the recruitment of Scots to work on the estates during Apprenticeship and Emancipation, reportedly travelling for this purpose to Galloway in 1840 and having 'imported' ten Scots between 1837 and 1839.

  1. A mortgage over McNeel's estates (given as New Galloway, previously Dean Valley Dry Works, Caledonia Penn and Petersville Penn) under his marriage settlement of 1842 was the subject of the Chancery case of Turner v Barclay in 1854.

Sources

Carl Senior, 'Limerick "Slaves" for Jamaica', http://www.limerickcity.ie/media/limerick%20slaves%20for%20jmaica.pdf [accessed 20/11/2019], reprinted from Jamaica Journal Sept. 1978.

  1. Edmund F. Moore, Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Judicial Committee and the Lords of HM's Most Honourable Privy Council (1854-5) Volume IX pp. 264-286.

Further Information

Name in compensation records
Thomas M'Neel
Spouse
(2) Bathia Barclay

Associated Claims (4)

Jamaica Westmoreland 486 (Woodstock)
£2,156 5s 9d
Awardee (Executor or executrix)
Details
Jamaica Westmoreland 542 (Caledonia)
£1,520 12s 9d
Awardee
Details
Jamaica Westmoreland 592
£65 13s 2d
Awardee
Details
Jamaica Westmoreland 644
£134 15s 0d
Awardee
Details

Associated Estates (8)

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
01/05/1826 [SD] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Caledonia [1] [ Jamaica | Westmoreland ]
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
Eaton [ Jamaica | Hanover ]
1832 [EA] - → Administrator
Embden Hall [ Jamaica | Westmoreland ]
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
Lincoln [ Jamaica | Westmoreland ]
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
Petersfield [ Jamaica | Westmoreland ]
1832 [EA] - → Executor
Unknown [ Jamaica | Westmoreland ]
01/05/1825 [SD] - → Owner
Unknown [ Jamaica | Westmoreland ]
1834 [EA] - → Executor
Woodstock [ Jamaica | Westmoreland ]