Jamaica St James 397A-E (Hampden Estate)

Parliamentary Papers p. 72.

397A: £2958 0s 0d went to Archibald Stirling.  

397B-E: £246 10s 0d went to each of Marion Stirling; Angus Mackellar & his wife; A Stirling & Dundas; A. Stirling & Mackellar.

T71/873: claim from Archibald Stirling and the heirs of Robert Stirling, of Scotland, as owner-in-fee. See Trelawney claim no. 553.

Jamaica Almanac (1828): Hampden estate registered to Archibald Stirling and the heirs of Robert Stirling.

J.H. Proctor 'Scottish Missionaries & Jamaican slaveholders' Slavery & Abolition Vol. 25, No. 1, April 2004, pp. 51-70: p. 51 Archibald Stirling was brother of a director of Scottish Missionary Society (William) who himself owned slaves on Content [see St James claim no. 176]. Rev. William Blyth was sent out to Jamaica in 1824 in response to Archibald Stirling's request.

For the Hampden estate of Robert Stirling see Angela McCarthy, 'A global clan: scottish migrant networks and identities since the 18thC' p. 58.

'Old country houses of old Glasgow merchants' LXIII Kenmure: Archibald Stirling was a West India merchant, 1769-1847, brother of  Charles (d. 1830) and James (1831).

Jamaica Almanac (1808): Archibald Stirling was director of Close Harbour Company, Montego Bay.