Airy Castle

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Associated People (6)

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
1823 [SY] - 1823 [EY] → Seller

William Fraser Tytler and his wife Margaret Cussans sold 51 enslaved people to Priscilla Franks, probably from Airy Castle.

1790 [EA] - 1791 [LA] → Owner
1792 [EA] - 1794 [LA] → Previous owner
1794 [EA] - 1815 [LA] → Not known

Shown as acting trustee in 1794 and then 'in the possession of' or 'registered to' George Grant in an unidentified capacity

1817 [EA] - 1819 [LA] → Owner
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner

Associated Claims (2)

£35 5S 6D
£1,541 2S 7D

Estate Information (27)

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1789
[Name] Airy Castle Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by William Donaldson.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 443 f.219
1790
[Name] Airy Castle Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of James Murray Esquire. Account filed by John White as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 57-58 [f.23]
1791
[Name] Airy Castle Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of James Murray Esquire. Account filed by John White as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 130
1792
[Name] Airy Castle Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of heirs of James Murray Esquire deceased. Account filed by John White as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 103
1793
[Name] Airy Castle Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, one cow  
 

Property of the heirs of James Murray Esq deceased. Account filed by John White as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1793.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 56
1794
[Name] Airy Castle Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the heirs of James Murray Esq deceased in the possession of James Renny Esq acting attorney of George Grant Esq the acting trustee for the deceased. Account filed by Edward Barton.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 213
1795
[Name] Airy Castle Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of George Grant Esq. Account filed by Thomas Urquhart as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 213-214
1796
[Name] Airy Castle Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account given by George Grant Esq. Account filed by Thomas Urquhart, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Airy Castle Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Thomas Urquhart, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 105
1798
[Name] Airy Castle Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of George Grant Esq. Account filed by Thomas Urquhart as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 225
1798
[Name] Airy Castle  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Thomas-in-the-East as a sugar estate with a windmill in James Robertson's 1804 map of Jamaica.

 
To the King's most excellent Majesty, this map of the island of Jamaica, constructed from actual surveys. . . (London, J. Robertson, 1804), based on Robertson's survey of the county of Surrey which he compeleted in 1798.
1799
[Name] Airy Castle Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of George Grant Esq. Account filed by Thomas Urquhart as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 27-28
1800
[Name] Airy Castle Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, stock  
 

In the possession of George Grant Esq. Account filed by Thomas Urquhart as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 106-107
1801
[Name] Airy Castle Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Under the care and direction of Thomas Urquhart Accounts filed for 1800-1801.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 120
1803
[Name] Airy Castle  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Thomas Urquhart as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 50-51
1804
[Name] Airy Castle Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Owner not given. Account filed in the name of Alexander Keith, overseer to said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 141
1807
[Name] Airy Castle  
[Crop] sugar, rum and tin  
 

In the possession of George Grant Esq. Account filed by Alexander McGregor as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 34
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 102(Tot)  
[Name] Airy Castle  
[Stock] 35  
 

Registered to George Grant.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11STIE.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for 1810.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 100(Tot)  
[Name] Airy Castle  
 

Registered to George Grant.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812por.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1811.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 121(Tot)  
[Name] Airy-Castle  
[Stock] 43  
 

Registered to George Grant.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1815.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 123(Tot)  
[Name] Airy Castle  
[Stock] 43  
 

Registered to George Grant.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al09.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1817.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 123(Tot) 63(F) 60(M)  
[Name] Airy Castle Estate  
 

In the possession of John Shaw as attorney to George Grant Esq owner of Airy Castle Estate.

 
T71/145 308-311
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 121(Tot)  
[Name] Airy Castle  
[Stock] 37  
 

Registered to George Grant.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1819.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 119(Tot)  
[Name] Airy Castle  
[Stock] 24  
 

Registered to George Grant.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1820.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 121(Tot)  
[Name] Airy Castle Estate  
 

In the possession of John Junor as attorney to George Grant Esq owner of Airy Castle Estate.

 
T71/146 157-158
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 119(Tot)  
[Name] Airy Castle  
[Stock] 57  
 

Registered to George Grant.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1821.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 7(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Charles Scott as attorney to the Heirs of George Grant decd. All listed as "By sale" but no vendor's details..

 
T71/147 143-146