Warwick Castle Estate

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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
1770 [EA] - 1777 [LA] → Mortgage Holder

Sir Simon Clarke was shown as mortgagee-in-possession for half and owner for the other half of Warwick Castle 1770-1775, and as deceased in 1777 and beyond.

1777 [EA] - 1798 [LA] → Previous owner
1817 [EA] - 1832 [EY] → Owner
1820 [EA] - → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1826 [EA] - → Attorney
1829 [EA] - → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Attorney

Associated Claims (1)

£4,537 19S 8D

Estate Information (41)

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1768
[Name] Warwick Castle  
 

Belonging to Simon Clarke Junior Esq. Account filed by John Campbell planter and lately overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 216
1770
[Name] Warwick Castle  
 

One moiety of which Sir Simon Clarke Baronet as mortagagee in possession and the other half he owns in his own right. Account filed by Robert Donald as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 232
1771
[Name] Warwick Castle  
 

One moiety of which Sir Simon Clarke Baronet as mortagagee in possession and the other half he wons in his own right. Account filed by Robert Donald as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 233
1772
[Name] Warwick Castle  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

One moiety whereof the property of Sir Simon Clarke Baronet and the other moiety whereof he is in possession as mortagagee. Account filed by Robert Donald as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 18
1774
[Name] Warwick Castle  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

One moiety whereof the property of Sir Simon Clarke Baronet and the other moiety whereof he is in possession as mortagagee. Account filed by Robert Donald as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 270
1775
[Name] Warwick Castle  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

One moiety of which Sir Simon Clarke Baronet is in possession and the other moiety whereof he is mortgagee in possession. Account filed by Robert Donald as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 18
1777
[Name] Warwick Castle  
 

In his will dated 1777 (sworn in Jamaica that same year and proved in London in 1783), Sir Simon Clarke 7th bart. stipulated that his mortgage on a moity of Warwick Castle be immediately foreclosed, the estate put up for sale to the highest and best bidder, and that his executors buy the estate for the benefit of his sons Sir Philip Haughton Clarke 8th bart. and Sir Simon Haughton Clarke 9th bart. His nephews Simon Fleming Begg and John Begg and his niece Mary Begg were to be given legacies on the condition that they relinquish all claim to the estate as a result of the wills of their late grandfather Sir Simon Clarke and their late mother Ann Clarke.

 
PROB 11/1103/168
1777
[Name] Warwick Castle  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

One moiety whereof was the property of the late Sir Simon Clarke Baronet deceased and the other moiety whereof he was in possession as mortagagee. Account filed by Benjamin Lyon one of the guardians of the person and estate of Sir Philip Haughton Clarke, Baronet Simon Haughton Clarke and Catherine Huaghton Clarke, the children and the devisees of the said Sir Simon Clarke Baronet deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 128
1777
[Name] Warwick Castle  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

One moiety whereof was the property of Sir Simon Clarke Baronet and the other moiety whereof he is in possession as mortagagee. Account filed by Robert Donald as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 184
1778
[Name] Warwick Castle  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of the late Sir Simon Clarke Baronet deceased and the other moiety whereof was in possession of as mortgagee. Account filed by John MacDonald, planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 54
1779
[Name] Warwick Castle  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

One moiety whereof was the property of the late Sir Simon Clarke Baronet deceased and the other moiety whereof he was in possession of as mortgagee. Account filed by John MacDonald, planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 131
1780
[Name] Warwick Castle  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

One moiety whereof was the property of the late Sir Simon Clarke Baronet deceased and the other moiety whereof he was in possession of as mortgagee. Account filed by John MacDonald, planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 209-10
1781
[Name] Warwick Castle Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

One moiety is the property of the Heirs of Sir Simon Clarke Bart Deceased, the other in possession as Mortgagee. Account diled by John McDonald, planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 118
1782
[Name] Warwick Castle Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the Heirs of Sir Simon Clarke Baronet deceased the other in possession as Mortgagee. Account filed by John McDonald, planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 151
1783
[Name] Warwick Castle  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

One moiety is the property of the heirs of Sir Simon Clarke Baronet deceased and the other in possession as mortgagee. Account filed by John MacDonald, planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 118
1785
[Name] Warrwick Castle Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the heirs of Simon Clarke Baronet deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 43
1786
[Name] Warwick Castle Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the devisees of Sir Simon Clarke Bart. Deceased as to one moiety and as mortgagees in possesion of the other moiety with Sir Philip H. Clarke and Simon H. Clarke. Account filed by George Clarke Esquire of the parish of St Catherine as attorney of Sir Philip Haughton Clarke Bart.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 128-130
1787
[Name] Warwick Castle Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the heirs of Sir Simon Clarke Bart deceased; account filed by James Ruecastle, planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 95
1787
[Name] Warwick Castle Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Sir Simon Clarke Bart deceased; account filed by James Rencastle [?] and William Worrell planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 60
1788
[Name] Warwick Castle Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Sir Simon Clarket Bart. deceased. Account filed by William Worrell planter overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 210-211 f.107
1789
[Name] Warwick Castle  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Sir Simon Clarke Bart. deceased. Account filed by William Morrell as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 325 f.160
1790
[Name] Warwick Castle  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Sir Simon Clarke Bart. deceased. Account filed by William Worrell as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 21-22
1791
[Name] Warwick Castle  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Sir Simon Clarke Bart. deceased. Account filed by William Worrell as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 364
1792
[Name] Warwick Castle Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Sir Simon Clark Bart. deceased. Account filed by William Worrell as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 166
1793
[Name] Warwick Castle  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Property of the heirs of Sir Simon Clarke Bart deceased. Account filed by William Worall.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 28
1794
[Name] Warwick Castle  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the heirs of Sir Simon Clarke Bart deceased. Account filed by William Worall.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 194
1795
[Name] Warwick Castle  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Sir Philip Haughton Clarke Bart and Simon Haughton Clarke Esq. Account filed by John Macleod as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 208-209
1796
[Name] Warwick Castle Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum,meagre steers  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Sir Simon Clark, Bt, dec. Account filed by Joseph Stewart.

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

Belonging to the heirs of Sir Simon Clarke, Bt, dec. Account filed by Joseph Stewart, status not given.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 132
1798
[Name] Warwick-Castle  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Mary as a sugar estate with a watermill 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 Middlesex which he compeleted in 1798.
1798
[Name] Warwick Castle  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Sir Simon Clarke Bart deceased. Account filed by Joseph Stewart for the period 01/01/1798 to 01/10/1798 and by Thomas Mackintosh for the period 01/10/1798 to 31/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 96-97
1799
[Name] Warwick Castle  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by William Hay.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 106-107
1800
[Name] Warwick Castle Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Under the direction of James Colquhoun Grant Esq attorney to Sir Simon H Clarke Warwick (?). Account filed by James Gibb as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 16
1801
[Name] Warwick Castle Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Under the direction of James Colquhoun Grant (?) Esq, Attorney to Sir Simon Haughton Clarke Bart. Account filed by James Gibb as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 193
1803
[Name] Warwick Castle  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Sir Simon Haughton Clarke Bart of Great Britain. Account filed by James Gibb as overseer for the period 01/01/1803 to 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 13
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 311(Tot) 148(F) 163(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Edward M Burrowes, agent to Mrs P E Burrowes. [Possibly this is a mistake when the original forms were transcribed into the slave registers for shipment to London c. 1817. This is the entry as given in T71/33. The Burrowes are more consistent with the smaller Rock Spring in St Mary (q.v.).]

 
T 71/33 374-386
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 347(Tot) 176(F) 171(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

John Brands, attorney to Sir Simon Haughton Clarke Baronet [purchase and births]. Previously registered by David Bagolars[?] as attorney of Sir Simon Haughton Clarke Baronet (163 men and 148 women).

 
T 71/34 23v-25
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 330(Tot) 172(F) 158(M)  
[Name] Warwick Castle  
 

Robert Fairweather, attorney to Sir Simon H Clarke Baronet [purchase and births].

 
T 71/35 142-144
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 315(Tot) 168(F) 147(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

John Stewart, attorney of Sir Simon H Clarke Baronet.

 
T 71/36 336-338
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 290(Tot) 156(F) 134(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Patrick Waugh, attorney of Sir Simon H Clarke Baronet [decrease by deaths].

 
T 71/37 [unpaginated]
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 268(Tot) 149(F) 119(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Alexander Forsyth, attorney of Sir Simon Haughton Clarke [decrease by deaths].

 
T 71/41 177