Cessnock 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
04/01/1805 [SD] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
1781 [EA] - 04/01/1805 [ED] → Owner
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney

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£2,249 15S 10D

Estate Information (38)

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1781
[Name] Chesnock (sp?)  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed for 31 July 1780 to 31 July 1781. No ownership details. Account filed by David Dalglish. Glasgow and Chesnock (sp?) filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 96
1787
[Name] Cessnock Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to John Wallace Esq; account filed by David Connell. Glasgow and Cessnock Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 92-93
1787
[Name] Cessnock Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, one horse  
 

Account filed by David Connell. Glasgow and Cessnock Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 63
1788
[Name] Chesnock Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to John Wallace Esquire. Account filed by David Campbell. Glasgow and Chesnock Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 306
1789
[Name] Cessnock Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, old copper  
 

Account filed by David Connell one of the attornies for the estates. Accounts filed for 01/01/1789 to 20/07/1789. Glasgow and Cessnock Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 179 [f.91]
1790
[Name] Cessnock  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of John Wallace Esquire. Account filed by James Mavite [?] as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 370
1791
[Name] Chesnock Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of John Wallace Esquire. Account filed by David Connell his attorney. Glasgow Estate and Chesnock Estate filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 438
1792
[Name] Cessnock  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of John Wallace Esquire. Account filed by David Connell. Accounts filed for 01/01/1792 to 01/08/1792. Glasgow and Cessnock filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 113
1793
[Name] Cessnock Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to John Wallace Esquire. Account filed by David Connell his attorney. Glasgow Estate and Cheenock Estate filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 310
1794
[Name] Cessnock Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Belonging to John Wallace Esq. Account filed by David Connell his attoney. Glasgow and Cessnock estates filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 147
1797
[Name] Cunock? Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, steers  
 

Belonging to John Wallace, Esq. Account given by George Murray and William Fyffe, Esqs, attornies. Account filed by Alexander Rae, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 123
1798
[Name] Cesnock Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Belonging to John Wallace Esq. Account filed by Alexander Rae as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 206
1799
[Name] Cessnock Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, copper  
 

Account filed by George Murray Esquire? attorney to John Wallace Esquire.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 202
1799
[Name] Cessnock  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Hanover as a sugar estate with a cattle mill 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 Cornwall which he compeleted in 1799.
1799
[Number of enslaved people] 157(Tot)  
[Name] Cessnock  
 

Registered in Hanover to John Wallace with 157 enslaved people in Balcarres' letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, return given at a vestry meeting 23/11/1799.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 25.
1800
[Name] Cesnock Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Under the care and direction of George Murray Esq, attorney to John Wallace Esq of the city of Glasgow. Account filed by Alexander Rea as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 56
1801
[Name] Cessnock Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by George Murray Esq as Attorney in this land for John Wallace Esq of Glasgow, North Britain.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 23
1803
[Name] Cessnock Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Under the direction of George Murray Esq of the parish Westmoreland as attorney to the proprietor in Great Britain. Account filed by Taylor Cathcart as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 38
1807
[Name] Cesnock  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Robert Wallace Esq. Under the care and direction of Robert Morice attorney for Robert Wallace Esq. Account filed by Robert Morice.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 136
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 165(Tot)  
[Name] Cessnock  
[Stock] 100  
 

Registered to Robert Wallace.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Hanov.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1810, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 169(Tot)  
[Name] Cesnock  
[Stock] 13  
 

Registered to Robert Wallace.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812co2.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 158(Tot) 79(F) 79(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Firley as attorney to Robert Wallace.

 
T71/190 731-734
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 156(Tot)  
[Name] Cessnock  
 

Registered to Robert Wallace.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 147(Tot)  
[Name] Cessnock  
 

Registered to Robert Wallace.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 139(Tot)  
[Name] Cessnock  
 

Registered to Robert Wallace.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 138(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Blyth Esquire as attorney to Robert Wallace Esquire.

 
T71/192 504-505
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 139(Tot)  
[Name] Cessnock  
 

Registered to Robert Wallace.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 136(Tot)  
[Name] Cessnock  
 

Registered to Robert Wallace.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 133(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John McCreath as attorney to Robert Wallace.

 
T71/193 44-45
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 132(Tot)  
[Name] Cessnock  
 

Registered to Robert Wallace.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 133(Tot)  
[Name] Cessnock  
[Stock] 3  
 

Registered to Robert Wallace.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 129(Tot)  
[Name] Cessnock  
 

Registered to Robert Wallace.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 139(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John McCreath as attorney to Robert Wallace Esquire.

 
T71/197 142
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 120(Tot)  
[Name] Cessnock  
 

Registered to Robert Wallace.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 128(Tot)  
[Name] Cessnock  
 

Registered to Robert Wallace.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 121(Tot)  
[Name] Cessnock Estate  
 

In the possession of John McCreath as attorney to Robert Wallace Esquire.

 
T71/199 285
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 122(Tot)  
[Name] Cessnock  
 

Registered to Robert Wallace.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Hanov.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Cessnock  
[Size] 860  
 

Registered to Robert Wallace.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Hanover.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.