Home 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
1775 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Tenant-for-life
1829 [EA] - → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
1839 [EA] - → Not known

Associated Claims (1)

£7,503 4S 8D

Estate Information (52)

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1775
[Name] Home Castle  
[Crop] sugar, rum, coffee, fustick, logwood  
 

Estate being the property and trust estate of Robert Home Gordon, a minor, under the care and direction of George Gordon Esq. as acting executor and trustee who filed the account. The estates of Home Castle, Dornock, Riverhead and Gordon Hall were listed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 48
1776
[Name] Home Castle  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Robert Home Gordon, a minor, under the care and direction of George Gordon Esq. as acting executor who filed the account. The estates of Home Castle, Riverhead Pen, Gordon Hall Pen and Hayfield Penwere listed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 98
1778
[Name] Home Castle  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Robert Home Gordon, a minor. Account filed by George Gordon.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 51
1779
[Name] Home Castle  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Robert Home Gordon, a minor and under the care and direction of John Grant Esq. as acting executor. Account filed by Peter Gordon as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 177
1779
[Name] Home Castle  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Robert Home Gordon, a minor and under the care and direction of John Grant Esq. as acting executor. Account filed by Lewis Grant, planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 190
1781
[Name] Home Castle Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

No ownership details given. Account filed by Lewis Grant, planter. Home Castle, Dornock, Riverhead & Gordon Hall planatations all filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 70-71
1782
[Name] Dornock  
[Crop] sugar, rum, coffee, pimento, fustick, cattle, horses, pasturage  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by Lewis Grant, planter. Home Castle, Dornock, Riverhead & Gordon Hall plantations all filed together. Crops listed together. Assumed to be both Dornoch and Home Castle.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 184-185
1782
[Name] Home Castle  
[Crop] sugar, rum, coffee, pimento, fustick, cattle, horses, pasturage  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by Lewis Grant, planter. Home Castle, Dornock, Riverhead & Gordon Hall plantations all filed together. Crops listed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 184-185
1783
[Name] Home Castle  
[Crop] sugar, rum, coffee, fustick, logwood  
 

Account filed by Peter Grant, planter. The estates of Home Castle, Dornock, Riverhead and Gordon Hall were listed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 157-8
1785
[Name] Home Castle Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Peter Grant, planter. Home Castle, Dornock, River Head and Golden Hall Plantations filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 70
1786
[Name] Home Castle Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Peter Grant, planter. Home Castle, Dornock, River Head and Golden Hall Plantations filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 105-106
1787
[Name] Home Castle Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed by Peter Grant, planter. Home Castle Estate, Dornock, River Head, Gordon Hall Penns all filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 124
1787
[Name] Home Castle Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, coffee  
 

Account filed by Peter Grant planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 215
1788
[Name] Home Castle Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Peter Grant planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 221-222 f.120
1789
[Name] Home Castle Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Henry Hamilton planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 307-308
1790
[Name] Home Castle Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Henry Hamilton planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 284
1791
[Name] Home Castle Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Henry Hamilton planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 288-289
1792
[Name] Home Castle  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by David Lamont, planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 104
1793
[Name] Home Castle  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Dugald McLachlan, planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 357-358
1794
[Name] Home Castle  
[Crop] sugar, rum, wharfage, hire of enslaved people  
 

Account filed by Dugald McLachlan, planter for the period 31/12/1793 to 31/12/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 218
1795
[Name] Home Castle  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Alexander Thorburn for the period 31/12/1794 to 31/12/1795.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 171
1796
[Name] Home Castle Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Robert Holme Gordon Esq. Account filed y Alexander Thorburn? Planter.

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

Belonging to Robert Home Gordon, Esq, of GB. Account filed by William Ker, planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 130
1798
[Name] Home-Castle  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Ann as a sugar estate with a cattlemill 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] Home Castle  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Robert Home Godon Esq. Account filed by William Kerr planter for the period 31/12/1797 to 31/12/1798

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 97-98
1799
[Name] Home Castle  
[Crop] sugar, rum, hire of enslaved people  
 

Property of Robert Home Gordon Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by William Ker planter for the period 31/12/1798 to 31/12/1799.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 3-4
1800
[Name] Home Castle Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Robert Home Gordon Esq. Account filed by William Kerr, planter. Accounts filed for 1799-1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 14
1801
[Name] Home Castle Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Robert Home Gordon Esq. Account filed by William Kerr, Planter Accounts filed for 1800-1801.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 106
1803
[Name] Home Castle  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Under the direction of Thomas Munro Esq attorney to Robert Home Gordon Esq. Account filed by William Ker as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 52
1807
[Name] Home Castle  
[Crop] sugar, rum, corn and hire of enslaved people  
 

Property of Robert Home Gordon Esq. Account presented by Duncan Campbell as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 149-150
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 301(Tot)  
[Name] Dornock etc  
[Stock] 694  
 

Registered to Robert Home Gordon. Assumed to include Home Castle

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Ann.htm. The 1811 Almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 303(Tot)  
[Name] Dornock etc.  
[Stock] 736  
 

Registered to Robert Home Gordon. Assumed to include Home Castle

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812mar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1810, hence the earlier transcription date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 245(Tot)  
[Name] Horne-Castle  
[Stock] 214  
 

Registered to Robert H. Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15ann.htm. The 1816 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1815, hence the earlier evolution date.
1816
[Number of enslaved people] 306(Tot)  
[Name] Home Castle  
[Stock] 280  
 

Registered to Robert H. Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1817) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1817_02.htm. The 1817 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1816, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 307(Tot)  
[Name] Home Castle  
[Stock] 244  
 

Registered to Robert H. Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al06.htm. The 1818 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1817, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 306(Tot) 162(F) 144(M)  
[Name] Home Castle  
 

In the possession of Robert Fairweather as attorney of Robert Home Gordon Esq. the owner on Home Castle.

 
T 71/43 452-460
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 299(Tot)  
[Name] Home Castle  
[Stock] 256  
 

Registered to Robert H. Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p07.htm. The 1820 Almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 304(Tot)  
[Name] Home Castle  
[Stock] 264  
 

Registered to Robert H. Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 305(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Robert Fairweather as attorney of Robert Home Gordon [27 births, 27 deaths and 1 enslaved person given over to Mary Foulks, whose life sent right in him was not purchased, as intended, at last enrolment.

 
T 71/44 258
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 305(Tot)  
[Name] Home Castle  
[Stock] 268  
 

Registered to Robert H. Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1823) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1823_04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 302(Tot) 161(F) 141(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Robert Fairweather as attorney of Robert Horne Gordon.

 
T 71/45 283-285
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 229(Tot)  
[Name] Home Castle  
[Stock] 238  
 

Registered to Robert H. Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1825) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1825_05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 306(Tot)  
[Name] Home Castle  
[Stock] 248  
 

Registered to Robert H. Gordon.

 
Jamaica Alamanc (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 314(Tot) 166(F) 148(M)  
[Name] Home Castle Pen  
 

In the possession of Robert Fairweather as attorney of Robert Home Gordon.

 
T 71/46 348-350
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 318(Tot)  
[Name] Home Castle  
[Stock] 23  
 

Registered to Robert H. Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 317(Tot)  
[Name] Home Castle  
[Stock] 22  
 

Registered to Robert H. Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 324(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Susanna Harriotte Gordon as tenant for life [registered in 1823 by Robert Fairweather as attorney of Robert Home Gordon][1829 statement made by Patrick Waugh, attorney of Mrs Gordon].

 
T 71/47 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 332(Tot)  
[Name] Home Castle  
[Stock] 26  
 

Registered to Susanns H. Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 389(Tot)  
[Name] Home Castle  
[Stock] 41  
 

Registered to Susanna H. Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 346(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Robert Fairweather as attorney to Susannah Harriotte Gordon as owner [34 births and 11 deaths].

 
T 71/49 310
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 345(Tot)  
[Name] Home Castle  
[Stock] 33  
 

Registered to Susannah H. Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Home Castle  
[Size] 1159  
 

Registered to Susannah Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.