House Hill

Estate Details


Associated People (10)

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
1804 [SY] - 1832 [LA] → Joint owner

Inherited as remainderman with her siblings in 1804. Christian Honeyman is the only one of nine siblings who has been traced so far.

1807 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Previous owner
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Agent
1817 [EA] - → Trustee
1823 [EA] - → Agent
1826 [EA] - → Agent
1829 [EA] - → Receiver
1832 [EA] - → Trustee
1832 [EA] - → Trustee
1834 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner

Associated Claims (1)

£2,375 3S 0D

Estate Information (25)

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1804
[Name] House Hill  
 

Bequeathed by John Kelly to the children of his sister Margaret Findlay nee Kelly, subject to annuities and other legacies.

 
PROB 11/1424/99
1807
[Name] Househill  
[Crop] Coffee, sale of slave, jobbing and cedar furnished?  
 

Belonging to the heirs of John Kelly Esq. deceased. Account filed by John McClune as overseer. "Mulatto" enslaved person sold for £180 and then manumised by the owner at the same time. Filed for 30th June 1806-30th June 1807.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 217
1808
[Name] Househill  
[Crop] Coffee and jobbing  
 

Belonging to the heirs of John Kelly Esq. deceased. Account filed by John McClune as overseer. Filed for 30th June 1807-30th June 1808.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 217
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 163(Tot)  
[Name] House Hill  
[Stock] 12  
 

Registered to heirs of John Kelly.

 
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] 154(Tot)  
[Name] House Hill  
[Stock] 12  
 

Registered to John Kelly deceased.

 
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] 144(Tot)  
[Name] House-Hill  
[Stock] 10  
 

Registered to John Kelly deceased.

 
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] 142(Tot)  
[Name] House Hill  
[Stock] 5  
 

Registered to John Kelly deceased.

 
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] 142(Tot) 74(F) 68(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Alves as attorney to William Falconer surviving trustee of John Kelly decd.

 
T71/145 408-411
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 141(Tot)  
[Name] House Hill  
[Stock] 5  
 

Registered to John Kelly deceased.

 
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] 138(Tot)  
[Name] House Hill  
 

Registered to John Kelly deceased.

 
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] 138(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Alves or Alwes as agent for the legatees and devisees under the Will of John Kelly Esq decd.

 
T71/146 234
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 138(Tot)  
[Name] House Hill  
[Stock] 3  
 

Registered to John Kelly deceased.

 
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] 141(Tot)  
[Name] House Hill  
[Stock] 8  
 

Registered to John Kelly deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1823.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 142(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Alves and John Bignall as Agent to the Heirs of John Kelly decd.

 
T71/147 192-193
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 146(Tot)  
[Name] House Hill  
[Stock] 6  
 

Registered to John Kelly deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1825.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 135(Tot)  
[Name] House Hill  
[Stock] 6  
 

Registered to John Kelly deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1826.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 140(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Nairn as Agent to the Heirs of John Kelly decd.

 
T71/148 173-174
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 145(Tot)  
[Name] House Hill  
 

Registered to heirs of John Kelly.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1827.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 134(Tot)  
[Name] House Hill  
 

Registered to heirs of John Kelly.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1828.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 136(Tot) 77(F) 65(M)  
[Name] House Hill Plantation  
 

In the possession of James Forsyth as Receiver for House Hill Plantation.

 
T71/149 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 139(Tot)  
[Name] House Hill  
[Stock] 4  
 

Registered to heirs of John Kelly.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1830
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 140(Tot)  
[Name] House Hill  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to heirs of John Kelly.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1831.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 142(Tot)  
[Name] House [?]Hill  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to heirs of John Kelly.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33STIE.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1832.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 140(Tot) 70(F) 70(M)  
[Name] Househill Plantation  
 

In the possession of James Forsyth and James Townson as Trustees for Househill Plantation.

 
T71/150 184
1839
[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 680  
 

Registered to Gilbert Halyburton.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Thoseast.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1839.