Gibraltar Estate

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
- 1831 [EY] → Owner
1770 [EA] - 1798 [EY] → Owner
1809 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Owner
1820 [EA] - → Attorney
1820 [EA] - → Other

Previous owner of enslaved people bought by this estate.

1829 [EA] - → Attorney
1829 [EA] - → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Not known

In principle this could be either Roger Kynaston or Roger Kynaston jun., but the latter would have been very young (aged 23 or so) to have been active in a Jamaican property of this scale in 1829.

1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Receiver
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Receiver

Associated Claims (1)

£6,724 7S 9D

Estate Information (40)

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1770
[Name] Gibraltar  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

Belonging to Nathaniel Bayley Esq. Account filed by William Williams, Rector of the parish of St. Mary as clerk and chief manager to Nathaniel Bayley.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 46
1771
[Name] Gibraltar  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

Belonging to Nathaniel Bayley Esq. Account filed by Samuel Buckmaster as one of the attorneys to Nathaniel Bayley.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 87
1772
[Name] Gibraltar  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

Belonging to Nathaniel Bayley Esq. Account filed by Samuel Buckmaster as one of the attorneys to Nathaniel Bayley.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 87
1773
[Name] Gibraltar  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

Belonging to Nathaniel Bayley Esq. Account filed by Samuel Buckmaster as one of the attorneys to Nathaniel Bayley.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 88
1775
[Name] Gibraltar  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

Belonging to Nathaniel Bayley Esq. Account filed by Ebeneezer Hanna as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 97
1776
[Name] Gibraltar  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

Belonging to Nathaniel Bayley Esq. Account filed by William Torbett as clerk.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 97
1777
[Name] Gibraltar  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

Belonging to Nathaniel Bayley Esq. Account filed by Jasper Muckle as bookeeper.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 97
1778
[Name] Gibraltar  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

Belonging to Nathaniel Bayley Esq. Account filed by Jasper Muckle as bookeeper.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 98
1781
[Name] Gibraltar  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Nathaniel Bayley Esq. Account filed by Archibald Fergie as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 151
1783
[Name] Gibralter  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Nathaniel Bayley Esq. Account filed by Edmund Smith as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 19
1784
[Name] Gibralter  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Nathaniel Bayley Esq. Account filed by John Dawson.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 204
1785
[Name] Gibralter  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Nathaniel Bayley Esq. Account filed by John Dawson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 204
1786
[Name] Gibralter  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Nathaniel Bayly Esq under the direction of John Gutch, William Clark and William Ross his attornies; account filed by John Warren as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 169
1798
[Name] Gibraltar  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St George as a sugar estate with a cattle mill and 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] Gibraltar  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Edward Williams as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 37
1800
[Name] Gibraltar  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, labour hire  
 

Account filed by Edward Williams as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 157-158
1801
[Name] Gibraltar Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Owner details not recorded. Account filed by Edward Williams as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 158
1803
[Name] Gibraltar  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, rents  
 

Account filed by Edward Jones as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 127
1807
[Name] Gibraltar  
[Crop] sugar, rum, beef, house rental, arrearage and a militia fine  
 

Account filed by John Welby as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 82
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 250(Tot)  
[Name] Gibraltar  
[Stock] 211  
 

Registered to Wentworth Bayley.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11George.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 235(Tot)  
[Name] Gibraltar  
[Stock] 56  
 

Registered to Wentworth Bayley.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812and.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 250(Tot)  
[Name] Gibraltar  
[Stock] 206  
 

Registered to Wentworth Bayly.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15geor.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 422(Tot)  
[Name] Gibraltar  
[Stock] 222  
 

Registered to Wentworth Bayly.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 421(Tot) 200(F) 221(M)  
[Name] Gibraltar Estate  
 

In the possession of Wentworth Bayly as Owner of Gibraltar Estate.

 
T71/158 274
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 454(Tot)  
[Name] Gibraltar  
[Stock] 210  
 

Registered to Wentworth Bayly.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 593(Tot)  
[Name] Gibraltar  
[Stock] 200  
 

Registered to Wentworth Bayly.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 559(Tot)  
[Name] Gibraltar Estate  
 

In the possession of Benjamin Crossley as Attorney to Wentworth Bayly for Gibraltar Estate. Increase of 148 enslaved people by purchase. 68 enslaved people reigstered last by John Shand and Philip Jaquet as Receivers in Saint George, 80 enslaved people registered last in St George by Henry Bond as attorney to William Griffiths. Decrease of 7 enslaved people by sale (no buyers given).

 
T71/159 364
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 631(Tot)  
[Name] Gibraltar  
[Stock] 110  
 

Registered to Wentworth Bayly.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 576(Tot)  
[Name] Gibraltar  
[Stock] 150  
 

Registered to Wentworth Bayly.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24geor.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 511(Tot) 257(F) 254(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Wentworth Bayly Esq as Owner.

 
T71/160 242
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 500(Tot)  
[Name] Gibraltar  
[Stock] 162  
 

Registered to Wentworth Bayly.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 486(Tot)  
[Name] Gibraltar Estate  
 

In the possession of Wentworth Bayly as Receiver for Gibraltar Estate.

 
T71/161 123
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 495(Tot)  
[Name] Gibraltar  
[Stock] 150  
 

Registered to Wentworth Bayly.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 460(Tot)  
[Name] Gibraltar  
[Stock] 12  
 

Registered to Roger Kynaster.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29portgeorg.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 444(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Adam Gray and Anthony Damis Esquires as Attorneys to Roger Kynaston Esquire. Last return by Wentworth Bayly as Receiver to George Reid.

 
T71/162 164
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 437(Tot)  
[Name] Gibraltar  
[Stock] 14  
 

Registered to Roger Kynaster.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831geor.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 429(Tot)  
[Name] Gibraltar  
[Stock] 18  
 

Registered to Roger Kynaston.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32geor.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 413(Tot)  
[Name] Gibraltar  
[Stock] 19  
 

Registered to Roger Kynaston.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33George.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 413(Tot) 218(F) 195(M)  
[Name] Gibraltar Estate  
 

In the possession of Adam Gray and Anthony Davis Esquires as Receivers for Gibraltar Estate.

 
T71/163 34
1839
[Name] Gibraltar  
[Size] 2000  
 

Registered to James Townson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40George.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.