Thomas Gairdner

Attorney for Amity Hall estate in Vere, Jamaica, in 1791.

1. Will of Thomas Gairdner of Vere Jamaica [made in 1793] proved 08/01/1794. He left property to his natural daughter Jane Gairdner and to Ann and Annabella Thomas, including enslaved women. His residuary heir was his nephew Robert Gairdner of Mount Charles, Ayrshire. John Gairdner (1790-1876) and William Gairdner, who have entries in the ODNB as 'surgeon' and 'physician' respectively, were the sons of Robert Gairdner of Mount Charles, who died in 1795.

Guide to the microfilm edition of Papers relating to the Jamaica estates of the Goulburn family of Betchworth House from the Surrey History Centre introduced by Prof. Kenneth Morgan, Brunel University (Wakefield, Microform Academic Publishers, 2008); James Gairdner, ‘Gairdner, John (1790–1876)’, rev. Patrick Wallis, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10285, accessed 6 Nov 2017]; Norman Moore, ‘Gairdner, William (1793–1867)’, rev. David Souden, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10286, accessed 6 Nov 2017]

1. PROB 11/1240/50.