UCL

Dr John Waugh

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1816

Biography

Owner of Lochaber estate in Manchester, Jamaica.

  1. Dr John Waugh, Lochaber, advertised that he would shortly be leaving Jamaica and invited his creditors to submit their accounts, May 1814. At the same time he advertised for sale Lochaber coffee plantation (700 acres) in Vere, 50 enslaved people to be disposed with the property.

  2. In June 1814, as of Lochaber, John Waugh advertised that he wished to purchase 40 enslaved people.

  3. Dr John Waugh was reported to have died “lately” in Manchester parish, September 1816.

  4. Miss L. J. Waugh, daughter of the late Dr John Waugh of Jamaica, married Robert Henderson, writer in Selkirk, at Melrose [Roxburghshire], 17/10/1820.


Sources

  1. Royal Gazette of Jamaica, 07/05/1814.

  2. Ibid, 25/06/1814.

  3. Ibid, 28/09/1816.

  4. Star (London), 02/11/1820.

We are grateful to Paul Hitchings for compiling this entry.

Associated Estates (2)

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
1809 [EA] - 1815 [LA] → Owner
Lochaber [ Jamaica | Manchester ]
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Previous owner
Lochaber [ Jamaica | Manchester ]