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Items 1 and 2 the court in which these wills were probated is not identified, but they were recorded in the Supreme Court.
Items 3 and 4 were transmitted to the Records Office in Spanish Town with notes indicating: "List of all wills from the District Courts recorded in the Office of the Supreme Court of Judicature since the coming into operation of the Judicature Law 1879 (Law 24 of 1879)."
Item 5 contained a letter stating that the author was sending: "Six original Wills specified in the enclosed Schedule A, on which probate ... has been granted by the Supreme Court .... I also send herewith original wills specified in Schedule B which have been proved and recorded in the several District Courts, and also recorded in this Office." The six wills probated in the Supreme Court were for Sarah Mackay, Charles Davis, Ephraim Athias, George T. Farquharson, James G. Doorley, Theophilus Messop. All other wills in item 5 were District Court Wills.
Format for each item:
NAME,
PARISH,
OCCUPATION OR STATUS,
[DATE OF DEATH if stated,]
YEAR PROBATE RECORDED,
ITEM [abbreviated "It"], SEQUENCE #
Date format: month/day/year
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Laselve, Mary, Kingston, widow, died 6/11/1881. Probate 1882. It 5 #44
Laing, Malcolm, Esquire, Kingston, 1781. It 1 #23
Lampart, Elizabeth, Kingston, single woman, 1847. It 2 #110
Lancett, Elizabeth, Port Royal, a free black woman, 1800. It 2 #2
Langley, Stephen, Kingston, master carpenter, 1883. It 1 #34
Latour, Sarah, Kingston, widow, 1776. It 1 #16
Lawrence, John Fisher, St. Andrew, 1880. It 3 #12
Lawson, Octavus, Esquire, St. James, 1857. It 2 #126
Lazarus, Samuel, Falmouth, Trelawny, storekeeper, 1882. It 5 #45
Lee, William Rastrick, Kingston, solicitor, husband of Sophia Isabella Lee, 1880. It 3 #13
Leishman, William, Westmoreland. It 2 #102
Legore, Ann, Kingston, widow, died 2/14/1882. Probate 1882. It 5 #46
Levy, Henry, Esquire, St. Andrew, died 3/30/? [year torn. Will dated 1863]. Probate 1881. It 4 #26
Lewis, Edward Whitehouse, St. Andrew, gentleman, 1883. It 3 #52
Lewis, Elizabeth, Kingston, widow, 1796. It 1 #69
Lewis, Mary Ann, St. Elizabeth, spinster, 1806. It 2 #23
Lindsay, Robert, St. Andrew, planter, died 4/28/1881. Probate 1882. It 5 #47
Liston, Emma Justina, Kingston, died 3/30/1881. Probate 1881. It 4 #25
Lott, Judith, St. Catherine, formerly called Thisbe, a free Negro woman. It 1 #12
Lucas, Susan, Kingston, widow, died 10/18/1880. Probate recorded 1881. It 4 #27
Latour, Sarah, Kingston, widow, 1776. It 1 #16
M
Mackay, Alexander, St. Thomas in the East, planter, 1858. It 2 #144
Mackay, Milborough Merchant, widow of Hector Mackay, St. Thomas in the Vale, 1858. It 2 #143
Mackay, Sarah Augusta Gould, Greenwich Park, St. Andrew, spinster. Probate 1882 in Supreme Court. It 5 #48
Mackintosh, Allan Donald, planter, Mammee Bay, St. Ann, died 8/20/1878. Probate 1880. It 3 #55
Magill, William, Kingston, gentleman, died 1/14/1882. Probate 1882. It 5 #49
Mahonie, John, St. Catherine, 1882. It 5 #50
Malabre, Arnold Louis, Kingston, merchant, 1880. It 3 #56
Manby, Aaron, Kingston, coachmaker, 1776. It 1 #15
Margetson, Gilbert, 1815. It 2 #64
Markham, William, Kingston, mariner belonging to the Schooner New Hope', 1794. It 1 #53
March, Charles, St. Dorothy, 1790. Back cover It 1 #32. Rest of torn will It 2 #18
Marshall, Elizabeth, St. Andrew, widow, 1858. It 2 #140
Martin, Abraham William, Kingston, gentleman, died 9/24/1881. Probate 1882. It 5 #51
Martin, Lewis, St. James, died 5/6/1882. Probate 1882. It 3 #60
Masterman, John, River Head, St. Thomas in the Vale, penkeeper, 1881. It 4 #28
Matham, George Montgomery, Captain in the 1st Battalion of the 6th[?] or Royal American Regiment of Foot, now resident in Port Royal, Esquire, 1777. It 1 #17
Matthews, Etherington Thomas, Esquire, St. Catherine, 1794. It 1 #49
Matthews, William Alexander, Kingston, tailor, 1798. It 1 #70
Maxwell, Ann, St. James, spinster, died 8/5/1860. Probate 1880. It 3 #58
Mayne, William Townson, Esq., Perth near Mandeville in Manchester, planter, died at Hillsborough, Mannamead near Plymouth in England 12/7/1880. Probate recorded in Jamaica 1882. It 2 #111, It 5 #52.
McBean, William, St. Thomas in the Vale, 1839. It 2 #92
McCalla, George Watt, Spanish Town, St. Catherine, dispenser, died 10/24/1880. Probate 1881. It 4 #29
McDaniel, Ruth Francis, Look Out Pen, Manchester, widow, died 9/7/1877. Probate 1880. It 3 #53
McDonnell, Joseph, Esquire, St. Ann, 1858. It 2 #142
McDougal, Duncan, Kingston, cabinet maker, 1858. It 2 #139
McGrath, George, Kingston, 1874. It 2 #158
McGregor, George, Mt. Zion, St. Ann, 1882. It 5 #53
McGregor, Robert, Dudley Cottage, Clarendon, planter, died 1/29/1879. Probate 1880. It 3 #54
McIntyre, James, Clarendon, Shop keeper, 1803. It 2 #14
McKenzie, Duncan, St. Thomas in the East, planter, 1801. It 2 #6
McKenzie, John, St. Ann, house mason, 1882. It 5 #54
McLaren, Caesar, St. Andrew, laborer, died 12/27/1880. Probate 1881. It 4 #30
McLachlan, Donald, St. Elizabeth, mason. It 1 #18
McLaughlan, Donald, Westmoreland, mason, 1778. It 1 #18
McLaughlin, John, St. Mary, 1794. It 1 #50
McLean, George Richard, Queen Western, St. Thomas, died 7/2/1880. Probate 1881. It 4 #31
McLelan, Jane Godwin, Hanover, wife of John McLelan, Esquire, 1789. It 1 #31
McNamarrah, Joseph, Rosehill settlement, St. Mary, planter, died 4/26/1881. Probate recorded 1882. It 5 #55
McNaughton, Thomas, [St. Thomas in the East?] 1803. It 2 #19
McNeil, James, Clarendon, 1801. It 2 #7
McRobert, Rebecca, Portland, widow, 1790. It 1 #36
McTavish, John, St. Thomas in the East, written in 1772. It 1 #6
Melhado, Hannah, nee Sanguinetti, St. Jago de la Vega (Spanish Town), St. Catherine, widow, died 6/11/1880. Probate 1880. It 3 #45
Merchant, John, Manchester?, 1847. It 2 #112
Miles, Tabitha, St. Ann, free black woman, 1813. It 2 #62
Miller, Margaret, St. Elizabeth, widow, 1881. It 4 #32
Miller, Thomas, St. Ann, 1847. It 2 #113
Mill, Ann, Kingston, gentlewoman, wife of William Mill, merchant, 1858. It 2 #145
Milne, William, St. Ann, 1839. It 2 #93
Mingey, Letitia, Kingston, gentlewoman, died 10/30/1880. Probate recorded 1881. It 4 #33
Miot, Joseph, Port au Prince, Haiti. [French and English versions]. Probate recorded in Jamaica 1882. It 5 #56
Mockler, Edward, 22 Fort Street, Montego Bay, St. James, planter, died 10/3/1879. Probate 1880. It 3 #59
Moncrieffe, Henrietta, Hopewell Pen, St. Ann, widow, 1880. It 3 #14
Monforte, Deborah, Kingston, widow, 1799. It 1 #74
Monkhouse, Ann, St. Ann, 1858. It 2 #141
Morais, Moses, Kingston, shop keeper, 1813. It 2 #61
Moreno, Marian, Kingston, widow, died 2/24/1877. Probate recorded 1882. It 5 #57
Morgan, Tudor, Campden Place, parish of Saint Pancreas, Middlesex, England, painter and glazier. It 1 #58
Morris, William the younger, St. Catherine, gentleman, 1779. It 1 #21
Mossop, Theophilus, Montego Bay, St. James. Probate 1882 Supreme Court. It 5 #58
Murdoch, Patrick, Vere, bricklayer, 1775. It 1 #14
Murphy, James, St. Catherine, free black man, 1813. It 2 #63
Murray, Daniel, Trelawny, blacksmith, 1796. It 1 #61
Murray, Eleanor, St. Thomas in the East, widow, 1839. It 2 #94
Myrie, Thomas Robinson, St. James, died 8/26/1880. Probate 1881. It 4 #34
N
Nairne, Colin, Kingston, gentleman, Clerk in Her Majesty's Ordnance Department, died 4/17/1881. Probate 1881. It 4 #35
Neilson, Jane Eliza, St. Mary, widow, 1871. It 4 #36
Nibbs, George Marshall, Kingston, carpenter, died 3/15/1881. Probate recorded 1882. It 5 #59
Noyes, Jane, St. Thomas, 1881. It 4 #37
Nugent, John, Kingston, 1835. It 2 #87
Nunes, Esther Cardozo, Kingston, widow, 1808. It 2 #26
O
O'Brien, Jemima, Kingston, 1782. It 2 #39
O'Callaghan, Simon, Esquire, Mount Pleasant, St. Catherine, 1874. It 2 #159
O'Connor, Susannah, Trelawny, widow, 1802. It 2 #51
Ogborn, Joseph Wilkins, Esquire, St. Catherine, 1809. (Order to swear witnesses to will of Joseph Wilkins Ogborn follows is between #53 and #54) It 2 #55
Ogborne, Petronella Elizabeth, St. Catherine, widow, 1805. It 2 #53
O'Gilvy, David Graham Drummond, the Right Honourable, Earl of Airlie. Probate in Scotland. Recorded in Jamaica 1882. It 5 #60
O'Hagan, John Boyd, Trelawny, millwright, 1786. It 2 #41
O'Hara, John, St. David, 1797. It 2 #46
Orgill, Frances, Kingston, widow, 1778. It 2 #38
Orr, William. [torn will] It 2 #33
Osborne, George, Vere, planter, 1775. It 2 #37
Osborne, James, Manchester, laborer, 1860. [torn] It 2 #146
Otaway, John, Kingston, gentleman, 1802. It 2 #50
Oughton, Rev. Samuel, formerly of Jamaica but now of Brighton in England. Probated in Leeds, England, 1882. It 5 #14
Ousby, Thomas, St. Dorothy, gentleman, 1838. It 2 #90
P
Palmer, John Rose, Esquire, town Pembroke, County of Pembroke, South Wales, 1857. It 2 #125
Park, Adam, Green Hill, St. Ann, yeoman, 1880. It 3 #62
Park, John, Vere, planter, 1802. It 2 #11
Parnther, John, Hanover, 1792. It 1 #42
Paterson, Duncan David, Esquire, St. Thomas in the East, 1828. It 2 #77
Patrick, Catherine, St. Mary, widow, 1802. It 2 #12
Patterson, Donald, Clarendon, 1836. It 2 #82
Patton, Margaret, St. Thomas in the East, gentlewoman, 1850. It 2 #118
Penny [or Denny], Robert, St. Elizabeth, practitioner of physic and surgery, 1770. It 1 #7
Pereira, Jacob Fernandes, [brother of David and Raphael], Kingston, 1797. It 1 #66
Perrotin, Louis Jean Baptiste, Esquire, Kingston, a native of the parish of Saint Philibert in the town of Noirmoutier in Poitou in France, 1838. It 2 #96
Philips, Mrs. Elizabeth, St. Ann, 1796. It 1 #56
Philips, Jonathan, Brunswick', Pedro, St. Ann, 1832. It 2 #80
Phillips, Elizabeth, Hanover, 1844. It 2 #105
Phillips, John, Kingston, shipwright, 1844. It 2 #73
Phipps, John, Clarendon, millwright, 1810. It 2 #29
Pierce, William Edward, B.A. Cambridge, Clerk in Holy Orders at this time mission priest of the Upper Essequibo, British Guiana. Probated British Guiana. Recorded in Jamaica 1882. It 5 #61
Pinnock, Hon. Philip, St. Catherine. James Pinnock renounces his executorship, 1778. It 1 #19.
Pinnock, Philip, St. Catherine, gentleman, 1843. It 2 #104
Piper, John, St. Mary, merchant, 1801. It 2 #9
Plummer, Eliza, 1842. It 2 #98
Plunkett, Dominick James, St. Ann, planter, 1825. It 2 #76
Porter, Robert, Westmoreland, carpenter, written 1802. It 2 #15
Porter, William Henry, Kingston, gentleman, 1837. It 2 #88
Potts, Elizabeth, Kingston, widow, 1881. It 4 #38
Potts, John, St. James, planter, 1794. It 1 #51
Potts, Mary, Kingston, a free mulatto woman, 1792. It 1 #45
Powell, Thomas, St. Elizabeth, 1810. It 2 #30
Price, Sarah, 1808. [first page missing] It 2 #25
R
Rankin, Johanna Banfield, Queen Western, St. Thomas, died 1881. Probate 1881. It 4 #39
Reid, Mariah/Maria, St. Ann, gentlewoman, 1881. It 4 #40
Reid, Sophia Elizabeth, St. James, died 3/9/1881. Probate 1881. It 4 #41
Renwick, Catherine Waite, Montego Bay, St. James, spinster, gentlewoman, died 10/21/1880. Probate 1881. It 4 #42
Robert, Rebecca, Portland, 1793. It 1 #33
Robinson, William, Port Royal, parish of Kingston, gentleman, died 12/8/1880. Probate 1881. It 4 #43
Rose, Hamilton, Ayr, Scotland, and Kingston, 1880. It 3 #15
Russell, James, Vere, almoner, died 7/9/1880. Probate recorded 1882. It 5 #63
Russell, Thomas, Chapelton, Clarendon, died 2/14/1880. Probate 1880. It 3 #63
Rutherford, William James Lonsley, Kingston, gentleman, died 11/24/1880. Probated 1881. It 3 #64
S
Sadler, John, St. Catherine, 1861. It 2 #147
Sampson, David, Manchester, storekeeper, 1884. It 4 #45
Samson, Daniel Eleason, husband of Sarah Samson, 1863. It 2 #148
Samuel, Hannah, widow of Henry Solomon Samuel, Esquire, Kingston, died 6/14/1880. Probate 1881. It 4 #44
Sanches, William, St. Catherine, a free black man, cabinet maker, 1834. It 2 #81
Sandford, Thomas, Port Royal, 1798. It 1 #71
Sandon, William, St. John, planter, 1801. It 2 #7
Satchell, Alexander, St. Christopher district, Golden Spring P.O., St. Andrew, settler, planter, died 9/5/1880. Probate 1881. It 4 #46
Saulsbury [or Saulsberry], Elizabeth, St. Catherine, gentlewoman, 1802. It 2 #13
Savage, Arthur, formerly of Orchard Street Portman Square, gentleman, but lately of Port Royal, 1837. It 2 #89
Scobie, John McKay, St. George, planter, 1803. Middle page, It 2 #3. Front section It 2 #16.
Scott, Charles, Lucky Valley, St. Andrew, died 2/28/1881. Probate 1881. It 3 #65
Scott, James, St. James, planter, (with brothers in Scotland) 1794. It 1 #52
Scott, John, St. James, planter, 1766. It 1 #10
Scott, Judith Rachael, Vere, 1877. It 2 #162
Scott, Sarah Davis, St. Ann, a woman of color, 1858. It 2 #135
Scott, William, Clarendon, planter, 1812. It 2 #32
Sharp, Ann, wife of William Henry Richard Sharp, St. Thomas in the Vale, 1810. It 2 #27
Sharp, George Samuel, St. Ann, 1842. It 2 #99
Sharpe, Ann, Montego Bay, St. James, widow, died 6/26/1880. Probate 1880. It 3 #66
Shaw, Mary, Falmouth, Trelawny, gentlewoman, spinster, died 8/1/1876. Probated 1880. It 3 #16
Shearerd, Thomas, Esquire, Kingston, 1810 [left relatives in Scotland]. It 2 #28
Sherridan, Alexander, St. Dorothy, planter, 1799. It 1 #72
Shippen, Jane, St. Catherine, free woman of color, 1820. It 2 #71
Shirroul, Francis, St. James, planter, 1769. It 1 #11
Simms, Eliza, St. Catherine, spinster, died 7/12/1880. Probate 1881 It 4 #47
Simpson, Ann Moore, St. Catherine, a free mulatto woman, 1791. It 1 #38
Sinclair, Edward, St. Elizabeth, planter, 1793. It 1 #46
Skinner, Philip Augustus, 33 John's Lane, Kingston, died 4/24/1878 or 1879. Probate 1880. It 3 #67
Slack, Joseph, Trelawny, 1797. It 1 #63
Slater, Anthony, St. Andrew, planter, 1822. It 2 #74
Small, George, Natts River Plantation, St. Thomas in the East, 1791. It 1 #37
Smallhorn, John, the elder, St. Ann, planter, died 12/14/1880. Probate 1881. It 4 #48
Smith, Charles Henry, Brown's Town, St. Ann, 1881. It 4 #49
Smith, Esther, St. Elizabeth, spinster, 1842. It 2 #100
Smith, James, St. Mary, distiller, 1779. Will torn. Declaration by Henry Brown, junior, millwright of St. George. It 1 #22
Smith, James, gentleman, 1858. It 2 #129
Smith, John Taylor, Vere, 1782. It 1 #24
Smith, Louisa, Spanish Town, St. Catherine, widow, 1872. It 2 #59
Smith, Mary Ann, Kingston, gentlewoman, 1860. It 3 #68
Smith, Nevill, Vere, planter, 1795. It 1 #55
Smith, Philip Anstie, Chief Justice of the colony of the Gold Coast but at present residing at No. 32 Ladbroke Grove, Notting Hill, England. Probated in England. Left property known as Bamboo in Hanover. Recorded in Jamaica 1881. It 4 #50
Smith, Sarah, St. Thomas in the Vale, spinster, 1864. It 2 #150
Smith, Sophia, Kingston, widow, 1823. It 2 #75
Soley, John, Princess Garden, St. Ann, carpenter, died 10/11/1879. Probate recorded 1880. It 3 #69
Somervill, Francis, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, merchant, 1794. It 1 #62
Soulette, Marie, Kingston, spinster, died 11/17/1880. Probate 1881. It 4 #51
Spalding, Hinton, the Honorable, Kingston, Doctor of Medicine, 1854. It 2 #122
Spence, Sarah, Hanover, 1799. It 1 #63
Spencer, Caleb, St. Elizabeth, 1880. It 3 #6
Spencer, Sarah, Kingston, a free Negro woman, 1799. It 1 #76
Stack, William Haly, Kingston, 1812. It 2 #31
Starks/Starkes, Clara, Kingston, widow, 1882. It 5 #64
Starks, Edward, Kingston, draper, 1882. It 5 #66
Stedman, Caroline, Kingston, gentlewoman, 1882. It 5 #65
Stephens, Thomas William, St. Catherine, gentleman, 1800. It 2 #4
Steinson, Charlotte Stuart, Kingston, 1797. It 1 #67
Stewart, Alexander, Esquire, Portland, 1858. It 2 #136
Stewart, Samuel, Hanover, carpenter, 1846. It 2 #83
Stewart, William, Clarendon, 1788. It 1 #26
Stewart, William, Holland Hill, Trelawny, planter, 1880. It 3 #17
Stone, Ann, St. Catherine, widow, 1818. It 2 #70
Stone, Margaret, Westmoreland, widow, 1803. It 2 #17
Stone, Samuel, Esquire, captain in the 1st Battalion of Royals in His Majesty's Service, 1793. It 1 #47
Strahan, Sarah Hanson, St. Catherine, spinster, 1799. It 1 #75
Strupar, Frances Massey, Port Royal, widow, 1847. It 2 #115
Summers, Elizabeth Ann, Clarendon, a free woman, 1806. It 2 #24
Summers, Thomas, Trelawny, planter, 1793. It 1 #43
Swinhoe, Samuel, Clarendon, planter, 1773. It 1 #13
Swithinbank, John, St. Ann, merchant, 1826. It 2 #79
Sylvester, John. Torn. Written 1788. It 1 #30
T
Tate, Thomas Anglin, 1870. [cover only. Will follows item 156] It 2 #155
Taylor, John, Esquire, Good Hope, Port Royal district, St. Andrew, 1880. It 3 #18
Thames, James, Kingston, carpenter, died 2/15/1881. Probate 1881. It 4 #52
Thomas, John, native of China, at present in Kingston, 1888. It 2 #156
Thompson, Alexander, Moneague, St. Ann, shopkeeper, died 8/10/1879. Probate 1880 It 3 #70
Thomson, John Adam, Curate of Bath, St. Thomas, 1882. It 5 #67
Thomson, Rebecca Caroline, Moneague district, St. Ann, spinster, died 12/11/1881. Probate 1882. It 5 #68
Thornhill, Matilda, 14 Barry Street, Kingston, 1880. It 3 #19
Todd, David, Kingston, tailor, died 2/28/1881. Probate 1881. It 3 #71
Tollen, Thomas, Hanover, distiller, 1757. It 1 #2
Townson, William, London, 1881. It 5 #52
V
Vaughan, Alleck, St. James, laborer, 1847 [No will text. Placed in jail 1837]. It 2 #107
W
Walker, James Darlington, Pleasant Hill plantation, St. Ann, died 3/19/1877. Probate 1882. It 5 #69
Walker, John, Kingston, gentleman, died 5/22/1882. Probate 1882. It 5 #70
Walters, Charlotte, Kingston, gentlewoman, died 3/29/1879. Probate 1882. It 5 #71
Wilcocks, Edward Moulton, "that part of the parish of Kingston called St. Andrew", gentleman, died 4/25/1880. Probate 1880. It 3 #61
Williams, Eleanor, Kingston, single woman, 1881. It 2 #57
Williams, Thomas, St. James, yeoman, 9/2/1879. Probate 1880. It 3 #72
Willocks, Ann, St. Catherine, gentlewoman, died 5/5/1880. Probate recorded 1881. It 4 #53
Wright, Charles, senior, Mount Elam, near Mount Carey, St. James. Filed in Records Office 1892. It 3 #73
Y
Yates, Samuel, Kingston, watchmaker, 1805. It 2 #22
Young, Sarah, St. Catherine, a free Negro woman, 1791. It 1 #39
Yuell, Robert, St. Elizabeth, tailor, 1799. It 1 #73
These Wills are in the Island Records Office in Twickenham Park, Jamaica. The text of these wills may also be found on LDS microfilm #1937926
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