Kelly's

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Associated People (11)

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
28/12/1780 [SD] - 1809 [EY] → Owner
1758 [SY] - 28/12/1780 [ED] → Joint owner
1758 [SY] - 01/08/1765 [ED] → Joint owner
1809 [SY] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
1754 [EA] - 1754 [LA] → Other

Reportedly owned by Dennis Kelly in 1754. It was later owned by Kelly's son-in-law the Earl of Altamont.

1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Attorney
1820 [EA] - → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney

Given as J.R. Phillips

1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney

Associated Claims (1)

£2,304 15S 2D

Estate Information (21)

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1790
[Name] Kellys Penn  
[Crop] Mules, cattle  
 

The property of the Earl of Altamont. Account filed by John Browne.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 401 [f.200]
1798
[Name] Kelbys  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Dorothy as a sugar estate with a cattlemill 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 Middlesex which he compeleted in 1798.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 39(Tot)  
[Name] Kelly's  
[Crop] Listed as a pen so presumably livestock and possibly also provisions.  
[Stock] 113  
 

Registered to Marquis of Sligo.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15doro.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 42(Tot)  
[Name] Kelly's  
[Crop] Listed as an estate so likely sugar.  
[Stock] 60  
 

Registered to the Marquis of Sligo.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 222(Tot) 110(F) 112(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Caldwell as attorney to the Marquis of Sligo. Assumed to be both Cocoa Walk and Kellys.

 
T71/13 8-12
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 65(Tot)  
[Name] Kelly's  
[Stock] 51  
 

Registered to Marquis of Sligo.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 239(Tot) 120(F) 119(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Thomas Addison of St Mary's as Attorney to the Most Noble Marquis of Sligo. Assumed to be both Cocoa Walk and Kellys.

 
T71/14 12-13
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 53(Tot)  
[Name] Kelly's  
[Crop] Listed as an estate so likely sugar.  
[Stock] 57  
 

Registered to the Marquis of Sligo.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 50(Tot)  
[Name] Kelly's  
[Crop] Listed as an estate so likely sugar.  
[Stock] 93  
 

Registered to the Marquis of Sligo.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24doro.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 54(Tot) 25(F) 20(M)  
[Name] Kellys estate  
 

In the possession of James Corne Pownall as Attorney to the Most Noble The Marquis of Sligo.

 
T71/15 33-34
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 129(Tot)  
[Name] Kelly's  
[Crop] Listed as an estate so likely sugar.  
[Stock] 160  
 

Registered to the Marquis of Sligo.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 56(Tot)  
[Name] Kelly's  
[Crop] Listed as an estate so likely sugar.  
[Stock] 117  
 

Registered to the Marquis of Sligo.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 55(Tot)  
[Name] Kellys Estate  
 

In the possession of Alexander Bayley and J R Phillips Esq as Attornies to the Most Honourable the Marquesses of Sligo.

 
T71/16 88
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 177(Tot)  
[Name] Kelly's  
[Crop] Listed as an estate so likely sugar.  
[Stock] 62  
 

Registered to the Marquis of Sligo.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 55(Tot)  
[Name] Kelly's  
[Crop] Listed as an estate so likely sugar.  
[Stock] 78  
 

Registered to Marquis of Sligo.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29stivdor.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 50(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Alexander Bayley and George Browne Esquires as Attornies of the Most Noble the Marquis of Sligo.

 
T71/17 25
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 49(Tot)  
[Name] Kelly's  
[Crop] Listed as an estate so likely sugar.  
[Stock] 77  
 

Registered to Marquis of Sligo.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831stiv.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 128(Tot)  
[Name] Kelly's Estate  
[Stock] 96  
 

Registered to the Marquis of Sligo.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32doro.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 118(Tot)  
[Name] Kelly's Estate  
[Stock] 79  
 

Registered to the Marquis of Sligo.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Doro.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 117(Tot) 59(F) 58(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Alexander Bayley and George Browne as Attornies of the Most Honourable The Marquis of Sligo.

 
T71/18 385
1839
[Name] Kelly's  
[Size] 620  
 

Registered to Marquis of Sligo.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Dorothy.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.