William Tharp

???? - 1847

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Attorney for the estates of John Tharp IV (q.v.) between c. 1829 and 1838, although the Tharp papers show correspondence between William Tharp and his uncle John Tharp VI of Chippenham Park (q.v.) dated 1824-9. Son of Thomas Partridge Tharp and his wife Mary Basilia, baptised in Trelawny in 1800.

  1. Benjamin M'Mahon c. 1838 described William Tharp as an 'extensive attorney' responsible for several estates, seven of them situated in Trelawny and adjacent to each other: 'Mr Tharp keeps a mistress on every property for which he is concerned...'

  2. Most sources show William Tharp as returning to England to live in Sussex after his dismissal as attorney of the Tharp estates c. 1838, but it appears likely that he was the William Tharp Esq. late of Chester estate bachelor who died at Falmouth 19/11/1847 effects under £800 and for whom Letters of Administration were granted 05/11/1860 to Elizabeth Morgan widow the sister of Albany Villa Cliftonville. Mary Basilia Tharp had died 'of Cliftonville' in 1860.


Sources

Tim Barringer 'Land, Labor, Landscape' in Tim Barringer, Wayne Modest (eds.) Victorian Jamaica (2018); Familysearch.org, Jamaica Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880 [database online]; A.E. Furness, 'The Tharp Estates in Jamaica' (2018, https://fgsj.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/The-Tharp-Estates-in-Jamaica-by-A-E-Furness.pdf [accessed 16/10/2019] traces the career of William Tharp as attorney and confirms him as the son of 'Tom' [Thomas Partridge Tharp] of Deans Valley Waterworks.

  1. Benjamin M'Mahon, Jamaica Plantership (1839) pp. 163-4.

  2. E.g. Furness, 'The Tharp Estates in Jamaica', National Probate Calendar 1860.


Further Information

Absentee?
Transatlantic?

Associated Claims (1)

£3,534 19s 7d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)

Associated Estates (14)

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
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1832 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner

Awarded compensation as owner-in-fee in 1836.

1832 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1832 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1832 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1832 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1832 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1832 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Agent
1832 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1832 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney

Relationships (8)

Other relatives
Notes →
Ostensibly first cousins although Henry's mother might have been...
Other relatives
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Ostensibly aunt-nephew although Mary Ann might have been...
Attorney → Principal
Notes →
Also reportedly nephew and...
Brothers
First Cousins
Son → Father
Son → Mother
Grandson → Grandfather