John Hyde of Montagu Square

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1835

Biography

John Hyde of Lexham Hall, Norfolk and then of Montagu Square (1753-1835), whose will [made 12/11/1835] was proved 18/05/1835. Father of Francis Acres Hyde (q.v.). In his will he rehearsed his marriage settlement of 30/03/1793 under which two sums totalling around £12,500 had been settled to secure an annuity of £1000 p.a. to his late wife Catherine or Katherine Maria Bathoe [she was the daughter of an East India Co. man John Bathoe whose will of Bath was proved 22/11/1816]. He had settled almost £10,000 on his daughter in anticipation of her marriage to Lt-Col. Joseph D'Arcy. His main heir was his son Francis Acres Hyde, to whom he left his estates and all the stock thereon in Jamaica. In addition he was an annuitant on the Grand Roy estate in Grenada under the will of his father John Hyde of St James Hackney (q.v.), who had purchased the annuity [on an unknown life] secured on Grand Roy from the executors of Peter Fearon.

Sources

PROB 11/1846/456.

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Spouse

Catherine Maria Bathoe

Associated Estates (3)

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

1783 [EA] - 1783 [LA] → Owner

Constant Spring [ Jamaica | St Andrew ]

John Hyde 'of St. Geo., Hanover Square' but identifiable as the same man as John Hyde of Montagu Square was the lessor in a transaction in 1783: '1783, March 26. Indenture between John Hyde of St. Geo., Han. Sq., Esq., only son and heir and residuary legatee of John H., late of Cornhill, Merchant, and George Healy of the one part, and Ebenezer Maitland of London, Merchant, of the other, Lease for a year of the Constant Spring plantation by Hyde to Maitland. (Coleman's Deeds.)' The will of John Hyde of Hackney, father of John Hyde of Montagu Square, connects him to Cornhill. It appears likely that he elder John Hyde had purchased an annuity secured on the estate and then foreclosed.

1776 [EA] - → Annuitant

Grand Roi Estate [ Grenada | St John ]

Inherited an annuity of £200 p.a. secured on the Grand Roy estate from his father John Hyde of St James Hackney.

1776 [EA] - 1833 [LA] → Joint owner

Tryall Estate [ Jamaica | Hanover ]

The estate in Jamaica owned by John Hyde in his will made in 1833 and proved in 1835 has been inferred to be Tryall.