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I have found a "return of slaves in the Parish of St Georges" Jamaica. It is for George Booth Barritt Esq! I believe he was an ancestor born 1/3/1794 in Kingston of a friend Jamaica. He may however, been George's father also named George Booth b 1768

I was wondering if there is anyone who has any info about slavery/plantations or George in Jamaica

George Booth Barritt, "Jamaica Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880"
Name: George Booth Barritt
Event Type: Christening
Event Date: 1794
Event Place: Vere, Jamaica
Gender: Male
Birth Date:
Father's Name: George Booth Barritt
Mother's Name: Elizabeth
Page: 63
Line Number:
GS Film number: 1291677
Digital Folder Number: 004005288
Image Number: 00302

Siblings:-

Edward Marriott Barritt
Jamaica Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880
christening: 14 February 1798 Vere, Jamaica
father: Geo Booth Barritt
mother: Elizabeth

Sarah Garbrand Barritt
Jamaica Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880
christening: 14 February 1798 Vere, Jamaica
father: Geo Booth Barritt
mother: Elisabeth

The couple must have come back to England as here are 2 more siblings born in London:-

Penelope Barritt
England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
birth: 15 November 1803
christening: 18 July 1804 SAINT MARY,LEWISHAM,LONDON,ENGLAND
father: George-Booth Barritt
mother: Elizabeth

Eleanor Booth Barritt
England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
birth: 14 December 1801
christening: 22 January 1802 SAINT MARY,LEWISHAM,LONDON,ENGLAND
father: George-Booth Barritt
mother: Elizabeth

Slave Registers of former British Colonial Dependencies, 1812-1834 about Quashie
Name: Quashie
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1794
Age: 26
Nationality: Creole
Gender: Male
Parish: St George
Colonial Dependency: Jamaica
Owner Name: George Booth Barritt Esquire
Record Date: 1820

Been googling the name and came up with this which may relate to your family, but nothing about their slaves apart from what can be found on ancestry:-

CARIBBEANA VOLUME V Extracts

MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS IN ENGLAND
RELATING TO JAMAICANS

EWELL, CO. SURREY

On a ledger-stone in the floor of the old church tower (the only remaining portion of the former church) :-

SACRED
To the Memory of
THO: HERCY BARRITT
Died Febry 3rd 1804
Aged 18 Months and 3 days
Also
LOUISA ANN BARRITT Died Febry 16th 1812 Aged 12 Years
Also
T. H. BABBITT Esqr.
Died Oct 28th 1817
Aged 79 Years.

Mr. Leonard C. Price of Essex Lodge, Ewell, writes that there is a much worn stone with "Barritt Vault" on it, in the pathway leading up to the tower from Church Street.
1796, March 24. Thomas Hercey Barritt, Esq., W., and Ann Mellas, Spinster; Lic..;-(St. George's, Hanover Square.) His will as date 17 March 1817. He came of an old Jamaican family (Archer, 29 and 33). His first wife was Eleanor, dau. of Sam. Booth of Vere, and I think Geo. Booth Barritt of Lewisham in 1807 was their son.

Looking at daughter Sarah's middle name I would think that this would be relevant to your family (somewhere along the line):-

GARBRAND HALL, EWELL.

A lofty arched gateway on the west side of the street leads to the mansion. It is in the Adams style, a large talbot standing on the top and the usual sphinxes lower down at the sides of the arch. There is a rough-looking shield with many coats of paint on it, which render the identification of the arms difficult, but they are Barritt and Garbrand quarterly. Edmondson's " Heraldry" gives grants of both, viz.:-

BARRITT: Azure on a chevron Ermine between three griffins' heads erased Or, two serpents in saltier, as part of a caduceus proper. Crest: A talbot's head per fess Argent and Ermine, collared Or, eared Sable. Granted to Thomas Hercy Barritt of Jamaica Oct. 28, 1768.

GARBRAND: Or, a battle-axe, in bend sinister, surmounted of a launce in bend dexter, and in chief a dart barwise pheoned and flighted, all proper. Granted to Joshua Garbrand of Jamaica Oct. 28,1768.

Think you should check this web site out. I haven't had a look at the letters they have in their archives as you need to register with them and I don't want to register with yet another site, but it could be of interest to you:-

http://www.britishonlinearchives.co.uk/group.php?cat=&sid=&cid=&pid=71811c&date_option=equal&page=2

It contains:-

Letters, 1784 May 23 to 1811 May 11

LETTERS from Thomas Barritt of Jamaica, G.R.W and S. Hibbert, George Hibbert, and Samuel Hibbert, all of London, to Nathaniel Phillips of Portman Square, London, concerning the market for products imported from the recipient's estate in Jamaica, financial matters and merchandise shipped to Jamaica. (NLW ref. 9634-9652)

Wonderful, Catherine.
Thank you
Going to site now

Take a look at this also they seem to have same letters:-

http://www.microform.co.uk/guides/R50000.pdf

Jamaican Material in the Slebech Papers

from the National Library of Wales and Pembrokeshire Record Office

Introduction to the microfilm collection by Kenneth Morgan Brunel University
2004

It's mostly about Nathaniel Philips but does include:-

11484.
1775, Sept. 5-1792, July 3.
LETTER BOOK of Nathaniel Phillips containing copies of letters, mainly concerning his estates and business in Jamaica, written from Jamaica and London to Hibbert, Purrier and Co., London, and Thomas Barritt, Jamaica.


9076-9077.
1784, Jan. 3-1784, Dec. 31.
LETTERS from Thomas Hibbert of Kingston to Thomas Barritt, Pleasant Hill, Jamaica, with a draft reply, concerning price of provisions and corn on the island, and an offer of the management of Thomas Hibbert’s properties to the recipient.


9634-9652.
1784, May 23-1811, May 11.
LETTERS from Thomas Barritt of Jamaica, G.R.W and S. Hibbert, George Hibbert, and Samuel Hibbert, all of London, to Nathaniel Phillips of Portman Square, London, concerning the market for products imported from the recipient’s estate in Jamaica, financial matters and merchandise shipped to Jamaica.


Reel 7
9109-9116.
1785, March 29-1795, June 9.
LETTERS from Edward Fuhr, Dr. John ?Drysdale, Christie, Thomas Barritt, and Thomas Milner, to Nathaniel Phillips, Jamaica, with some draft letters by the latter, mainly concerning the management of Nathaniel Phillips’s plantations in Jamaica and matters concerning the sugar industry, There is one draft letter from Nathaniel Phillips to Messrs. Hibbert, Fuhr and Hibbert about the duel which he was involved.


9078-9095.
1785, May 4-1788, Nov. 5.
LETTERS from George Hibbert, London, to Nathaniel Phillips, Jamaica, concerning family affairs, news of friends and social events in London, the affairs of Thomas Barritt’s son, George B. Barritt, and the duel fought by Nathaniel Phillips. With draft replies.


(THIS ONE SHOULD BE OF PARTICULAR INTEREST)

11523.
1789, Jan.-June 9.
INVENTORY AND VALUATION of the Jamaica estates, the Negroes, stock, stores, deeds, receipts and instructions delivered up by Nathaniel Phillips to Thomas Barritt 9 June 1789 when the former embarked for England.


11525-11531.
1789, June 9-July 10.
RECORDS pertaining to Nathaniel Phillips’s estates in Jamaica, including a letter from Thomas Barritt about his remuneration, a draft letter from Nathaniel Phillips, a survey of part of Phillipsfield, and notes of grants by Charles II of lands in the parish of St. Thomas in the East.


11525-11531.
1789, June 9-July 10.
RECORDS pertaining to Nathaniel Phillips’s estates in Jamaica, including a letter from Thomas Barritt about his remuneration, a draft letter from Nathaniel Phillips, a survey of part of Phillipsfield, and notes of grants by Charles II of lands in the parish of St. Thomas in the East.


8342-8440.
1789, July 7-1794, Dec. 10.
LETTERS from Thomas Barritt, Pleasant Hill, Jamaica, to Nathaniel Phillips, London, giving periodical reports of the sugar plantations and manufacture on the latter’s estate in Jamaica, the health and work of Negro slaves, the purchase of slaves, the shipment of rum and sugar to England, accounts, and requirements from England. With one letter from Simon Tayler, Kingston, and one from William Walker, Pleasant hill, Jamaica to the same recipient concerning the Jamaica estate and business.

More:-

Reel 11
9201-9211.
1795, Jan. 16-1796, Jan. 1.
LETTERS from Thomas Barritt, Pleasant Hill, Jamaica, to Nathaniel Phillips, London, giving reports on the management and work of the estates in Jamaica.


11569-11616.
1796, Oct. 14-1800, Dec. 4.
LETTERS from Thomas Barritt, Pleasant Hill, Jamaica, to Nathaniel Phillips, London, containing periodical reports on the recipient’s Jamaican plantations, staff, the sugar and rum industry, local news, and shipments of produce to England.


If you go right to the end of the document it gives you contact details. If you have no luck on first web site you could maybe contact this web site to see if they can help you get copies of the letters.

Good luck

So George Booth (the elder)

George Booth Barret, "Jamaica Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880"
Name: George Booth Barret
Event Type: Christening
Event Date: 12 Feb 1769
Event Place: Vere, Jamaica
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 09 Sep 1768
Father's Name: Thos Hercy Barret
Mother's Name: Eleanor
Page: 38
Line Number:
GS Film number: 1291677
Digital Folder Number: 004005288
Image Number: 00290


So his father was Thomas Hercy (so my posting of 15:29 relates to his father's death)

This one's interesting:-

Frances Barritt, "Jamaica Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880"
Name: Frances Barritt
Event Type: Christening
Event Date: 30 Jan 1768
Event Place: Vere, Jamaica
Gender: Female
Birth Date:
Father's Name: Barritt
Mother's Name: Barritt
Page: 48
Line Number:
GS Film number: 1291677
Digital Folder Number: 004005288
Image Number: 00295

Parent's names are not given but she is noted as being Quadroon:-

Quadroon, and the associated words octoroon and quintroon are terms that, historically, were applied to define the ancestry of people of mixed-race, generally of African and Caucasian ancestry, but also, within Australia, to those of Aboriginal and Caucasian ancestry. The terms were used in law and government to provide a precise code of discrimination and the determination of rights. The use of such terminology is a characteristic of hypodescent, which is the practice within a society of assigning children of mixed union to the ethnic group which is perceived by the dominant group as being subordinate.

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and also

Sarah Garbrand Barritt, "Jamaica Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880"
Name: Sarah Garbrand Barritt
Event Type: Christening
Event Date: 21 Apr 1785
Event Place: Vere, Jamaica
Gender: Female
Birth Date:
Father's Name: Barritt
Mother's Name: Barritt
Page: 48
Line Number:
GS Film number: 1291677
Digital Folder Number: 004005288
Image Number: 00295

She is noted as Mulatto:-

Mulatto is a term used to refer to a person who is born from one white parent and one black parent, or more broadly, a person of any proportion of European and African ancestry. In the broadest sense, it is applied to persons of any mixed ancestry.

After Thomas returned to England he had other children with second wife Ann:-

London and Surrey, England, Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1597-1921 about Thomas Hercey Barritt Esquire
Name: Thomas Hercey Barritt
Event Date: 22 Mar 1796
Parish: Hanover Square, St George
County: Middlesex
Spouse's Name: Ann Mellas
Spouse's Age: 21
Spouse's Parish: Hanover Square, St George
Event Type: Allegation
Reference Number: MS 10091/174

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Eleanor Barritt
England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
birth: 26 August 1798
christening: 12 September 1798 SAINT MARY-ST MARYLEBONE ROAD,ST MARYLEBONE,LONDON,ENGLAND
father: Thos. Hercey Barritt
mother: Ann

Louisa Ann Barritt
England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
birth: 10 December 1799
christening: 5 February 1800 SAINT MARY-ST MARYLEBONE ROAD,ST MARYLEBONE,LONDON,ENGLAND
father: Thos. Hercy Barritt
mother: Ann

Thos. Hercey Barritt
England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
birth: August 1802
christening: 27 August 1802 SAINT MARY-ST MARYLEBONE ROAD,ST MARYLEBONE,LONDON,ENGLAND
father: Thos. Hercey Barritt
mother: Ann

Harriet Barritt
England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
birth: 9 December 1803
christening: 8 February 1804 SAINT MARY-ST MARYLEBONE ROAD,ST MARYLEBONE,LONDON,ENGLAND
father: Thos. Hercy Barritt
mother: Ann

Thank you once again Catherine

Gerry :-D

Check the names out here:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/search/
Some of the above names provided by Catherine were claimants.

EG Thomas Hercey Barritt (snr) was deceased at 1836 but daughters Eleanor and Harriet both made unsuccesfull claims for loss of slaves
Follow the links though and see that daughter Harriet married to Sir Edward Hoare

Catherine
I bought access to http://www.britishonlinearchives.co.uk/group.php?cat=&sid=&cid=&pid=71811c&date_option=equal&page=2

The letters make very fascinating reading and give a good insight to what life was like. I am still ploughing through them all.

Glasgow Lass
Thank you for that. Very useful

Gerry :-D

I'm so jealous, I would love to have such an interesting ancestor. :-|

From National Archives:

Reference:CUST 116/43/33
Description: George Booth Barritt. Entry papers for service as an Excise man.

Date: 1853
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record

Images not digitised, you'd need to request a copy.

Also:

Reference:PROB 11/2165/326

Description: Will of George Booth Barritt of France
Date: 26 January 1853
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record

(This is available to download for £3.36)

Thank you Marie

Gerry :-D