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30 Jan 2014 23:19 |
Thank you Marie
Gerry :-D
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MarieCeleste
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29 Jan 2014 14:57 |
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)
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Catherine
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29 Jan 2014 14:08 |
I'm so jealous, I would love to have such an interesting ancestor. :-|
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Gerry
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29 Jan 2014 01:16 |
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
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28 Jan 2014 17:05 |
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
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27 Jan 2014 23:57 |
Thank you once again Catherine
Gerry :-D
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Catherine
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27 Jan 2014 17:43 |
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
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Catherine
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27 Jan 2014 16:45 |
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.
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Catherine
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27 Jan 2014 16:30 |
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)
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Catherine
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27 Jan 2014 16:14 |
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
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Catherine
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27 Jan 2014 16:04 |
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.
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Gerry
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27 Jan 2014 15:52 |
Wonderful, Catherine. Thank you Going to site now
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Catherine
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27 Jan 2014 15:40 |
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)
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Catherine
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27 Jan 2014 15:34 |
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.
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Catherine
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27 Jan 2014 15:29 |
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.
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27 Jan 2014 14:37 |
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
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Catherine
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27 Jan 2014 14:32 |
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
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Catherine
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27 Jan 2014 14:31 |
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
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Catherine
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27 Jan 2014 14:27 |
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
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27 Jan 2014 14:15 |
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
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