The HALLs of Jamaica – Allegonda’s Legacy

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Properties

There are many placenames in the Family Register, from Cardiff to Omoa, Honduras. Concentrating of the Jamaican ones, there are parishes (St Thomas in the Vale and Port Royal have since been absorbed into St Catherine & St Andrew):

Kingston

Port Royal

Portland

St Andrew

St Ann

St George

St Mary

St Thomas in the Vale

The old parish boundaries are shown in these maps.

churches:

Half-way tree church, St Andrew

Hope chapel (presumably on Hope Estate, St Andrew)

Parish church, St Thomas in the Vale (at Linstead)

Old burial ground, Kingston

Kingston Streets:

Hanover St (Miss Hunter's house next door to Mrs McKenzie's house)

North St

Duke St (two doors below the Kirk)

No 1 Knight St

towns:

Port Antonio, Portland

Rae Town, St Andrew

and properties. I've managed to find many of these properties in the 1840 Jamaica Almanac (currently http://maxpages.com/jamaicanfamily). In some cases, there are many different properties with the same name, particularly Belmont, Mount Pleasant and Hopewell. There are several different properties named "Hall's Delight".

Place

Size (Acres) and Owner in 1840

Cocoa Nut Grove

Mount Faraway, Port Royal

Westphalia, Port Royal Mountains

Mahogany Vale, Port Royal Mounts

Hall’s Delight, Port Royal

Happy Retreat, Port Royal

Belmont, St Andrew (west)

Belcour Lodge, St Andrew (east)

Bassford Hill, St Andrew

Collins Green Pen, St Andrew

Cottage Pen, St Andrew

Devonshire Lodge, St Andrew

Grecian Regale, St Andrew

Mango Ridge, St Andrew (west)

Monaltrie, St Andrew

Mount Pleasant, St Andrew (west)

Ropley, St Andrew

Sabina Park Pen, St Andrew

Sans Souci, St Andrew (west)

Trevennion Pen, St Andrew

Up Park Villa, St Andrew

Vinyard Pen, St Andrew

Villa de Medici, St Andrew

Marlborough Castle, St George

Llanrumney Estate, St Mary

Belgar, St Thomas in the Vale

Bybrook, St Thomas in the Vale

Hopewell, St Thomas in the Vale

Knollis Estate, St Thomas in the Vale

Ultimatum, St Thomas in the Vale

Wallens Est, St Thomas in the Vale

Walton, St Ann

200 Charles Mackglashan

842 Alexander Jack

270 William Titley

300 Joseph Jackson

80 John H Hall

60 Christopher Maddix

30 Alexander Jacob Lindo

9 William M Anderson

10 James Black

9 ½ Peter M Terrelonge

60 William Fitzgerald, 10 William Hemsley, or 72 Abraham Lazarus

30 Robert Fairweather

36 Dr George P M Downer

39 William Douglas

256 James W Smith

540 James Cockburn

1040 G R Taylor

666 est of Lieut. Col. John Campbell

4580 estate of Robert Ross

802 estate of Robert William Harris,

or 73 James Sadler

1587 estate of John Fuller

1760 Henry Lowndes

Trevennion is also spelled Trevannion.

Of the names associated with each property, John H(erman) Hall and Dr George P M Downer (godfather in 1832) are familiar to me. The information from Donald Lindo contains a different Charles MacGlashan (surgeon Royal Navy, d. 27 Jun 1834) who is almost certainly a close relative, and confirms the spelling of surnames ‘Terrelonge’ and ‘Lowndes’. Surprisingly, although Donald’s CD-ROM contains 9 pages of people with surname Lindo, it doesn’t positively identify Alexander Jacob Lindo.

Only a few of these places are shown on easily available maps. These are links to three of the most useful maps on the web:

The mid-section of Jamaica in 1848

The eastern part of Jamaica in 1848, showing ‘Up Park’, ‘Hope’ & ‘Half-way Tree’ near Kingston. The nearby ‘Halls Delight’ on this map is probably the wrong one. ‘Lanrumney’ is south of Port Maria.

Kingston modern, showing ‘Duke’ & ‘Hanover’ streets, ‘Up Park’, ‘Hope’ & ‘Half-way Tree’.