Have you seen this Kev ??
OTHER PLACES of INTEREST
Ashton Pen -
Once owned by the Burlton family with Mount Charles HBJ1840
once owned by Earl family, HBJ1915
1915: 365 acres
1998: now a smart Greathouse hotel just outside Black River.
From Government Gazette, 1813, Ashton Pen, part of Longwood Pen,
300 acres in district of Santa Cruz, and binding upon Emmaus Pen,
for sale for £2000 in 2 parts, or 1500 down.
Fellowship property owned by Jno S. Cooper 1915 HBJ1915
Font Hill, in St Elizabeth & Westmoreland, named from Font Hill Manor,,
was owned by Sir William Beckford, Lord Mayor of London, an absentee
landlord of sugar plantations in Jamaica in the 18th Century. DPNJ.
This was a big Estate in the SW corner of St Elizabeth owned by the
Beckford family until they went bust in 1821, when it passed from the
family. Octavius M. described at his burial in 1840 as a Planter,
resident at Font Hill. A Samuel M married Camilla Beckford, both of
Font Hill, in 1850.
In April 2002, the Font Hill estate is a research forestry plantation
owned by Petrol Company of Jamaica: the original greathouse has
disappeared.
Fullerswood (Salmon):
"Jamaica Surveyed" by BW Higman describes a plantation called
Fullerswood which in 1860 was owned by John Salmon: it is on the
East bank of the Estuary of the Black River in St Elizabeth: this
John Salmon was probably the Executor of Francis M.'s will.
Seen in April 2002, but now a relatively modern house of little
interest: could be seen to have been originally an attractive entrance.
http://www.antonymaitland.com/jamgenrl.htmAnnie
