Hugh Rose of St Mary Jamaica

Owner of Stoneyfield in St Mary, Jamaica. Deceased c. 1816, with property and relatives in Nairn. His relationship if any to the Roses of Kilravock has not yet been established by LBS.

1. Will of Hugh Rose of St Mary Jamaica [made in 1814 and attested in 1816] proved 25/02/1818. He left annuities of £50 p.a. to each of his four sisters Margaret, Elizabeth, Grace and Henrietta Rose all of Nairn chargeable on his pen called Stoneyfield, and he gave them the right to live in his house at Nairn for life, thereafter the house to go to his nephew John Rose. He left his sister [possibly his sister-in-law] Margaret Brodie of Kingston Jamaica £500 and his niece Catherine Maitland of Inverness similarly £500. He instructed his executors to free his four 'brown sons' Alick, Hugh, William and Robert Rose and left each of them £100, and to free an enslaved man named Charles Robertson to whom he left £10 currency p.a. He left Stoneyfield and his residuary estate to his nephew John Rose with consent to sell it on condition that the proceeds were invested in an estate in Britain (it appears that the estate was indeed sold by the Jamaican executor c. 1820).

1. PROB 11/1601/362.