John Pusey Wint

My Tri-Grandfather John Pusey WINT was born in Jamaica on March 20, 1781, he is the son of Samuel WINT, a merchant born in London in 1734 and Elizabeth Mary PUSEY born in Jamaica in 1753. His parents own «Ryde Pen» a plantation near Newport in the parish of Vere in Jamaica.

In April 1790, at the age of nine, he lost his father. His mother married Andrew WRIGHT  his father’s executor in the same year. He was sent to England to receive a quality education.

In 1806, upon Andrew’s death, he was one of his principal heirs and executor. Since Andrew has no legitimate son, he inherits the title of Esquire.

In his will, Andrew WRIGHT gave John Pusey his “Single Rock” plantation in Vere. John CHAMBERS, Jeremiah SNOW, James CROSS and John Pusey are appointed as trustees to manage the Mitcham plantation in St Catherine. Through the sale or mortgage of his own trustees he raises a sum of £5,000 for John Pusey: £1,000 per year. He gives £1,000 in Jamaican currency to Andrew Wright Booth, a member of his family. The administrators of the Mitcham plantation had to pay £300 a year to his wife Elizabeth Mary. The remainder of the estate’s income was to be used for the education of her two daughters Ann born in 1790 and Rebecca born in 1800, daughters of Ruth SINCLAIR, until they were 21 or married. If they have no heirs, John Pusey and Andrew Wright BOOTH will own the estate of «Mitcham».

On 8 January 1807 he married in London Eliza BAILEY, the daughter of William BAILEY and Jane, Eliza was also a native of Jamaica. In December of the same year she gave birth to her first child Eliza. Mary Pusey grew her first Cree in 1810 in London as her sister. The family returned to Jamaica around 1811. Their sons John Pusey and William Shute were born in 1812 and 1814 at the Mitcham estate in St Catherine, Jamaica.

Around 1815 they left Jamaica and travelled to Great Britain. A daughter, Susan, was born in 1817 in Devonshire and one, Frances Ann, named Fanny, in Gales in 1820. In 1835 and 1838, the plantation owners, including John Pusey, were compensated for the loss of their freed slaves by the abolition of slavery. This money will allow them to live on their pensions.

His son William Shute died in 1840. A career soldier, he probably succumbs to an illness contracted during the various wars in which he participated, he is 26 years old and is the father of a child of a few months old Ellen my great-grandmother. 

In 1841, they were at Boulogne sur Mer in France. They live on Rue des Vieillards. Bourgeois artery at that time. Doctors, architects, shipowners and annuitants live there. 

Their grandson, John Pusey WINT, was born there in 1842. His parents John Pusey WINT second in name and his mother Sarah Ann HELE married in London in 1841. 

In 1851, They live at 144 rue de l’Ecu, another upscale district of Boulogne sur Mer. 

Their beautiful daughter Maria and their little daughter Ellen live near the old town. Ellen’s maternal grandparents live a few miles away. 

It was not long after his wife’s death in 1853 that John Pusey returned to England. I find him on various documents in London between 1861 and 1879 the year he died at 95.