Elisha Weir and Dorcas Pottinger, born Jamaica

[Andro93]

Hello. I am trying to find the ancestors of Elisha Weir, born 1933 and Dorcas Pottinger (later his wife), born 1937, both in Clarendon, Jamaica. Their birth records have not been digitised by the LDS Church. Their is an earlier Elisha Weir who died in Clarendon in 1938 aged 45. He may be the father.

[HughC]

I can't help with your immediate problem, but if you get the Pottingers back a century to a certain Moses, I can tell you he was _not_ a son of John F. Pottinger (later a Major General) and his wife Mary Anne née Newcomen, as claimed by several trees at fAnciestree.com.  That couple had just had a child born in India, and I think it highly improbable that they would immediately take ship to Jamaica in order to baptize a different child!

Moses' parents may have been John and Mary Anne, but a different couple.

[Andro93]

Hugh, thank you. I am pleased to say I know where Burton Pedwardine is!!

[HughC]

I admit I would never have heard of Burton Pedwardine if I didn't have ancestors from there.  And they were Welsh anyway (perhaps not surprising with the name Jones). 

The distribution of Pottingers is strange: a nest of them in Devon, and some in the Shetlands.  Mine gave their name to the Mountpottinger area of Belfast (but drank away their fortune, according to family lore).  Good hunting!

[Skoosh]

Andro, have a look at these lists of slave-owners in Jamaica who received compensation in the 1830's.

www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Slavecompensation.htm

You might think that it was the slaves who should have been compensated???

Skoosh.