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1846 - 1907 (60 years)
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Name |
Louisa Cover |
Born |
30 Oct 1846 |
Huntley, St Ann, Jamaica [1, 2] |
Baptized |
19 Feb 1862 |
Huntley, St Ann, Jamaica [1, 2, 3] |
Gender |
Female |
Died |
16 Jul 1907 |
Jamaica [4] |
Age: 64 |
- Note that age stated at death gives a birth date about 1843
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Notes |
Madeleine Mitchell writes: Louisa was one of the Outside (outside of marriage) children of John Cover, at her baptism in 1862, although she was born in 1846. Her mother was listed as Sarah Smith. The fact that her mother's surname is used is significant because it means John Cover and Sarah Smith were not married. Our family lore is that John Cover had this outside family before he married Margaret Ellis in 1862. (He had 7 sons and one daughter including Septimus Royes Cover by Margaret Ellis Cover). Louisa therefore was probably of colour, and I suppose could have been mistaken for an Indian but I think that unlikely. You will see that the children of Louisa (in which she is listed as Louisa Royes nee Cover) born at Knapdale were born in the 1870's. This however does not answer the question of which Charles John Sr or Jr was the father of these children since senior lived to 1877 and Junior to 1905. Unfortunately there are no Methodist marriage records on Patricia Jackson's site, although the Mormon church did microfilm Dissenter Marriages which included Methodist records. It looks like they were married it was between 1862 and 1872. In the Law 6 register at the baptism of the children Charles Royes is listed as Planter, and the children were M or F Coloured, Legitimate.
This will probably muddy your waters more, but it is as I know it. [5]
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Person ID |
I3864 |
Roy~Royes | Royes Jamaica |
Last Modified |
13 Jan 2017 |
Father |
John Foster Cover, jr, b. 23 Jan 1825, Jamaica , d. 26 Jul 1878, Kingston, Surrey, Jamaica (Age 53 years) |
Mother |
Sarah Smith, b. 1830, SC, USA |
Family ID |
F700 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family |
Charles John Royes, jr, b. Est 1832, St Ann, Jamaica , d. 7 Nov 1905, Jamaica (Age ~ 73 years) |
Children |
| 1. Charles Henry Foster Royes, b. Knapdale, St Ann, Jamaica  |
| 2. Margaret Louise Royes, b. Knapdale, St Ann, Jamaica  |
| 3. Adelaide Royes, b. Jamaica  |
+ | 4. Living |
+ | 5. Samuel William Royes, b. 1877, Saint Ann, Middlesex, Jamaica , d. 19 Jan 1956, Mandeville, Manchester, Jamaica (Age 79 years) |
| 6. Solomon Hougham Royes, b. 2 Feb 1879, Brown's Town, Saint Ann, Jamaica , d. 2 Mar 1942, Calvin, Cass, Michigan, USA (Age 63 years) |
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Last Modified |
28 Mar 2014 |
Family ID |
F1384 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Sources |
- [S84] Royes-Cover (Mitchell), Madeleine Mitchell, Email 26 Nov 2008.
- [S32] Jamaican Family Search, Patricia Jackson, Wesleyan Methodist Baptisms, Brown's Town Circuit, St. Ann, Jamaica.
- [S316] Wesleyan Methodist Baptisms, (Jamaican Family Search), p 163 #767.
Cover, Louisa, dtr of John Cover & Sarah Smith, overseer, res Huntley, b 10/30/1846, bap 2/19/1862 by William Tyson, p. 163 #767
- [S406] Jamaica Civil Registration, index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KP16-HL8 : accessed 18 January 2015), Louisa Royes, 1907.
- [S196] Royes-Jamaica Correspondence (Charles), Charles Royes, 28 Nov 2008.
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