John Wilson Carmichael - Soldier and Planter in St. Vincent
Posted on February 18, 2007
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John Wilson CARMICHAEL was born about 1775 (see death notice in Footnotes below), location unknown, but believed to be Scotland. By 1797, he was stationed with the 53rd Regiment of Foot in St. Vincent, where he married Margaret Ann FALSIDE (baptised in St. Vincent January 17, 1779, daughter of Dr. James FALSIDE and Anne ALEXANDER) [1] on August 24, 1797. [2]
Baptisms for two of their three known children are recorded in St. Vincent:
Stephen Falside CARMICHAEL, baptised Nov. 15, 1799. [3] (son of Lt. J. and Margaret, his wife, 53 Regiment)
Margaretta Jane CARMICHAEL, baptised May 23, 1807. [4] (daughter of J. and Margaret, his wife)
Isabella Anne CARMICHAEL was born about 1801, probably in St. Vincent, but her baptism is not recorded.
Between 1805 and 1814, the CARMICHAEL family seems to have left St. Vincent and moved to England. Margaret Ann (FALSIDE) CARMICHAEL died in London on August 03, 1774. [5] After the death of his first wife, John Wilson CARMICHAEL married a second time in Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland to Alison Charles STEWART, the daughter of Charles STEWART [6]. Any connections to the STEWART’s of St. Vincent isn’t known, but it should be noted that in her book, Mrs. CARMICHAEL says she “beheld the West Indies for the first time……on the last day of December, 1820.[7]
John Wilson CARMICHAEL and Alison Charles STEWART had at least two children, whose baptisms were recorded in Edinburgh, Scotland:
Mary Erskine CARMICHAEL christened at Saint Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland on Jan. 1, 1817. [8]
Alison Johanna CARMICHAEL christened at Saint Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland on May 4, 1819. [9]
According to Mrs. CARMICHAEL’s book, the family lived in St. Vincent a few years after 1820, before removing to Trinidad, where it appears they lived until 1832, which is the latest date found in the book. They left Trinidad for England, probably settling in Worcestershire. At some point thereafter, they removed to Jersey in the Channel Islands, settling in St. Helier, where John Wilson CARMICHAEL died in May 1850. [10]
Isabella Anne CARMICHAEL married Charles William WARNER on August 10, 1829 in Worcester, England. [11] She died in London, England in 1841. [12]
Margaretta Jane CARMICHAEL married Pemberton HOBSON on August 01, 1821 in St. Vincent.[13] She died on May 23, 1863 in Brighton, England. [14]
Mary Erskine CARMICHAEL appears not to have married. She was enumerated with her mother in the 1851, 1861, and 1881 Channel Island census in St. Helier, Jersey. She apparently died between 1871 and 1881, as her mother is enumerated with only one servant in the 1881 Channel Island census in St. Helier, Jersey.
Alison Johanna CARMICHAEL married Alexander John SUTHERLAND (son of Dr. Alexander Robert SUTHERLAND) on July 27, 1839 in St. Helier, Jersey. [15] It’s not yet known if he ties in with the SUTHERLAND family of St. Vincent.
Notes on John Wilson CARMICHAEL:
He is probably the John CARMICHAEL listed as an Ensign with the Queen’s Companies in 1828, on Appendix page lviii of Charles Shephard’s “An Historical Account of the Island of Saint Vincent”.
John CARMICHAEL et. al. to Sir Charles BRISBANE, October 9, 1809, E. CAIN, James DOUGLAS, and Thomas DICKSON to BRISBANE, March 19, 1810, in Ebenezer Duncan, “A Brief History of Saint Vincent”, (Kingstown, St. Vincent: E. Duncan, 1941), page 27.
SOURCE: Footnote 21 to pages 200 - 205 of The King’s Ranger: Thomas Brown and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier. By Edward J. Cashin.. Fordham Univ. Press.
Notes on Stephen Falside CARMICHAEL:
Listed in Mill’s Almanac for 1840, as reprinted in Surgery in Trinidad by Anthony de Verteuil, C.S. Sp., Litho press, Port of Spain, Trinidad, 1996. Note that an M.D., or Doctor of Medicine, was the highest level, qualified to practice both as a physician and a surgeon.
REGISTRY OF MEDICAL LICENSES - PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
Stephen CARMICHAEL M.D. - 1823
Footnotes:
[1] Baptism records of St. George’s Anglican Cathedral in Kingstown, St. Vincent.
[2] Marriage records of St. George’s Anglican Cathedral in Kingstown, St. Vincent. Marriage also noted in American Vital Records from the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1731-1868, by David Dobson. Page unknown.
[3] Baptism records of St. George’s Anglican Cathedral in Kingstown, St. Vincent.
[4] Ibid.
[5] DEATHS, Aug. 3. [1814] In Alfred-place, Bedford-square, the wife of J. Wilson CARMICHAEL, esq. of the Island of St. Vincent. SOURCE: The Gentleman’s Magazine, Volume LXXXIV. July to December 1814. Pg. 198.
[6] Old parochial registers for Edinburgh, 1595-1860. Church of Scotland, Edinburgh.
[7] Pg. 3 of Chapter I, Volume I. Five Years in Trinidad and St. Vincent: A View of the Social Condition of the White, Coloured, and Negro Population of the West Indies. By: Mrs. A. C. Carmichael. Published in 1834.
[8] Parish registers for St. Cuthbert’s Church, Edinburgh, 1573-1855, Church of Scotland. St. Cuthbert’s Church, Edinburgh.
[9] Ibid.
[10] May 1850. At St. Helier’s, aged 75, John Wilson Carmichael, esq., late Capt. 53rd Regt. many years an inhabitant of Worcester. SOURCE: The Gentleman’s Magazine, Volume XXXIV, July to December, 1850. Page 108.
[11] Warner family pedigree chart by James W. Cropper, 2005.
[12] DEATHS, London and its vicinity, March 29. At Alpha road, Regent’s park, aged 39, Isabella Anne, wife of Charles WARREN****, esq., Sol.-gen. for Trinidad, eldest dau. of Capt. CARMICHAEL, late 53rd regt. SOURCE: The Gentleman’s Magazine. July, 1841. Page 216. ****this should be Charles WARNER, who was appointed Solicitor-General for Trinidad on July 2, 1840 as per the Times of London for July 4, 1840, page 4, column B.
[13] Marriage records of St. George’s Anglican Cathedral in Kingstown, St. Vincent. Marriage also noted on page 7 of the Edinburgh Advertiser newspaper of Edinburgh, Scotland for 28 September 1821: “MARRIAGES - In the Island of St. Vincent, on the 1st ult. Pemberton HOBSON, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, to Margaretta Jane, second daughter of John Wilson CARMICHAEL, Esq., late Captain in his Majesty’s 53d Regiment.” Also, from page 40 of Volume II, “Domestic Manners and Social Condition of the White, Coloured, and Negro Population of the West Indies.” by: Mrs. Carmichael, five years a resident in St. Vincent and Trinidad. Published in 1834. “…my
husband’s youngest daughter, who had married Pemberton HOBSON, Esq., now attorney-general of St. Vincent.”
[14] May 23. At Brighton, aged 58, Margaretta Jane, relict of Pemberton HOBSON, esq., H. M.’s Attorney-General for St. Vincent. Page 111 of the Gentleman’s Magazine, Volume XV, July to December, 1863.
[15] The Times of London for August 02, 1839 - MARRIED - On the 27th ult., at the Old Church, St. Helier’s, Jersey,
by the Rev. Charles Woodcock, Vicar of Chendstock, Dorsetshire, Alexander John SUTHERLAND, M. D., eldest son of Alexander Robert SUTHERLAND, M. D., Parliament-street, Westminster, to Alison Johanna CARMICHAEL, youngest daughter of John Wilson CARMICHAEL, Esq., late Captain 53d Regiment.
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