Appeals to the Privy Council from the
Caribbean and Canadian Colonies
Report No. JAM_1779_01

Lindsay v Wake

Sturt v Wake

Jamaica 

 

Case Name Long

Rev. Dr. John and Grace Lindsay v Dr. Charles Wake and William Mathew Burt

 
Case Name Long

Humphrey Sturt and William Beckford v Dr. Charles Wake, William Mathew Burt, and William Beckford

 
 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation  

v.5 [367] p.472 (19 March 1779 – 18 May 1781)

 
  PC Register Citation

George III v.16 (Oct. 1778 – June 1779) p.326–327: PC 2/123/326–327

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  PC Register Citation

George III v.17 (July 1779 – Feb. 1780) p.61, 542, 571–572: PC 2/124/61–62, 542, 571–572

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  PC Register Citation

George III v.19 (Jan. 1781 – Sept. 1781) p.76–84, 345–346: PC 2/126/76–84, 345–346

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Colonial Courts

 
 

Chancery – 19 Feb. 1778

 
 

Chancellor – 19 and 20 May 1778

 

Participants

Beckford, William (1), deceased (father of William [2])

 

Beckford, William (2), infant, appellant (son of William [1])

 

Booth, Grace – see Lindsay, Grace

 

Booth, Norwood, presumed deceased (husband of Grace [now Grace Lindsay])

 

Burt, William Mathew, respondent (executor of William Beckford [1])

 

Gale, Grace – see Lindsay, Grace

 

Gale, Jonathan, presumed deceased (husband of Grace [now Grace Lindsay])

 

Gardner, Grace – see Lindsay, Grace

 

Gardner, John, deceased

 

Gardner, Thomas, deceased (husband of Grace [now Grace Lindsay])

 

Gibbons, Sir John, respondent, later deceased (executor of William Beckford [1])

 

Lewing, Richard

 

Lewis, James

 

Lindsay (née Pusey, formerly Gardner; Gale; Booth), Grace, appellant (wife of John, widow of Thomas Gardner, presumed widow of Jonathan Gale and of Norwood Booth, daughter of John Pusey)

 

Lindsay, Rev. Dr. John, appellant (husband of Grace)

 

May, Rose Herring

 

Millward, John

 

Penoyre, Thomas

 

Pusey, Grace – see Lindsay, Grace

 

Pusey, John (father of Grace [now Grace Lindsay])

 

Sturt, Humphrey, appellant

 

Wake, Dr. Charles, respondent (executor of William Beckford [1])

 

Description

Not stated in the Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series.

Disposition

Latter appeal dismissed with costs for non-prosecution.

Notes

Related to another Privy Council appeal:

Millward v Lindsay – Report No. JAM_1768_02 (APC, v.5 [73] p.151).

The documents in APC v.6 are entitled Lindsay v Gibbons. The information about Gibbons in the Participants list is derived from the PC 1 documents. That John Gardner is deceased is documented in PC 1/56/79.


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

Not found

 

Privy Council Documents in PC 1 at The National Archives at Kew

 
TNA Document Petition of appeal (Lindsay v Gibbons) – 18 Feb. 1779 (PC 1/56/79) view_Document
Notes about
Document
Referenced in APC v.6 [978] p.575.

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TNA Document Order of reference – 19 March 1779 (PC 1/56/79) view_Document
Notes about
Document
Referenced in APC v.6 [978] p.575.

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TNA Document Draft of report – undated (PC 1/56/79) view_Document
Notes about
Document
Referenced in APC v.6 [978] p.575. The images in AALT also contain the dorse of the order of reference, apparently to give a date to the document that is otherwise undated. A modern hand has added on the dorse of the undated draft: “Draft of report 3/2/81.” The source of this date is unclear.

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TNA Document Order – 18 May 1781 (PC 1/57/81) view_Document
Notes about
Document
Referenced in APC v.6 [1010] p.589.

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