Shirley Families
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Jamaica

Families of Portland Parish
(including St George Parish)

1. Henry Shirley, esq of Hyde Hall plantation in Jamaica b 1745 in Chambery Savoy (France), d. 1813 London, England. He had no legitimate children, but fathered a boy and girl with a free mulatto woman named Sally Skiers.

2. Charles Grant Shirley of Jamaica b ca. 1800 lived St. George Parish, Portland m. Grace Daniels 1840

3. Edmund Shirley, carpenter, free person of color married Mary Ivey Mann in St George parish in 1813. Their descendants are plentiful throughout Jamaica and the United States. DNA Haplotype I

Families of Kingston Parish

1. Father Edwin S. Shirley, born 22 August 1885 in Jamaica. Son of James Shirley. Family migrated to Florida, and includes the famous pianist Donald Shirley

Families of St Catherine Parish

1. Shirley families found in the parish registers in St Catherine Parish including the family of Richard Shirley and wife Eleanor Smith of Salt Island Road, Spanish Town

Families of Trelawny Parish

1. Bernard Shirley, esq born in Chambery France, brother of Henry Shirley of Hyde Hall Jamaica. His children inherited estates of their uncle Henry. He fathered several illegitimate children, some who carried the surname Scharsmidt.DNA Haplotype I

2. Michael Alfred Barnett Shirley born in Duncan, Trelawny on 30 November 1877. He lived and died in the Republic of Panama DNA Haplotype I

3. Thomas Henlon Shirley born say 1837, lived at Prospect, Trelawny Parish

4. Joseph A Shirley born say 1850, married Mary Ann Stobbs and raised a family in Ulster Spring Trelawny. Some of the family lived in Havana Cuba and in Galveston Texas

Families of St Ann and Clarendon Parishes

1. Shirley Families of St Ann and Clarendon Parishes - There is a cluster of Shirley families living in and around Brown's Town, Alexandria St Ann Parish, and these families seem to be the same as the Shirleys who live across the boundery in Morgan's Forest and Harwood Clarendon Parish NEW

 

 

 

 

 

Bermuda

1. John Adolphus Shirley of Bermuda. Born about 1833, native of Scotland. Some descendants moved to New York City. (pedigree image)

   

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