----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Allicock To: newspost@ttfn35.freeserve.co.uk Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 2:16 AM Subject: Allicock&families,St.Kitts&environs, UK,US,Guyana Dear Michael, Greetings from Toronto, Canada. I hope that you may be able to help me with my research. Thank you for taking the time to read this letter. I am looking for further information on the Alicock (also spelt Allicock, and Allicocke) family. For convenience I will on occasion spell it Al(l)icock(e). I found you all on a list at Robert Garrigus's Website. I am hoping that you may have come across the afore-mentioned names outside of Vere Langford Oliver's "Caribbeanna" and "History of Antigua." I have not looked at his "Monumental Inscriptions" since I think it goes to 1723, so I do not know if there is anything of relevance in there, but there might be for the families with which the Al(l)icock(e) family may have inter-marrried with, inclusive of the ones you are researching. I have also not been able to look in Smith's Caribbean Families in the Library of the Society of Genealogists in London. There may also be information on this family and related ones mentioned below, in the St. Kitts and other Islands Wills Index, which I have also not have the privilege of examining. The head of the family was a Capt. Syer Al(l)icock(e), initially known as James, but for most of his life and military career known as Syer. He had a son called William, and another called Joseph. He also had three daughters: Elizabeth married a Carnegie, (widowed before 1784); Jane married George Fleming in 1734, and Lydia who died in 1736. Most of this comes from Vere Oliver Langford's "Caribeanna." I think I may have found the family he descended from, located in Northamtonshire since the 1600's, but formerly of Sttaffordshire. I am hoping to find more information on him that would positively connect him to that family or maybe another. Syer (James) Allicocke was commissioned in St. James in London as a Lt. in 1713 to Captain Jorrance of Col. Lucas Regiment of Foot in the West Indies. He was later commissioned Capt.-Lt. in Col. Lucas Regiiment of Foot, in 1723, and to Capt. in Col. Dalzell's Regiment of Foot, in 1736, both regiments being stationed in the West Indies. His son William was still serving in the First Marines 1758, but did not rejoin the reformed marines. (Information from a letter from the Marines Museum in the UK, dated 1982, in Papers of Mary Smith Fay, (US Genealogist, d. 2000, papers in a Texas Library) I found William being made an Ensign in 1742/43 at La Guyra? in Capt. Lucas Regiment of Foot. Oliver could not be sure of the year that the attack on La Guyra took place. Anybody know where La Guyra was/is? Panama? John, possibly a son of Syer, may have been the John Allicock I found marrying Mary Wilkinson in Barbados in 1752 and they had Sarah in 1754 and John in 1756. There were no Allicocks in Barbados before 1752 and none after 1756 in the records compiled by Joanne McRee Sanders. But there were Wilkinsons there as early as the 1716 Census. This John, may have had another daughter Sussannah who married a Moor(e)house. His daughter Sarah may have married an Anderson. This John may have also had also had two other sons, Robert Frederick, and Thomas. The latter do not appear in the Barbados records before 1752 and after 1756. All of John's family may have ended up in Demerara after 1796. All of them except his son John were mentioned in Robert's will in Demerara in 1822, as if they were in Demerara at the time. John had died in 1819, leaving his own plantation. (Demerara, along with other Dutch colonies of Essequibo and Berbice, now comprise Guyana in South America, previously known as British Guiana up to Independence in 1966). The capitualtion of the Dutch to the British took in Demerara took place in 1796, and I do not think the family lived there until a bit after, judging from the fact that Robert's children were minors when he died in 1822, and the fact that Thomas married there in 1797. I think they were absentee owners and lived some-place else, in the Caribbean Islands or North America. Syer's son Joseph, was certainly in Philadelhia before 1760, where he went to school, and where I found him in connection to Will of an Elizabeth Pemberton as a witness, and as a correspondent to an Israel Pemberton, both in 1760. Any relationship to the St. Kitts Pembertons? I also found the mention of a Will (in Oliver) by Mrs Elizabeth Carnegie, widow, nee Allicock, which mentions her brother Joseph dated 1784 in Antigua. I contacted the Antigua Archives but they could not find it. I also looked at the relevant LDS film as well as several others, but the condition of all was so poor as to be a waste of ti! me. Joseph left America in 1783 for the UK. I found him in London until 1794 where he had re-established himself as a wine merchant. Two of his sons (John and Joseph?) (both in J.C. Murtree's "Loyalists in the Southern Campaign") were Officers in the Loyalist Forces during the American revolution. He also may have been a Col. in the Colonial New York militia before the Revolution. He also left some of his children in America. These are mentioned by Mary Smith Fay. For the foregoing reasons I would really appreciate hearing from you on any Al(l)icock(e), Anderson, Carnegie, Fleming, Moor(e)house (also spelt, Muirhouse) and Wilkinson that you may have come across in your research in and around St. Kitts and other Islands as well as North America and the UK, who are possibly related. Thank you for your time. Looking forward to hearing from you, even if you have no information or advice to offer at this time Yours sincerely, Richard Allicock, Toronto, Canada