Amelia and/or Amey of Good Hope
This is not so much a family tree as a selection of records which seem to be linked, but not in any coherent way.
The slave lists from the Good Hope estate include nine individuals with a mother called Amelia or Amey:
Sally (b. 1763), whose mother was Amey
George (1780-1829), whose mother was Amelia
The same lists include two women called Amelia and one called Amey. One (I'll call her Amelia A) was born in 1757 in Africa and the other (Amelia B) is included in the list above. Amey was also born in 1757 in Africa and died in 1824 in Jamaica.Tom (b. 1783), whose mother was Amelia
Appia (b. 1786), whose mother was Amelia
Rose (b. 1820), whose mother was Amelia
Amelia (b. 1824), who was described as Mulatto, and whose mother was Amey
Eliza Partridge (b. 1829), whose mother was Amelia
John Partridge (b. 1829), whose mother was Amelia
Tom Tharp (b. 1831), who was described as Mulatto, and whose mother was Amelia Tharp
Sally (b. 1763) had a mother called Amey. The Amey who was born in Africa (1757-1824) was estimated to be 60 in 1817, when Sally's age was estimated as 54. If those ages were accurate, it isn't possible that this Amey was Sally's mother, but the ages are only estimates. If Amey were only five years older and Sally five years younger, their relationship would have been possible. Sally gave birth to Binah (1790-1824) when she would have been 27 if she was born in 1763.
Amelia A appears to have been the mother of George (1780-1829), Tom (b. 1783) and Appia (b. 1786). If 1757 is a correct estimate of her birth year, she would have been between 23 and 29 when they were born.
Amelia A and Amey would both have been too old to be the mother of the children born in the 1820s and 30s, but Amelia B was too young, and no other Amelia is listed on the estate. I can only assume that this Amelia was listed under a different name in the 1817 register.
Rather than positing two missing women, it could be that Amelia B was a sister to Rose, Eliza, John and Tom.
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