The Tate's

Florence Geraldine Constantine married Rev William Thomas Heron Graham and her sister Francis Eleanor Constantine married Daniel Smith Graham. their parents were Rev Michael Gregory Constantine & Charlotte Anglin Tate. 

Charlotte Anglin Tate was the illegitimate daughter of Thomas Dale Tate esq and a free mulatto woman named Frances C Tomlinson. Although married Thomas seemed to have had a lasting relationship with Frances. This was not uncommon at the time in Jamaica. Often marriages were arranged for political power or to consolidate wealth. This is not to say that Thomas and his wife, Mary, seemed to dislike one another as they did manage to have quite a large family made up of nine children. However as I say it was common for land owners at the time to have mulatto mistresses who they would often put up in a house of their own with servants of their own and it seems most likely that Thomas and Frances had such an arrangement. Over the period of nine years they had five children together.
1. Elizabeth Cunningham Tate - born 1826 at The Bog, Westmoreland, Jamaica (baptism record https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-14056-44446-88?cc=1827268&wc=12962147)
2. Thomas Tate - born Feb 1827 in Sav La Mar, Jamaica. (baptims record https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-14056-45004-10?cc=1827268&wc=12962147)
3. Robert Tate - born 1829 at The Bogue, Westmoreland, Jamaica (baptism record https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-14056-45002-12?cc=1827268&wc=12962147)
4. William Tate - born 1830 at The Bog, Westmoreland, Jamaica (baptism record https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-14056-43700-63?cc=1827268&wc=12962154)
5. Charlotte Anglin Tate - born 1833 at The Bog, Westmoreland, Jamaica (baptism record https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-14056-43700-63?cc=1827268&wc=12962154)
It is interesting to note that Charlotte was baptised with the maiden name of Thomas' wife, Mary Ann Anglin, as her middle name. 

Thomas Dale Tate Esq - (1789-1855), born 6 Nov 1790 (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93567479/thomas-dale-tate ) 

He became a wealthy Planter and Landowner in Westmoreland. In the 1830s he purchased Old Shafston Estate, a 786 acre plantation in the mountains above Bluefields which raised Cattle, Pimento and Logwood, from the Senior family and renamed it Tate Shafston Estate. Over the next few years he added the neighbouring plantations of Robin's River (1,085 acres), Mount Edgecombe (1,821 acres) Rotherwood and Cove until by 1840 he owned 4,166 acres in the Bluefields area. Between 1840 and his death some 15 years later in 1855 Thomas Dale Tate continued to expand his landholdings, purchasing several more nearby plantations including Bluefields, Ackendown, Culloden and Orange Grove until at one time he owned more than 11,000 acres in the parish of Westmoreland. In 1826 he married Mary Ann Anglin (1804-1846), the daughter of John Anglin, Esq., Sugar Planter, and his wife, Martha Dunn. They had 10 children in all, 7 sons and 3 daughters, amongst whom he divided his many plantations in Westmoreland. Thomas Dale Tate also had numerous illegitimate Coloured children by at least three Mulatto mistresses, to whom he also gave gifts of Land, Slaves and Cattle during his lifetime. On his death in 1855 Thomas Dale Tate left the Tate Shafston Estate to his second son, William Anglin Tate (1828-1898), and it has remained the ancestral home of the Tate family in Jamaica. The White descendants of Thomas Dale Tate continue to own and manage Tate Shafston Estate as a Cattle and Pimento plantation and still live in the 18th Century Tate Shafston Great House to this day. The Great House, which was built in the 1750s from cut-stone, mahogany and cedar, is a typical old-fashioned Jamaican Colonial plantation home. It is a long, rectangular building one-storey high, slightly raised up on a stone basement, with the usual wide pillared verandah surrounding it on all four sides to give the maximum amount of shade from the Sun. The interior plan is also very typical with a central Drawing Room and Dining Room flanked on both sides by Bedrooms. There are no ceilings and the lofty rooms are all completely open to the underside of the roof, exposing the heavy wooden beams. The interior wooden walls are mere partitions which allows cool air to circulate throughout the entire house, so that there is no need for either modern air-conditioning or ceiling fans. Tate Shafston Great House has the comfortable atmosphere of an old country house that has been lived in by the same family for many generations. The walls are hung with ancestral portraits, oil paintings of Sir John and Lady Moore and Victorian photographs of various members of the Tate family. Sir John's sword hangs above a mahogany archway and the house is furnished with Jamaican antique mahogany furniture, Georgian silver and Victorian china, rare and valuable items that have been inherited and lovingly passed down from generation to generation as treasured family heirlooms. The beautiful terraced Garden contains an old cut-stone Water Tank, now used as a Swimming Pool, and the original 18th Century Slave Kitchen, complete with its brick chimney and a massive Fireplace and Iron Spit large enough to roast a whole Ox. A nostalgic reminder of those grand days of Old Jamaica when places like Tate Shafston Great House were famous for their lavish plantation hospitality. Two large Mid 19th Century Watercolours of Tate Shafston Estate, painted about 1850, are now in a Private Collection in Kingston. The panoramic views from the verandah of the Great House are amongst the most beautiful in Jamaica.

The Tate Shafton Estate after a hurricane circa 1933 

Thomas Dale Tate was the son of Thomas Tate and Mary Brown, who migrated to Jamaica in the 1790's. His sister died in 1800 and his father soon after. It is said Thomas Tate Snr was a doctor and Mary his wife was previously married to Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore, K.B. (1761-1809). British Army General. Victor of the Battle of Corunna during the Peninsular Wars. His wife, Lady Moore (1762-1812), left him and took their young son with her to Jamaica, where she married in 1784 Thomas Tate (1750-1805), Merchant and Planter of Savanna-La-Mar, Westmoreland, Jamaica. From Sir John and Lady Moore's son, John Moore II (1782-1829) of King's Estate, Westmoreland, are descended the MacLeod family of King's Estate, Westmoreland, Jamaica. From Thomas Dale Tate (1789-1855), Lady Moore's son by her second marriage to Thomas Tate, are descended the Tate family of Tate Shafston Estate, Westmoreland, Jamaica.

A bit about Thomas Dale Tate and his wife Mary Anglin:
Mary Anglin was the great grand daughter of Mrs. Philip Anglin (1713-1797) nee Mary Lawrence. Born in St. James, Jamaica in 1713, the daughter of John Lawrence, Esq. of Fairfield Estate, St. James. She was the great-grand-daughter of the Hon. Henry Lawrence (1600-1664), who was Lord President of the Council in England under Oliver Cromwell. His eldest son settled in Barbados and later in Jamaica where he founded a family of Plantation Owners. The Lawrences became one of the richest Planter families in Jamaica and by the Early 18th Century the five Lawrence brothers were indisputably the largest Landowners in St.James Parish. In the 1740s they owned no less than 24 Plantations and all of the land between Montego Bay and the Little River over 10 miles away, estimated at between 50,000 and 75,000 acres. Their sister, Mary Lawrence (1713-1797), shown here in this Portrait, was married in 1733 to Philip Anglin, Esq. of Paradise Estate, Hanover, the descendant of another family of English Planters settled in Jamaica since the Late 17th Century. Their daughter, Elizabeth Lawrence Anglin (1747-1828), was later married in 1765 to Robert Scarlett, Esq. (1737-1798) of Duckett's Spring Estate, St. James In this splendid Early 18th Century Colonial Portrait Mrs. Philip Anglin nee Mary Lawrence is shown in her Wedding Dress, holding a sprig of a very Rare Botanical Plant that is only found in St. James Parish, Jamaica. Mrs. Anglin died in Jamaica in 1797 aged 84 years old. She was the grandmother of Sir James Scarlett (1769-1844), later the 1st Baron Abinger.