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Kirton Estate

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Associated People (4)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1832 [SY] - 1832 [EY] → Owner
Hon. Colonel Joshua Bushell Nurse
- 1806 [LA] → Owner
John Nurse
- 1806 [LA] → Executor
Hon. Colonel Joshua Bushell Nurse
- 1806 [LA] → Executor
John Henry Nurse

Associated Claims (2)

Barbados 3292 (Kirton Estate)
£2,874 1S 6D
Barbados 3295 (Kirton Estate)
£137 16S 8D

Estate Information (2)

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1806
[Number of enslaved people] 112(Tot)  
 

Inventory of John Nurse, deceased, Kirtons, Christ Church. Taken 11 October 1806. (The inventory also bears the date 1810.) Executors: Joshua Bushell Nurse and John Henry Nurse.

Enslaved numbers given did not distinguish between men and women.
Total value of the enslaved: £8,285 0 0d.
Total value of the estate: £24,199 18 9d.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Inventories.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 125(Tot)  
 

Return of Joshua Bushell Nurse, his own property.

Note also the returns (with numbers of enslaved in ( ) ) of: Joshua Bushell Nurse [JBN] for James Nurse (6); for Rev. John Nurse (9); for JBN jun. (4); for Katharine Nurse (2); for Mary Nurse (1); Jacob Nurse (his own) (8); Mary J. P. Nurse for Samuel Nurse (decd) (0): 1 reverted back to Mary J. P.; Samuel J. Nurse (his own) no change since previous reg. (3); Mary J. P. Nurse (her own) (6). For these see T71/548, pp. 79-81.

 
T71/548 79