Dame Mary Nagle formerly Blackman (née Harnage)

Dame Mary Nagle, unsuccessful counterclaimant for compensation for ownership of enslaved persons on Boarded Hall estate, Barbados, as annuitant of her late husband John Lucie Blackman (q.v.).

1. Daughter of Henry Harnage and his wife Anne South. In her claim for compensation, while resident at Hampton Court, Middlesex, she stated that her first husband left her an annuity of £700 p.a. for life of which £3750 was due to her in arrears. She remarried, to Admiral Sir Edmund Nagle, in August 1798, to whom Boarded Hall was mortgaged in 1823 by her son, George Blackman (late Sir George Harnage, q.v.).

2. Mary Nagle died in East Moulsey, 13/05/1836, aged 98.

T71/898 British Guiana claim no. 3653 (Boarded Hall).

1. http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I191501&tree=Welsh [accessed 02/07/2012], sourced to Genealogy of Shropshire [by Joseph Morris] (filmed 1966), Morris, Joseph, (10 volumes. Manuscript filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1966), vol. 1-2 FHL microfilm 504,551; vol.3-4 FHL microf., vol. 2 p. 659*, 661. T71/1287 British Guiana claim no. 3653. See separate entries for John Lucie Blackman and Admiral Sir Edmund Nagle. Details of the mortgage and biography of her son George Blackman available at http://www.epsomandewellhistoryexplorer.org.uk/Durdans.html [accessed 02/07/2012].

2. Quote from a description of a memorial inscription at East Moulsey Church, available at http://www.epsomandewellhistoryexplorer.org.uk/Durdans.html [accessed 02/07/2012].