David Parris the younger

Absentee slave-owner in Barbados,dying of Gunnersbury, Middlesex in 1795.

1. Administration of the will of David Parris [the younger] of Gunnersbury Lodge [made in 1795] was granted 14/09/1795 to Thomas Watkinson judgement creditor. Under the will David Parris the younger left his aunt Katharine Wharton widow of Barbados an annuity of £100 p.a. secured on his 'sugar work plantation' called Harrison's in St Peter. He left an annuity to Ann Carberry then living with him of £90 p.a. also charged on Harrison's, and £1000 in trust (his trustees included his father David Parris of the island of Barbados). He left his plate to his 'sister-in-law' Anna Maria Parris, and an annuity of £50 p.a. to his servant Alexander Walker of Barbados. His residuary heirs were his 'sister-in-law' Anna Maria Parris and his 'brother-in-law' Paul Parris [Anna Maria and Paul must have been his half-sister and half-brother or conceivably step-sister and step-brother: they were described as 'the sister' and 'the brother' in the grant of administration].

2. There is an unflattering account of how David Parris [presumably the younger given the will above] moved from mortgagee to owner of Harrisons in the will of Timothy Thornhill of St Michael (made in 1811 with a codicil of 1813).

1. PROB 11/1265/204.

2. Brandow, Genealogies of Barbados Families p. 520.