Alexander Purcell Anderson

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1840

Biography

MD, dying of Hampden [sic] House Brighton in 1840. Sometime before 1821, he had sold for £1921 to his brother James Anderson of New City Chambers (q.v.) part of a £4000 mortgage over Brewers Bay estate [and the enslaved people attached to it] owed by their deceased brother Andrew Anderson. He was presumably a namesake of John Purcell of Tortola.

Will of Alexander Purcell Anderson doctor of Medicine of Brighton proved 28/12/1840. The beneficiaries were his nieces Caroline and Anna Anderson (each of whom q.v.).

Sources

PROB 11/1937/89.

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Spouse

Mary Cathcart Pycroft

Associated Estates (1)

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

1821 [EA] - 1821 [LA] → Mortgage Holder

Brewers Bay [ Virgin Islands ]

In his will made in 1821, James Anderson said that the had previously purchased for £1921 from his brother Alexander Purcell Anderson part of the mortgage the two held over their brother Andrew Anderson's Brewers Bay estate on Tortola.