Aretas Estridge

Profile & Legacies Summary

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Biography

Son of John Estridge of Brislington (q.v.), from whom he inherited the Bramble or Mountain estate on St Kitts. The estate, along with John Estridge's other legacies, appears to have been overwhelmed by debt.

Aretas Estridge married Ann Mary Wharton Julius, daughter of John Julius (q.v.), at St Augustine-the-Less in Bristol 11/05/1796.
The children included 1st son John Julius (21 May 1799,-23 June 1881) who became a Church of England minister in Stratfteld Turgis, Hampshire (1822-26), in Winterbourne Clenstone, Dorset (1826-45), in Gussage All Saints, Dorset (1833-45) and in Puncknowle, Dorset (1845-81). He died in Puncknowlewest. 2nd son Aretas William (29 October 1804-5 May 1879) who married Catharine Barnstable and died in Bradford-on-Avon.

Sources

Ancestry.com Aretas Estridge in the Bristol, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 [database online].
R. L. Arrowsmith (comp.), Charterhouse Register 1769 -1872 (London & Chichester, Phillimore, 1974). Thanks to Catherine Smith, Charterhouse Archivist, for this reference.

Further Information

Spouse

Ann Mary Wharton Julius

Children

Aretas William

Associated Estates (2)

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

1778 [EA] - 1778 [LA] → Heir

Estridges Bramble Estate [ St Kitts | St John Capesterre ]

1778 [EA] - → Tenant-in-tail or Remainderman

Estridges or Lower [ St Kitts ]

Aretas Estridge appears to have benefited from the reversion of the Lower estate after the death of his brother Benjamin, who possibly predeceased their father John Estridge of Brislington.