Thomas Nassau [also given as Nassau Thomas] Senior

Died, Upper Church St. Bath. He was the son of Moses Aaron Senior and Elizabeth Baldrick Halsey, the husband of Frances Raven, the father of John Raven Senior [and hence the grandfather of the economist Nassau William Senior] and Elizabeth Baldrick Senior, the brother of Ascanius William Senior, and the half-brother of Robert Halsey Baldrick and Charles Adam Baldrick. Owner of Baldrick’s, St John, Barbados and Pool’s plantation in St Joseph and St Andrew. He also held a mortgage on the Harrow plantation, 1777-1790. [Presumably the mortgage was held by his wife after 1786.]

1. Will of Nassau Thomas [sic] Senior of Bath proved 22/08/1786. In the will he left his property, including his estates of Baldrick and Pools in Barbados, in trust for his wife Frances and his son John Raven Senior to share the income provided that Frances's share was at least £300 p.a.

Geni family tree; Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations and Index of Names. In the ODNB entry for Nassau William Senior, Thomas Nassau Senior is described as 'a merchant trading overseas' in characterising his son (and Nassau William Senior's father) John Raven Senior; Phyllis Deane, ‘Senior, Nassau William (1790–1864)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25090, accessed 6 Sept 2016]

1. PROB 11/1145/187.