Rachael Warner (née Pare)

1st daughter and co-heir of John Pare of Antigua, from whom she inherited one moiety of the Pares estate on his death in 1757 at Clifton; she also owned the Belvidere estate on Antigua, probably through her marriage, and the Waterford estate (q.v.) on Barbados which she apparently inherited through the marriage of an aunt to Mr Tunckes of Barbados. She died in London c. 1805. Her will appears to run counter to much of the will of her deceased husband Dr Ashton Warner (dated 05/04/1789) in which he sought to leave property, including the Belvidere plantation for life, to Mrs Mary Ann Masset, a widow of Antigua.

1. Will of Rachael Warner widow of Island of Antigua [late of Devonshire Place] [made in 1803] proved 10/12/1805. Under the will she left £2500 to her great niece [and namesake] Rachael Pare Edwards, secured her one moiety of an estate [and the enslaved people on it] in Old North Sound Antigua which she later in the will identified as Pares, of which she left one moiety to her nephew Rowland Otto Baijer for life and then to her grand-nephew Samuel Otto Baijer, and one moiety to her niece Katherine Edwards for life and then to Katherine's children. She left the Waterford estate [and the enslaved people on it] to her nephew Rowland Otto Baijer and her niece Katherine Edwards as tenants-in-common. She left Belvidere [and the enslaved people on it] in trust to support an annuity of £100 p.a. to Barbara Dunbar the sister of her dead husband and a number of monetary legacies totalling £5050 (including £1000 to Henry Fowke of Tewkesbury), with the estate and enslaved people themselves left to her godson Ashton Warner jun., son of William Warner [of Dominica], and then to his brother Joseph Thos. Warner (q.v.).

Vere Langford Oliver, History of Antigua Vol. III p. 1, 'Family of Pares.'

1. PROB 11/1435/82