Hon. Stedman Rawlins

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1830

Biography

Probably but not certainly the son and co-heir of Stedman Rawlins II of St Kitts (q.v.). In the mid-1820s missionary accounts of St Kitts include Hon. Stedman Rawlins as a member of HM Council on St Kitts.

A gravestone in Old Burying Ground, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada reads: Sacred to the memory of The Hon Stedman Rawlins, President of His Majesty's Council of the Island of St. Christopher who died May 31, 1830 in the 47th[?] year of his age.

Sources

E.g. Methodist Review Vol. 9 p. 198.

See John Lisle's one name study, http://johnlisle.us/wp/family-trees/search.php?myfirstname=&mylastname=rawlins&mypersonid= for more details on the Rawlins family.

We are grateful for the help of Tod Scott with this entry.

Further Information

Spouse

Gertrude Tyson

Associated Estates (4)

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

1817 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Owner

Harris' [ St Kitts | St John Capesterre ]

In the hands of receivers in the 1820s

1817 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Owner

Mornes Estate [ St Kitts | St Peter Basseterre ]

1828 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Previous owner

Mornes Estate [ St Kitts | St Peter Basseterre ]

1817 [EA] - 1822 [LA] → Owner

Verchild [ St Kitts | St Thomas Middle Island ]

Hon. Stedman Rawlins is shown as the owner of Verchilds in 1817 and 1822, then giving way by 1828 to Gertrude Rawlins, known to be the wife of Hon. Stedman Rawlins the son of Stedman Rawlins II of St Kitts, and Stedman Rawlins jr [later simply Stedman Rawlins], yet to be definitively identified.