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Joshua Bushell Nurse

Male 1810 - 1847  (~ 37 years)

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  • Name Joshua Bushell Nurse  [1, 2
    Baptism 3 Jun 1810  Saint George, Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Male 
    Death 16 Nov 1847  Kirton, Estate, Saint Philip, Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    • Barbadian Newspaper, ., November 17. Death. We have the painful duty of recording a most awful and distressing instance of sudden death in one of the most respectable families of our Island. Yesterday morning as Joshua B. Nurse Esq., only surviving son of the late Hon. J.B. Nurse, was dressing, having just ordered his horse to ride around his estate (Kirton) the unfortunate gentleman staggered and fell to the floor without any preliminary symptoms of disease - as we understand - and in a few short moments was a corpse! A post mortem examination was made and the opinion of the medical gentleman was that Mr. Nurse died of sanguineous apoplexy. The whole community will deeply sympathise with his afflicted widow and mother. The deceased was only 37 years of age. He was Adjutant General of Militia and one of H.E. the Governor's Aides-de-camp
    Person ID I3111  Gittens Direct Line from Reunion
    Last Modified 20 Aug 2013 

    Father Hon. Colonel Joshua Bushell Nurse   d. Bef 1849 
    Mother Catherine Bushell,   c. 2 Jun 1780, Christ Church, Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 27 Jul 1805  Saint John, Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Family ID F995  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth Gill,   c. 30 May 1817, Saint Michael, Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 11 Feb 1837  Saint Michael Cathedral, Saint Michael, Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    • Barbadian Newspaper, February 11. Married. On Monday last at the Cathedral by Rev. W. Gill, A.B., Joshua B. Nurse junr. Esq., to Eliza only daughter of Hon. William Gill, Chief Baron of H.M. Court of Exchequer in this Island
    Family ID F997  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 19 Sep 2013 

  • Sources 
    1. [S208] EW, E-mail correspondence with Cliff Gittens. Privately held by Gittens,, Feb 18, 2011>, "Descendants of John Gittens Sr.,".

    2. [S251] IGI, Batch: C513851 1801 - 1840 1157948.