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Mary Quailes

Female Abt 1699 - Abt 1757  (58 years)

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  • Name Mary Quailes  [1, 2] 
    Birth Abt 1699 
    Gender Female 
    Wills 9 Jun 1752  Saint Michael, Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    • Proved 19 Jan 1757, Chas Pinfold
      Mary Gittens1757RB6/35/264 St Michael, widow

      If my dear daughter-in-law Sarah Jackson shall be delivered of the child…and born alive I direct that the sum of sixteen pounds a years interest at the principal sum of two hundred pounds now in the hands of my good friend Mc Beall to be paid out in the purchase of a little Negro for my said grandchild.

      I give to my dear son John Jackman one hundred pounds the residue thereof I give to my dear son Joseph Gittens…

      I give one of my late dear husbands gold shoe buckles to my said son Joseph Gittens and the other to my said son Joseph Gittens to make each of these a bandbuckle which I desire they will wear in remembrance of me.

      …to my dear daughter-in-law Sarah Jackman my pair of stone buttons…

      To my good friend Mrs Elizabeth Kierne my two wedding rings

      ….and all the rest and remainder of my estate to my said son Joseph Gittens his heirs executors and assignees for ever

      Executor; Joseph Gittens 9 June 1752.(signed by mark)
      Witnesses: Cooper Palgreen, William Duke
      Proved 19January 1757, Chas Pinfold.
    Death Abt 1757  Saint Michael, Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1039  Gittens Direct Line from Reunion
    Last Modified 18 Feb 2026 

    Family 1 Thomas Jackman   d. Abt 1721, Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 6 Apr 1719  Saint Michael, Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 4] 
    Children 
    +1. John Jackman,   b. Abt 1720
    Family ID F526  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 18 Feb 2026 

    Family 2 John Gittens,   b. Abt 1699   d. Jan 1752 (Age 53 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1721 
    Children 
    +1. Joseph Gittens,   b. Between 1721-1725   d. 1791, Saint Michael, Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years)
    Family ID F73  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Feb 2026 

  • Sources 
    1. [S1356] Sanders, Joanne MsRae, English Settlers in Barbados . CD-ROM database, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc).

    2. [S700] Barbados Archives, Black Rock Main Rd, Bridgetown, Wills Barbados-Volume 25/23, Will of John Gittens proved January 8, 1752.

    3. [S1357] Research conducted by Pat Stafford, Dec 2008, Mary Gittens, Will dated 9 June 1752, Proved 19 January 1757.

    4. [S1813] FamilySearch, "Barbados, Church Records, 1637-1930".