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Isaac Gittens

Male Abt 1739 - 1819  (80 years)

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  • Name Isaac Gittens  [1, 2] 
    Birth Abt 1739  [3, 4, 5] 
    Gender Male 
    Property 1819  Gooding Plantation, St. Phillip Parish, Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    • Place called Gooding, 31 1/2 acres and buildngs
    Property 1819  Goring Plantation, St. Philip, Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    • Place called Gorings, 11 3/4 acres, buildings and 11 slaves.
    Death 1819  Saint Philip, Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    Burial 2 May 1819  St. Philip Church Cemetary, Saint Philip, Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location  [8, 9] 
    Wills 17 May 1819  Saint Philip, Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    • written 29 Apr 1819 and proven
      1819, [RB4/62/26] Original proved will. Isaac Gittens of the parish of St. Philip. …my just debts and funeral expenses to be paid… Item.…to my beloved daughter Mehetabel Roach, widow of Joseph Roach…Negro slaves being fourteen in number…James and Will…Nancy Dolly andRosetta…Henry Nelson and Murrah Francis…Mandah Susan Kitty CharlottePolly Rose and Eliza… Item. …to my beloved wife Ann Gittens for and during her natural life…my place commonly called Gorings containing eleven acres and three quarters of an acre of land…together with the buildings thereon…slaves being eleven in number…Peter Sammy Sampson and Tom…Prudence and Marca…George and Phill…Kitty Belle and Easter….also all and every my household furniture, plate…and…my house cattle and livestock…after her decease I give the aforesaid household furniture plate…horse cattle and livestock unto Sarah Ann Gittens and Elizabeth Gittens and the aforesaid slaves after the death of my beloved wife with the eleven acres and three quarters of land…equally divided among my children Isaac Gittens Robert Thomas Gittens Mehetabel Roach Sarah Ann Gittens Elizabeth Gittens Frances Armstrong wife of Joseph Armstrong and Mary Sample wife of James Sample… Item.…my place commonly called Gooding with thirty one acres and a half of land …with the buildings there on be sold…and the money or monies…together with my crop or crops of cotton and aloes…to my daughter Mary Sample…£1000…to my son Isaac Gittens…£300…and my granddaughter Martha Martindale…£200…to my grand daughter Rebecca Catherine Oxley…£200…my grandson Samuel Morrison Evans when he shall attain the age of eighteen years …£300…should he depart his life…to my granddaughter Martha Lyder Gibson £200…my estate…to my aforesaid children Isaac Gittens Robert Thomas Gittens Mehetabel Roach Sarah Ann Gittens Elizabeth Gittens Frances Armstrong and Mary Sample…share and share alike… Executors. Ann Gittens, my esteemed friend Abraham Roderick Brandon Esquire. 29 April 1819.
      Witnesses; Thomas Briggs,Rich R. Austin, Edward Kirton, R. Greenidge. Given at GovernmentHouse, 17 May 1819.
    Property 29 May 1819  Gooding Plantation, St. Phillip Parish, Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    • The place Goodings in St Phillips containing 31 1/2 Ac of prime cane land, the property of the late Mr. Isaac Gittens, Senior deceased was put up for sale
    Alt. Death 1 May 1820  Saint Philip, Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 
    Person ID I196  Gittens Direct Line from Reunion
    Last Modified 5 Nov 2023 

    Father Benjamin Gittens,   b. Abt 1716   d. 1743, Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 27 years) 
    Mother Frances,   b. Abt 1716   d. Aft 1743 (Age > 28 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1736 
    • Estimated on baptism of their son. CCG
    Family ID F95  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Father Benjamin Gittens,   b. Abt 1716   d. 1743, Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 27 years) 
    Marriage Bef 1 May 1761 
    Family ID F2007  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Ann Murphy,   b. Abt 1740   d. 14 Feb 1820, Saint Philip, Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years) 
    Marriage 1 May 1761  Saint Philip, Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Children 
    +1. Isaac Gittens,   b. Abt 1761
    +2. Robert Thomas Gittens,   b. Abt 1763, Saint Philip, Barbados Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Aug 1841 (Age 78 years)
     3. Benjamin Gittens, Esq,   b. Abt 1767   d. 12 Jun 1850, Roebuck, Bridgetown, Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years)
     4. Sarah Ann Gittens, Spinster,   b. 1771   d. 1830, Saint Michael, Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 59 years)
    +5. Mehetabel Gittens,   b. Abt 1771
     6. Elizabeth Gittens, Spinster,   b. Abt 1776   d. 1845, Saint Michael, Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years)
    +7. Ann Christian Gittens,   b. 17 Jul 1778, Saint Philip, Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location
    +8. Frances Gittens,   c. 2 Sep 1781, Saint Philip, Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location
    >9. Mary Gittens,   b. Abt 1791, Saint Philip, Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F90  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 26 Oct 2023 

  • Sources 
    1. [S710] FamilySearch, Barbados Church Records, 1637-1887, database with images.

    2. [S754] Barbados Archives.

    3. [S755] Major Henry Albert Thorne, Monumental Inscriptions of Barbados collected on the spot.

    4. [S135] "Barbados Marriages, 1591”-1905, Index” database, Citing collections of the Genealogy Socity of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah., accessed 25 Nov 2012); This is a batch update of data scraped using OutWit Hub.

    5. [S131] "Caribbean Births and Baptisms 1590 -1928, index," database, Genealogical Society of Utah. Caribbean Births and Baptisms. Index based on data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah., accessed 4 Dec 2012); Data scraped using Outwit Hub from the Family Search Site.

    6. [S758] Pat Stafford, Gittens Wills, 1729-1860, (Date: Dec 2008;).

    7. [S756] Pat Stafford, Gittens Wills, 1729-1860, (Date: Dec 2008;).

    8. [S757] Caribbean Family History.

    9. [S214] Family History Centre Surrey, Family History Centre Surrey, Visit November 17, 2009 Filim 11579355 RL1/25 page 120 Saint Philip Burials.

    10. [S259] The Journal of the Barbados Museum & Historical Society, JBMHS, Volume XVIII - page 51.

    11. [S759] Major Henry Albert Thorne, Monumental Inscriptions of Barbados collected on the spot.