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Benjamin Gittens

Male Bef 1699 - Bef 1710  (< 11 years)

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  • Name Benjamin Gittens  [1, 2, 3] 
    Birth Bef 1699 
    Baptism 19 Apr 1699  Saint Philip, Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    Gender Male 
    Baptism Memo: (null)
    This is the Family Search Link to the original record retrieved in the Outwit Hub Scrape:
    URL Reference: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XLJT-ZV9
    Source Film Number: 1157934  [3] 
    Death Bef 1710 
    • Dec 31, 2010
      Benjamin was not mentioned in his father's will so the assumption made is that benjamin had died before 1710.
    Person ID I215  Gittens Direct Line from Reunion
    Last Modified 19 Nov 2022 

    Father Isaak Gittens (Gething),   b. Abt 1650   d. Abt 1713, Saint Philip, Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 63 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Chapman,   b. Abt 1668, Saint Philip, Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Abt 1685  Saint Philip, Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    • hh E-mail July 10, 2009

      Cliff, the Will of Matthew Chapman below, seems to indicate fairly clearly that his daughter Elizabeth married Isaac Gittens. This is why I have Isaac married to two Elizabeths. Perhaps the unknown woman, aged 60, was the mother of Ann Gittens nee Cook.

      By the way,I find it interesting that Isaac named two sons John, both of whom were alive when he made his Will . The first, whom I call John the Elder, seems to have left Barbados some time before 1710 . Perhaps he is the common ancestor of the Githens family that Professor Sherwood Githens was looking for in Barbados in 1977.
      Isaac's second son, whom I call John the Younger, also went to Philadelphia but died soon after arrival.

      Joanne McRee Sanders, Barbados Wills Vol.2, CHAPMAN, Mathew of Bdos & Ireland. St. Philips Parish, 16 Apr 1693, RB6/2, p.1.
      Wf Isabellah Chapman - plantation at the Six Cross Path, wf is with ch; chn Benjamin Chapman, Joseph Chapman, Juliann Chapman; 5 eldest daus Eliliza Gitte...
    Family ID F610  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S363] English Settlers in Barbados, 1637-1800, (Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc.).

    2. [S206] Sanders, Joanne MsRae, English Settlers in Barbados . CD-ROM database, (Name: Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc, n.d.;), Page 284.

    3. [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.

    4. [S3563] Sanders, Joanne MsRae, English Settlers in Barbados . CD-ROM database, (Name: Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc, n.d.;), Page 58.