Following up on the aftermath of the dueling story of John James Amory in St Kitts, I’ve looked further into the mysterious notation on the island’s 1834 slave registry listing for the West Farm sugar estate owned by Amory. In the final count of the enslaved inhabitants of St Kitts,…
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A number of British newspapers in 1825 printed a story about a duel that took place in St Kitts, between John James Amory and George Forbes. It appears that the dispute was over how they both tried to win the affections of an unnamed lady from Nevis. According to the…
I have written about a brother of my husband’s great grandfather who was a Catholic priest in Northern Ireland. Father Henry Boyle was actually the half brother of Maurice John Macauley, a physician who was educated in Ireland but eventually settled in England. They shared the same mother, but had…
A very interesting document I saw during a recent visit to the St Kitts and Nevis National Archives was a will from the year 1886, written by a widow with a married name that I’ve done extensive research on. Her name was Mary Cannonier (maiden name Delves), a woman of…
I have written quite a bit about the Cannonier family history in St Kitts, Montserrat, and Dominica. This includes a connection between the Cannonier and Chambers family names in St Kitts that I’ve been able to flesh out somewhat recently. There is a St Kitts vital record from 1899 that…
An interesting newspaper article in a September 1839 issue of the St Christopher Gazette and Charibbean Courier reported that a petition had been submitted to the House of Commons in London, by an MP named Sir Stephen Lushington. Lushington (1782-1873) was the Oxford educated son of the chairman of the…
My husband’s great-great-grandfather was Richard Johnson Marshall (about 1845-1922), who was born in Antigua. He was educated there to be a teacher, and settled in St Kitts where he worked as a school master for several decades. He may very well have been the son of enslaved parents, and his…
I have written about the startling discovery that my husband descended (through an out-of-wedlock birth) from the Reverend Roger Kedington (1750-1818), a Cambridge educated clergyman who came from a line of lawyers, clergy, and land owners. Although Roger held a series of clerical appointments in the Anglican church, including a…
My husband’s great-grandfather Burchell Edward Marshall (1873-1951) was the son of a school teacher who became a prosperous businessman and landowner in his native St Kitts. During the first half of the 20th century, he owned a number of sugar cane estates on the island, which was not typical for…
My husband’s great-grandmother was Margaret Johanna Cannonier (1868-1940) of St Kitts. Documenting her family tree back past her father John Henry Cannonier (abt. 1832-1868) has presented a brick wall. There were a number of Cannoniers in St Kitts in the first half of the 19th century, but their relationship to…