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Elizabeth Dunbar

Elizabeth Dunbar

Female Abt 1741 - Yes, date unknown

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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Elizabeth Dunbar was born about 1741; was christened in 1741 (daughter of William (of Machermore) Dunbar and Barbara Warner); and died.

    Notes:

    She died when the roof blew in when she had just born her younger daughter, Mary

    Elizabeth married Oliver Nugent in 1759. Oliver (son of Captain Walter Nugent and Antoinetta de Roux) died in 1797 in Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. Major Robert Skerret (of Machermore) Nugent-Dunbar died in 1846.
    2. Mary Nugent was born after 1759; and died.
    3. Walter Nugent was born after 1759; and died.
    4. Oliver Nugent was born after 1759; and died.
    5. Barbara Nugent was born after 1759; and died.
    6. Antoinetta Nugent was born after 1759; and died.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  William (of Machermore) Dunbar was born about 1717; was christened in 1717 in St John's, Antigua (son of Charles Dunbar); and died.

    Notes:

    Living in Antigua in 1759

    William married Barbara Warner in 1738 in St John's, Antigua. Barbara (daughter of Ashton Warner and Eliza Anne Clarke) was born on 9 May 1720; was christened in 1720; died after 1802. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Barbara Warner was born on 9 May 1720; was christened in 1720 (daughter of Ashton Warner and Eliza Anne Clarke); died after 1802.

    Notes:

    A descenant of Sir Thomas Warner, coloniser of the Leeward Islands, for which he was knighted in 1729

    Died:
    Living 1803

    Children:
    1. Horatio Dunbar was christened on 8 Nov 1740; died on 18 Nov 1740.
    2. 1. Elizabeth Dunbar was born about 1741; was christened in 1741; and died.
    3. Charles Warner (of Machermore) Dunbar died in 1794.
    4. Patrick Dunbar and died.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Charles Dunbar was born after 1721 (son of Alexander (of Machermore) Dunbar and Katherine Hamilton); and died.

    Notes:

    Went to Antigua. He was a council member for the Leeward Islands and Judge in the Court of Chancery and Surveyor General of Customs.

    When his brother died, he was passed over, and Machermore went to his son, William

    Reputed to be 'a good master' (Slave master)

    Children:
    1. 2. William (of Machermore) Dunbar was born about 1717; was christened in 1717 in St John's, Antigua; and died.
    2. Grace Dunbar and died.
    3. Dr John Dunbar died in 1795 in France.

  2. 6.  Ashton Warner was born in 1691 (son of Thomas Warner, son of Sir Thomas Warner); died in 1753.

    Notes:

    Ashton, second brother of Edward Warner, speaker of the house of assembly, and attorney- general for Antigua, born in 1691, and m. 8 April, 1714, Eliza- Anne, (dau. of George Clarke, of Clark's Hill, Antigua, Esq., and relict of Major Samuel Byam,) who died 2 June, 1748. The Hon. Ashton Warner died in Feb. 1752, and was interred in the same vault with his deceased wife, leaving a numerous issue.

    Among the numerous children of the Hon. Ashton Warner, Speaker of the house of assembly, his youngest sons were,
    i. Samuel-Henry, born 11 Dec. 1733, and appointed deputy provost- marshal of Antigua, who, marrying in 1762, was father of the Hon. Samuel Warner, late president of Antigua, and brigadier-general of the militia in that island, and who died in 1838.
    ii. Daniel, treasurer of Antigua, born in 1724, m. 2 Feb. 1746, Re becca, dau. of Thomas Freeman, Esq.s He was killed on board H.M. sloop of war, " Virgin," 25 March, 1760, while defending that vessel from the attack of three French privateers, leaving, among other issue, a son,
    Thomas, born 12 Feb. 1753, and m. in 1790, Dorothy, dau. of the Hon. Francis Ffrye, dying in 1825, at Sevenoaks, co. Kent, left, among other issue, three sons,
    1. Daniel-Francis, rector of Hoo, co. of Kent, born 9 June, 1795, m. in 1818, Sylviana- Maria, dau. of Robert- Walter Vaughan, of the city of Bristol, by whom he has issue nine children.
    2. Thomas-Shirley, stipendiary magistrate of Monserrat, born 24 May, 1797, and m. 9 May, 1825, Rebecca, dau. of the Hon. Henry Hamilton, of the island of Monserrat, by whom he has issue six children.
    3. Samuel- Ashton, rector of St. George's, Antigua, in 1826, born 30 May, 1790, and m. 10 June, 1824, Mary, dau. of Stephen-Ross Willock, of Antigua, Esq., by whom he has six children.

    (Research):If his dates are correct, then those of his ancestors must be wrong.

    Is this him?
    Ashton Warner, Attorney-General of Leeward Islands
    Under his will (dated 06/07/1750 and recorded 15/02/1752), summarised by Vere Langford Oliver, he defined Clarke's estate as not only 110 acres which was 'my late wife's inheritance' but the residence and 100 acres he bought of Samul Byam and the lands called Hunts 'now in dispute between Edwd. Otto Beijer and myself.' He also held Staughtons (purchased by him from Adm. Thomas Mathew and M[ary] A[nn] Burgess, 'called Staughtons or Burgess's or Mathews, also called Clarks') and 'the plantations lately bought called Nantons or Dimsdales.' He left ?1000 to each of his sons and entailed the plantation called Clarkes [and the enslaved people, although they were not specified] to his son Thomas and his heirs male. He left his lands in Barbados, Staughtons and Nantons and Dimsdale 'with cattle and slaves' to be sold for the benefit of his sons (other than Thomas) and daughter Betsy.

    Is this him?
    Ashton married into the Zampty family of Belmont, who were descendants of Sergeant Zampty of the 3rd West India Regiment, which had been raised in Sierra Leone to do service in the Caribbean.

    A descendant?
    Chief Justice of Trinidad. Enslaved people on Laurel Hill and Adelphi were registered in 1834 to the heirs of Ashton Warner. Warner had died c. 1830.

    Ashton Warner, Chief Judge, Trinidad was listed as a subscriber to Charles Shepherd's An Historical Account of the Island of Saint Vincent, published in 1832.

    Will of The Hon Ashton Warner of the Island of Trinidad proved 03/05/1831. The will is very simple, leaving his entire estate to his wife Eliza Jane Warner and then to their children Thornton, Henry, Frederick, Richard Albert and Georgiana Woodford Warner.

    Ashton married Eliza Anne Clarke on 8 Apr 1714. Eliza (daughter of George Clarke) was born before 1714; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  3. 7.  Eliza Anne Clarke was born before 1714 (daughter of George Clarke); and died.
    Children:
    1. 3. Barbara Warner was born on 9 May 1720; was christened in 1720; died after 1802.
    2. Numerous children Warner


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Alexander (of Machermore) Dunbar (son of Patrick (of Machermore) Dunbar and McDowell); died about 1749.

    Alexander married Katherine Hamilton before 1716. Katherine (daughter of John (of Bardarroch) Hamilton) and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Katherine Hamilton (daughter of John (of Bardarroch) Hamilton); and died.
    Children:
    1. 4. Charles Dunbar was born after 1721; and died.
    2. Patrick (of Machermore) Dunbar died in 1750.
    3. William Dunbar was born before 1716; and died.

  3. 12.  Thomas Warner was born in 1695 (son of Col Philip Warner and Henrietta Ashton); and died.

    Notes:

    of 'The Folly' and Savannah Plantations

    (Research):If the dates for his son, Ashton, are correct, then his must be wrong

    Children:
    1. 6. Ashton Warner was born in 1691; died in 1753.

  4. 14.  George Clarke

    Notes:

    of Clark's Hill, Antigua

    According to Vere Langford Oliver, Joseph Warner of Hatton Street (1717-1801) settled Clarke's Hill on his eldest son William in 1786 and was the owner of Hatton Garden on Dominica.

    Children:
    1. 7. Eliza Anne Clarke was born before 1714; and died.



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