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Not far east from Newcastle is the hotel Nisbet Plantation Beach Club, and the Newcastle Pottery. In terms of land area, Saint James is the largest in Saint Kitts and Nevis, but it is also one of the least populated, as it is mainly consisting of small communities separated by larger areas of dry scrub .
The parish capital of Saint John Figtree is the settlement known as Church Ground. The parish church, Fig Tree Church, is notable for being the location where the registration of the marriage between young Nevisian plantation family widow Frances Nisbet and Horatio Nelson was carried out, in 1787, when Nelson was still a young sea captain.
Frances was born on the Caribbean island of Nevis in the Lesser Antilles in 1758, and was baptised Frances Herbert Woolward in St. George's Church in May 1761. The Woolwards were members of the colonial elite: her mother, Mary Herbert, was one of three sisters of John Richardson Herbert, a descendant of the fourth Earl of Pembroke, and Mary and John's uncle had been President of the Council of ...
When Admiral Nelson was a young sea captain, he was stationed on Nevis during the mid-1780s. In 1787, Nelson married a young widow who was a Nevis plantation owner's daughter-in-law, Frances (Fanny) Nisbet.
The Eden Brown Estate was a plantation on the island of Nevis in the Caribbean. It is located in Saint James Windward parish. It is now in ruins. The estate is 85 metres above sea level. [1] Supposedly the ghost of Miss Huggins haunts the grounds, "lamenting her sorrow and searching for her lost love," according to Hubbard. [2]
Series E803 (D.O.S. 343), Sheet Nevis, Edition 5 O.S.D. 1984. Reprinted in 1995, published by the Government of the United Kingdom (Ordnance Survey) for the Government of Saint Christopher (St. Kitts) and Nevis. Robinson, Davin & Jennifer Lowery (Editors), 2000. The natural history of the island of Nevis.
Born John Pretor in Chard, Somerset in 1740, his parents were Michael Pretor (d.1744) and Alicia Clarke (d.1759). [1] [2] His mother had a distant cousin, John Frederick Pinney, who had no children, so in 1762 at the age of 22 John Pretor was the key beneficiary of John Frederick’s will, inheriting land in Dorset and several plantations worked by enslaved people on Nevis.
Tobin travelled first to Nevis in 1758, to work in the family plantation business, at Stoney Grove Estate. From 1760 to 1782 he was there at least three times. He went back there in 1808. [1] [4] In 1817, the year of his death, there were 213 enslaved people on the Stoney Grove plantation. [5] In the end Tobin quarrelled with the Pinney family.