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Nicholas Lawes (1652 - 1731)

Sir Nicholas Lawes
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Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
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Husband of — married 20 May 1680 (to 10 Feb 1685) in Half Way Tree, Saint Andrew, Jamaicamap
Husband of — married 23 May 1685 (to 7 Mar 1692) in Jamaicamap
Husband of — married 2 Jul 1693 (to 11 Nov 1694) in Jamaicamap
Husband of — married 11 Jun 1696 (to 20 Apr 1707) in Jamaicamap
Husband of — married 22 Sep 1715 (to 26 Oct 1725) in Westminster St James, Middlesex, Englandmap
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Died at about age 79 [location unknown]
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Biography

Nicholas was born in 1652.

He married 5 times, each time to a widow.[1]

In Jamaica on the 20th of May 1680 he married Elizabeth (Coale) Potter, widow of John Potter.[2] She was mother of his daughter, Amy, baptised on the 10th of November 1681[3] and a second daughter, Frances, who died shortly after birth in 1684.[4] Elizabeth died in 1685 and was buried on the 10th of February.[5]

His second wife was Frances Carter whom he married on the 23rd of May 1685.[6] (Note Caribbeana gives a date of marriage as 1684 before the burial date of his first wife). She died in March 1692/3.[7]

Nicholas' third wife was Elizabeth (Modyford) Barry, married on the 2nd of July 1693.[8] Her gravestone stated that she died on the 11th of November 1694, in her thirtieth year.[9] Her burial was recorded on the 12th.[10]

Nicholas married Susanna Bernard, his fourth wife, on the 11th of Jun 1696 and they had two sons.[11]

  • James Lawes born 26 Feb baptised 11 Jun 1697.[12][13]
  • Temple Lawes baptised 26 Dec 1699[14]

The family returned to England and lived in Isleworth where Susanna died on 20 April 1707.

His 5th wife was Elizabeth (Lawley) Cotton.

Appointed governor of Jamaica in 1717 he was knighted at Hampton Court. [15]

It was reported that on his marriage to Susanna, Nicholas received the estate of Temple Hall in Jamaica, from Susanna's father Thomas Temple.[16] Nicholas developed the estate and introduced the first coffee to be grown in Jamaica.

He passed away in 1731.

Sources

  1. ↑ Extract from Caribbeana vol V. jamaicanfamilysearch
  2. ↑ Marriage 20 May 1680. Image on Familysearch
  3. ↑ "Jamaica, Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VHDC-JGH : 23 May 2022), Ayme Law, 1681.
  4. ↑ "Jamaica, Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VHDC-6QL : 23 May 2022), Laws, 1684.
  5. ↑ Burial 10 Feb 1684. Image on Familysearch
  6. ↑ Marriage 23 May 1685. Image on Familysearch
  7. ↑ Burial 7 March 1692. Image on Familysearch
  8. ↑ Marriage 2 July 1693. Image onFamilysearch
  9. ↑ Lawrence-Archer, J.H., Monumental Inscriptions of the British West Indies. 1875 p.55 archive.org
  10. ↑ "Jamaica, Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:C8FW-BR6Z : 3 February 2022), Elizabeth Law, 1694.
  11. ↑ "Jamaica, Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:D9NN-TDPZ : 23 May 2022), Nicholas Lawes, 1696.
  12. ↑ Secondary sources from parish register jamaicanfamilysearch
  13. ↑ "Jamaica, Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VHDC-4TH : 23 May 2022), James Lane, 1697. Note misspelt names
  14. ↑ "Jamaica, Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VHDC-KBL : 23 May 2022), Temple Laws, 1699.
  15. ↑ The Knights of England. A complete record from the earliest time to the present day of the knights of all the orders of chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of knights bachelors, incorporating a complete list of knights bachelors dubbed in Ireland by Shaw, William Arthur, 1865-1943; Burtchaell, George Dames, 1853-1921 Page 281
  16. ↑ Reference to "Thomas Temple, of Frankton, Warwickshire, and Temple Hall, in St. Andrew". Cundall, Frank, Historic Jamaica: With fifty-two illustrations, 1915. p.204 archive.org




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