Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 2 (of 2): A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present dayLanaghan, Mrs.
History
Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 2 (of 2): A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day
Lanaghan, Mrs.
Antigua -- Description and travel; Antigua -- History
Thomas, inherited the family estates of the Folly and Savannah,
m. Jane, dau. of — Walrond, of Antigua, Esq., by whom he had
issue four sons and one dau. Col. Thomas Warner, dying in 1695,
was buried at St Paul’s, Antigua, 11 Nov. of that year, and was
succeeded in his estates by his eldest son,
i. Edward, a colonel in the army, and member of the Council for
the Island of Antigua; m. Elizabeth, dau. of the Hon. Richard
Scott, (one of King William III.’s counsellors for Barbados,)
by whom he had (among other issue) a son and heir,
Richard-Scott, who dying a minor, at Eltham, in Kent, during
the lifetime of his father, his three surviving sisters
became the co-heirs of the family property—viz.,
1. Grace, born at Cobb’s Crop, Antigua, 13 Oct. 1717, died 31
May, 1754; m. 1st, (in 1735,) Samuel Byam, Esq., the son of
Major S. Byam, and grandson of Col. Willoughby Byam; and
2ndly, William Fauquier, Esq., F.R.S. By her first husband
(buried at St. George’s, Antigua, 14 Jan. 1738) she had
issue one son and one dau.,
1. Samuel, who died 19 Nov. 1761, three weeks before the
day appointed for his marriage, when his sister,
2. Phillis, became his heir.
By her second husband (buried at Eltham, 21 Dec. 1788,
aged 80) she had, among other issue,
3. Thomas Fauquier, who died in 1827.
4. Georgiana, m. 25 May, 1787, George Venables Lord Vernon.
2. Elizabeth-Anne, born in 1718, and m. in 1739, to Godschall
Johnson, of Bloomsbury-square, Esq., (which family are now
in possession of the Warner estates of Savannah and
Folly,[74]) by whom she had issue.
3. Jane, born at Christ’s Church, Barbados, in 172O, m. at
St. John’s, Antigua, 2 Jan. 1738, to the Hon. and Rev.
Francis Byam, rector of St John’s, and counsellor of that
island, by whom she had a son, the Hon. Edward Byam,
president of Antigua for nearly fifty years, born at St.
John’s, in 1740, who, failing of male issue, is now
represented by his four granddaughters, i. Adelaid; ii.
Anne-Byam; iii. Jane-Elizabeth; iv. Maria-Catherine,
co-heirs of the barony of Lee de Spenser.
ii. Ashton, (second brother of Edward Warner, whose lineage is
traced above,) 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.
iii. Henry, (third son of Col. Thomas Warner,) clerk of the
assembly, Antigua, in 1724, born in 1693, and buried at the
family vault on the Savannah Estate, in that island, in 1731,
in the 39th year of his age.
iv. Philip, baptized at St Paul’s, Antigua, and mentioned in
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