Early Life
Walter Nisbet was born in Nevis in the West Indies on the 3
rd January 1745, the son of
Walter Nisbet and
Mary Webbe.
Career
Walter became the manager of the Nevis estates of the Stapleton family after his father died (his father had been manager from about 1736 to 1765). Walter's brother Josiah was the plantation doctor. Incidentally, Josiah's widow went on to marry Lord Horatio Nelson.
In terms of the ownership of the
New River plantation on Nevis; the earliest owner I can identify seems to have been
Josiah Webbe, the maternal grandfather of Walter. I think Josiah had no sons, and so passed on the New River estate to his son-in-law William Maynard, who had married Josiah's daughter (and Walter's aunt) Frances Webbe in 1737. William Maynard then mortgaged the estate against loans from his son-in-law William Blomberg (husband of his daughter Anne Maynard who subsequently went on to marry Walter Nisbet of this page). These mortgages effectively transferred a share in the estates to Walter Nisbet.
Family Life
Walter Nisbet first married Anne Blomberg
1 (her maiden name was Maynard - she was his cousin), but divorced her in 1783 for committing adultery with a man called Thomas Totty
2. He subsequently married
Anne Parry (daughter of Robert Parry of Plasnewydd and Llwyn-on) on the 19
th of April 1784 in St Marylebone, London. The witnesses at the wedding were Paul Parry (Anne's brother) and Charlotte Edwin. They had six children:
- Caroline, born c. 1787 and who did not marry
- Walter, born c. 1788 of the Bengal Civil Service; died 1833
- Josiah, born c. 1790 and who married Rachael Marjoribanks, eldest daughter of Sir John Marjoribanks
- Emilia, born 1791 and who married Rev. C M Mount, prebendary of Wells
- Robert Parry, b. 1793 and who married firstly Clara-Amelia Harriott and had issue and subsequently Elizabeth Greene
- Harry, b. 1794 and who married Anne Harriet Curtis-Hayward of Quedgely House, Gloucestershire
Death
Walter died on the 8
th December 1797 at the Mount Pleasant sugar estate on Nevis. His wife Anne's will was very concerned with supporting their eldest daughter Caroline, who Anne feared could be left destitute after her (Anne's) death.
Footnotes
[1]
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146643697; Anne was born Anne Maynard and was the daughter of Frances Webbe and William Maynard. This made her Walter's cousin, through his mother Mary Webbe who was Anne's aunt. Anne first married William Blomberg; he died and she secondly married Walter Nisbet.
[2]
http://sites.rootsweb.com/~nisbet/Nisbet%20branches/Nisbet%20of%20Ladytoun%20and%20Carfin%20jan%2029%202010.pdf