Johnson / Bryans Families

Tracing the ancestry of Pamela Murdoch Bryans and Maurice Alan Johnson

Plantation Manager

Abt 1707 - 1765 (~ 58 years)

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Name Walter Nisbet

Relationship with Marion Murdoch Johnson

Gender Male

Born Abt 1707

Baptism 19 Jul 1707 Dalziel, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Kingdom of Great Britain [1, 2]

Note that Miscellanea Genealogica gives his date of birth (not baptism) as 19 July 1706 - this looks like an error, given the baptismal record.

Occupation Plantation Manager

Died 15 Jun 1765 Nevis, Leeward Islands [3]

Siblings 12 Siblings

	1. Archibald Nisbet, of Carphin b. 1701
	2. Charles Nisbet b. Abt Dec 1702
	3. James Nisbet b. Abt Mar 1704
	4. Anne Nisbet b. Abt Jun 1705 d. 30 Jul 1770 (Age ~ 65 years)
	5. Eupham Anna Nisbet b. Abt Dec 1707 d. 30 Jul 1750 (Age ~ 42 years)
	6. Emilia Nisbet b. Abt Feb 1709
	7. Robert Nisbet b. Abt Oct 1712 d. 29 Sep 1740 (Age ~ 27 years)
	8. John Nisbet b. Between 1713 and 1721 d. Jun 1753 (Age ~ 40 years)
	9. William Nisbet b. Between 1713 and 1721 d. May 1797 (Age ~ 84 years)
	10. Katharine Nisbet b. Between 1713 and 1721
	11. Elizabeth Nisbet b. Between 1713 and 1721 d. 9 May 1748 (Age ~ 35 years)
	12. Margaret Nisbet b. Between 1713 and 1721

Last Modified 24 Jan 2021

Father	Archibald Nisbet, of Carphin b. Abt Feb 1673 d. 1739 (Age ~ 65 years)
Mother	Emilia Stewart b. Between 1673 and 1680 d. Aft 1717 (Age ~ 45 years)
Married	30 Jan 1701 [3, 4, 5]

Wife Mary Webbe
b. Between 24 Jan 1723 and 24 Jan 1724
d. 24 Jan 1753 (Age ~ 30 years)

Married 1743 [3]

Age at Marriage He was 36, she was 19

Children

	1. Walter Nisbet b. 3 Jan 1745, Nevis, Leeward Islands d. 8 Dec 1797, Mount Pleasant, Nevis, Leeward Islands (Age 52 years)
	2. Anne Nisbet b. 14 Feb 1746 d. 7 Jul 1823, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom (Age 77 years)
	3. Josiah Nisbet b. 7 Aug 1747 d. 5 Oct 1781 (Age 34 years)
	4. James Webbe Nisbet b. 23 Aug 1749
	5. Mary Emelia Nisbet b. 4 Feb 1752 d. 22 Feb 1830, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom (Age 78 years)

Last Modified 23 Apr 2020

Notes

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 first married Anne Blomberg¹ (her maiden name was Maynard - she was his cousin), but divorced her in 1783 for committing adultery with a man called Thomas Totty². He subsequently married Anne Parry (daughter of Robert Parry of Plasnewydd and Llwyn-on) in Wales 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:
1. Caroline, born c. 1787 and who did not marry
2. Walter, born c. 1788 of the Bengal Civil Service; died 1833
3. Josiah, born c. 1790 and who married Rachael Marjoribanks, eldest daughter of Sir John Marjoribanks
4. Emilia, born 1791 and who married Rev. C M Mount, prebendary of Wells
5. Robert Parry, b. 1793 and who married firstly Clara-Amelia Harriott with issue, and subsequently Elizabeth Greene
6. 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

Event Map

Baptism - 19 Jul 1707 - Dalziel, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Kingdom of Great Britain

Died - 15 Jun 1765 - Nevis, Leeward Islands

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Sources

[S0279] Old Parish Registers - Births, National Records of Scotland, (scotlandspeople.gov.uk), Walter Nisbet; 639/10 23 Dalziel, 1707.
The record is very hard to make out: so much so that I'm not sure how the original indexer managed to make out that this is Walter. With some inspiration, the record reads as follows:
Baptised W son of Arch Nisbet of Carfin [19 July 1707]

Why the name is abbreviated to W I'm not sure, because adjacent records on that page give the full names (and of the fathers too).
[S0258] Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950, FamilySearch, (familysearch.org), Walter Nisbit; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTLJ-RM4 : 11 February 2020), Walter Nisbit, 1707., 19 Jul 1707.
[S0159] Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, Nisbet of Carfin; Series 5, Volume 2, Pages 44-52.
[S0380] Old Parish Registers - Marriages, National Records of Scotland, (scotlandspeople.gov.uk), Nisbet / Stewart; 685/3 140 51 Canongate, Page 51, 30 Jan 1701.
[S0289] History of the Island of Antigua, The, Vere Langford Oliver, (1894, London), Volume 3, Page 443.

Walter Nisbet, of Nevis