Born about 1645. Buried on April 3, 1729.
The following inscription is from Thomas's monument:
"This monument | is erected in memory of | Majr Genl
Thomas Handasyd | who for many years was | Governor
of Jamaica | He died the 26th March 1729 | in the 85th
year of his age | much lamented | having been the best
of fathers | and the best of friends |"
The following quote found at:
http://coquetdaleanglican.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/The-Handasyd-Chalice.pdf
From the Handasyd Chalice -
The year was 1713 and a year earlier Gerard’s younger brother Thomas had returned from Jamaica. But he hadn’t been there for a holiday - he’d been there for eleven years.
The Coquetdale farmer was baptised Gerard Hangingshaw at Holystone in 1640 and, as the eldest son, had inherited the family estate at Harehaugh on the Coquet from his father, also named Gerard. His baptism record does not survive – the midseventeenth century was such a tempestuous time it is a wonder that any did: the parish registers of Holystone with Alwinton date from 1696. Fire, plague, regicide and revolution was the backdrop to the brothers’ upbringing, although to a family raised in the border marches with tales of the reivers handed down from their grandfather, maybe that didn’t faze them too much. You needed to be made of stern stuff just to survive.
The brothers’ grandfather Roger Hangingshaw signed his will on the 9th January 1616, leaving the Harehaugh estate to Gerard, his eldest son, and ‘burgages’ in Rothbury to his three other sons. In those days, typically, the eldest son would inherit the family seat, the second son would go into the army, the third into the church.
Biography provided by: Chris Guinotte (50231615)
The following inscription is from Thomas's monument:
"This monument | is erected in memory of | Majr Genl
Thomas Handasyd | who for many years was | Governor
of Jamaica | He died the 26th March 1729 | in the 85th
year of his age | much lamented | having been the best
of fathers | and the best of friends |"
The following quote found at:
http://coquetdaleanglican.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/The-Handasyd-Chalice.pdf
From the Handasyd Chalice -
The year was 1713 and a year earlier Gerard’s younger brother Thomas had returned from Jamaica. But he hadn’t been there for a holiday - he’d been there for eleven years.
The Coquetdale farmer was baptised Gerard Hangingshaw at Holystone in 1640 and, as the eldest son, had inherited the family estate at Harehaugh on the Coquet from his father, also named Gerard. His baptism record does not survive – the midseventeenth century was such a tempestuous time it is a wonder that any did: the parish registers of Holystone with Alwinton date from 1696. Fire, plague, regicide and revolution was the backdrop to the brothers’ upbringing, although to a family raised in the border marches with tales of the reivers handed down from their grandfather, maybe that didn’t faze them too much. You needed to be made of stern stuff just to survive.
The brothers’ grandfather Roger Hangingshaw signed his will on the 9th January 1616, leaving the Harehaugh estate to Gerard, his eldest son, and ‘burgages’ in Rothbury to his three other sons. In those days, typically, the eldest son would inherit the family seat, the second son would go into the army, the third into the church.
Biography provided by: Chris Guinotte (50231615)
Born about 1645. Buried on April 3, 1729.
The following inscription is from Thomas's monument:
"This monument | is erected in memory of | Majr Genl
Thomas Handasyd | who for many years was | Governor
of Jamaica | He died the 26th March 1729 | in the 85th
year of his age | much lamented | having been the best
of fathers | and the best of friends |"
The following quote found at:
http://coquetdaleanglican.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/The-Handasyd-Chalice.pdf
From the Handasyd Chalice -
The year was 1713 and a year earlier Gerard’s younger brother Thomas had returned from Jamaica. But he hadn’t been there for a holiday - he’d been there for eleven years.
The Coquetdale farmer was baptised Gerard Hangingshaw at Holystone in 1640 and, as the eldest son, had inherited the family estate at Harehaugh on the Coquet from his father, also named Gerard. His baptism record does not survive – the midseventeenth century was such a tempestuous time it is a wonder that any did: the parish registers of Holystone with Alwinton date from 1696. Fire, plague, regicide and revolution was the backdrop to the brothers’ upbringing, although to a family raised in the border marches with tales of the reivers handed down from their grandfather, maybe that didn’t faze them too much. You needed to be made of stern stuff just to survive.
The brothers’ grandfather Roger Hangingshaw signed his will on the 9th January 1616, leaving the Harehaugh estate to Gerard, his eldest son, and ‘burgages’ in Rothbury to his three other sons. In those days, typically, the eldest son would inherit the family seat, the second son would go into the army, the third into the church.
Biography provided by: Chris Guinotte (50231615)
The following inscription is from Thomas's monument:
"This monument | is erected in memory of | Majr Genl
Thomas Handasyd | who for many years was | Governor
of Jamaica | He died the 26th March 1729 | in the 85th
year of his age | much lamented | having been the best
of fathers | and the best of friends |"
The following quote found at:
http://coquetdaleanglican.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/The-Handasyd-Chalice.pdf
From the Handasyd Chalice -
The year was 1713 and a year earlier Gerard’s younger brother Thomas had returned from Jamaica. But he hadn’t been there for a holiday - he’d been there for eleven years.
The Coquetdale farmer was baptised Gerard Hangingshaw at Holystone in 1640 and, as the eldest son, had inherited the family estate at Harehaugh on the Coquet from his father, also named Gerard. His baptism record does not survive – the midseventeenth century was such a tempestuous time it is a wonder that any did: the parish registers of Holystone with Alwinton date from 1696. Fire, plague, regicide and revolution was the backdrop to the brothers’ upbringing, although to a family raised in the border marches with tales of the reivers handed down from their grandfather, maybe that didn’t faze them too much. You needed to be made of stern stuff just to survive.
The brothers’ grandfather Roger Hangingshaw signed his will on the 9th January 1616, leaving the Harehaugh estate to Gerard, his eldest son, and ‘burgages’ in Rothbury to his three other sons. In those days, typically, the eldest son would inherit the family seat, the second son would go into the army, the third into the church.
Biography provided by: Chris Guinotte (50231615)
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