1814 - 1893
With his brother John Gittens jun. (q.v.), awarded the compensation for two enslaved people in Barbados.
Matriculated Trinity Oxford 30/10/1834 aged 20, 2nd son John of Barbados.
Rev. George Duncan Gittens died in Barbados in 1893.
Barbados no. 5312. T71/900 Sons of Rev John Hamlet Gittens, who claimed for them thro' atty John Wood.
Ancestry.com, Oxford University Alumni, 1500-1886 [database online].
National Probate Calendar 1903 shows the grant of administration and the reswearing of his estate (at £164 7s 3d).
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Absentee?
Transatlantic
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University
Oxford (Trinity) [1834]
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Occupation
Clergyman
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£67 19s 4d
Awardee
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Son → Father
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Brothers
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1761 - ????
"Free quadroon woman" and mother of eleven children; independently wealthy, perhaps through legacies left her by her partners James Tierney (died 1784) and Ebenezer Robertson (died 1825).
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2026
CITING THIS RECORD:
'George Duncan Gittens', Legacies of
British Slavery database, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/41350
[accessed 4th April 2026].
