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Alexander Purcell Anderson

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1840

Biography

MD, dying of Hampden [sic] House Brighton in 1840. Sometime before 1821, he had sold for 拢1921 to his brother James Anderson of New City Chambers (q.v.) part of a 拢4000 mortgage over Brewers Bay estate [and the enslaved people attached to it] owed by their deceased brother Andrew Anderson. He was presumably a namesake of John Purcell of Tortola.

Will of Alexander Purcell Anderson doctor of Medicine of Brighton proved 28/12/1840. The beneficiaries were his nieces Caroline and Anna Anderson (each of whom q.v.).

Sources

PROB 11/1937/89.

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Spouse

Mary Cathcart Pycroft

Associated Estates (1)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

SD - Association Start Date
SY - Association Start Year
EA - Earliest Known Association
ED - Association End Date
EY - Association End Year
LA - Latest Known Association

1821 [EA] - 1821 [LA] → Mortgage Holder

Brewers Bay [ Virgin Islands ]

In his will made in 1821, James Anderson said that the had previously purchased for 拢1921 from his brother Alexander Purcell Anderson part of the mortgage the two held over their brother Andrew Anderson's Brewers Bay estate on Tortola.