Mary Angelica Cranstoun of Antigua
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Mary spent her entire life living with her brother Langford Selly Cranstoun and his family. Will Of Mary Angelica Cranstoun She is a spinster of Nevis Street, died 24 March, 1933. She leaves her share and interest in land in High Street to her sister in law Evelina Cranstoun, with the exception of legacies to nephew Langford Duer Cranstoun (L5) and Eugene Edwards (L2) (she was a long time family servant). Her share and interest in property at Nevis and Cross Streets to Evelina Cranstoun, Arthur Herbert Cranstoun, Edith Kelsick (nee Cranstoun), and Florence Ethel Cranstoun, as tenants in common. Everything else to Arthur Herbert Cranstoun, nephew, who was her executor. Arthur Herbert Cranstoun died the year before in 1932 and unfortunately, Mary Angelica Cranstoun died intestate and her Will was meaningless. Of all the people in the family, I would have loved to have been able to talk with her as she is the one person who would have known all members of our family. This points out why it is extremely important to speak with the old members of the family because once they're gone so is all the family knowledge they possess. Why Mary Angelica Cranstoun Never Married Mary Angelica Cranstoun was engaged to a worker who was a Plantation Foreman on, it is believed, the Cassada Gardens Plantation. Every Friday he would go to town to go to the bank to get money to pay the workers. One Friday two or three "coolies" (Chinese workers) hid in ambush of him on his way home. They jumped him and hit him in the head and killed him and took the money. They were caught and punished by death. Evelina Gibbons Harper Cranstoun
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Mary Angelica Cranstoun was born in 1847 in Antigua, British West Indies and the daughter of 