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  • Title Caribbean Family History 
    Source ID S1615 
    Text The tombstones.bb site was redesigned and relaunched as Caribbean Family History in October 2012.

    GITTENS, JOHN To the memory of The Honourable JOHN GITTENS (12 lines)He quitted this fcene of Mortality Feby 1768 Aged 55 years (7 lines)Erected by his son JOSHUA GITTENS GITTENS, JOHN Birth: 1713--Death: 1768-Feb-25 Notes: Oliver V.L, Monumental Inscriptions:Tombstones of the Island of Barbados, pg158His epitaph in the "G.M."p.239 describes him as Chief Judge of St. Michaels, M. for St.Philipsparish, Col. of the Windward Reg. of Horse & J.P., d. 25 Feb. 1768aged 50. John G. was a Quaker here in 1668 (Besse,11.,281)Destroyed infire of 19772008: 
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    Honourable John Gittens, Colonel