Oliver Nugent, Esq.

Walter and Antoinetta’s heir, Oliver, was born c.1737. He inherited land from both his parents and is credited with having built Clare Hall on ‘Nugents’ 500 acre estate. He had one son and two daughters (Robert, Mary, Barbara) by his first marriage, to Elizabeth Dunbar, and two sons and one daughter (Nicholas, Christine, John) by his second marriage to Bridget Lynch. He became a member of the council – the first indication of a Nugent taking a role in governing the island – before moving to nearby Dominica in 1773, being declared bankrupt in 1777. He died in North America in 1802.

Of Oliver’s children, only Robert, the eldest child of his first marriage, and Nicholas, the eldest child of his second marriage, had any offspring of their own. Robert added Dunbar to his surname, becoming Robert Nugent-Dunbar, apparently as a condition to inherit lands from his mother at Marchermore, Kircudbrightshire, south west Scotland.

The Nugent succession passed to Oliver’s son, Nicholas, whose life is chronicled on a separate page. Nicholas bought or inherited back the Nugent/Skerrett estates from his cousin, John Lynch, Antoinetta Skerrett’s nephew – see Nugent Estates and Homes.

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