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Looking for information about Thomas Fairbairn (possibly Thomas James Alexander Brown Fairbairn) who married Mary Huggins 16 Sept 1807 in St. Vincent according to the register 1765-1820 page 132/260 https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP1013-1-4/.
Thomas seems to have been associated with Mr Gordon's estate Fairhall or Bentinck, in that in 1834 a Thomas Fairbairn attested to the report of 246 enslaved people on the property of James A. Gordon (possibly James Brebner Gordon). Fairhall was owned by James's Brebner Gordon's son James Gordon at the time of the slave register). Found this connection in documents of the Centre for study of the Legacies of British Slavery https://ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/3644
I believe Thomas Fairbairn's father was a Colonel Thomas Fairbairn who died 4 Nov 1808 and was buried at Fairhall- per page 235/260 of the St. Vincent Marriage, Baptism and Burial Registry 1765-1820.
Looking at Fairhall I found mention of Thomas Fairbairn as a 'grantee' of Mr.Gordon's estate, land in the Parish of St.George under Governor Bentinck. gregg784.com/2017/04/30/manuscript-collection/?print=pdf Document held in Bentinck Collection at Hamilton College New York)

Thomas's wife Mary Huggins was, I believe, the daughter of James Huggins (1752-1837) and sister of Joseph Stanley Huggins. Note one of Joseph's sons was Thomas Fairbairn Huggins presumably after his brother-in-law.
I also note James Huggins wife Mary (Evans) Huggins who died in 1811 left  slaves to her daughter Mary Fairbairn  https://eap.bl.uk/search?query=St.Vincent, Digitization of Wills, Deed Books and Powers of Attorney for St.Vincent 1785-1865. The Wills of 1806-1811 page 357/370.)

I am linking these pieces - hoping for others researching Fairbairn or Huggins have more information.

I note Mary Huggins also leaves slaves to 7 other children - 6 match my tree but she names Ann LaCroix - I have an Amy Huggins (1786-1861) in my tree and think she may be this Ann.

Just confirmed that my ancestor Richard Steele was born 1773 in Queen's County. He died Nov. 6, 1856 in Grenada West Indies and a newspaper obituary from the island indicates Queen's as the county he originated. He left there in 1800 for the West Indies. He had siblings - Lydia Margaret 1770-1847 m John D'Acre; Robert m Frances Moore; Anne m Thomas Ringwood; and Catherine m M.T.Smith.
Looking for other researchers of these families.

Came across reference to this marriage 26 June 1884 in records of Sacred Heart RC Church PoS - he was a clerk, full age, she was also listed as full age without occupation. Looking for Brown descendants who might have Thomas in their tree and can confirm or refute whether Adelaide Matilda Huggins was sister to my great great grandmother Emma Isadora Huggins Steele. If so her nickname would have been 'Minnie'. The witnesses at the wedding were R.M. Steele (possibly Richard Malcolm Steele her brother-in-law) and Hamel Smith (a person of this name was related by marriage to the Steele's). I believe Emma and Adelaide may be sisters of Joseph James Huggins who married Helen Louisa Amelia Smith 7 Nov 1870 at Trinity Anglican Cathedral PoS (she was daughter of John Taylor Smith of Scotland who worked at the short lived International Bank of Trinidad.)
Cheers, Susan

Looking for anyone with connections to Ezekiel Button b abt 1781 of Woodbridge. His wife was Amy b abt 1784. They had a daughter Mary and one called Emma.

Their daughter Emma or Amy Button b about 1811 married Edward Watkins. (I found an Amy Button who married an Edward Watkins 12 Dec 1826 in Monewdon Suffolk.) Their children all born in Claydon were: Emma b abt 1827, Edward b 1829, Ezekiel Button Watkins b 1831, John b 1835, daughter Almeida b 1838, and Abraham b 1841. (Mary Watkins b 1776 aged 65 in the house during the 1841 census probably Edward's mother).

In the 1852 census sons Ezekiel Button Watkins and John Watkins were in their grandfather Ezekiel Button's household in Woodbridge. I am trying to see what happened to their brother Edward Watkins who appears only once in the 1841 census. By 1851 be would have been about 22 years old if he lived, could have been married or in work somewhere away from the family Claydon. I am hoping to find that this Edward is the father of William Watkins of Barham who married Margaret Ellen Thurlow of Crowfield in 1884. 

(Note: There is another Ezekiel Button in Woodbridge b Abt 1820 in Melton but not sure if connected - this Ezekiel had a wife Ellen/Eleanor/Elvina (census transcripts differ but it is the same family) with children, Mary, Francis boy, Eleanor, Frances/Fanny, George and William).

Hope someone can confirm the connection, Susan

Looking for family of Richard Steele b 1773 and his sister Lydia Margaret Steele b 1770 said to have been from Kyle in Co.Wexford. He emigrated to Grenada in the West Indies and she married a John Dacre which their children modified to Deaker. I am curious about this place Kyle as there seem to be two townlands with the same name. I have also found a Richard Steele died at Kyle House in Queens Co. in 1835 and wonder if this is a coincidence. I have read that the Kyle Estate in Wexford was famous for experimental `modern`farming and had several cottages on it that were rented out. Any information on Kyle or Steele Family of Wexford would be welcome.

The only Steele I have found in conjunction with Wexford are Arthur Loftus Steele of Barrow House Roos, Co. Wexford a Lt.Coll in the Indian Army who married Olivia Goddall Pigott of Slevoy Castle Co.Wexford in 1872. The wedding was in Dublin at St. Anne COI. His father was Thomas William Steele a Colonel in the Indian Army, her father was George Pigott a Captain in the Wexford Militia. The Loftus name in Wexford is interesting as there are a few posts about the family.

I believe the family were COI, a number of the children of Lydia Margaret seem to have been Methodists and  several children of Richard Steele were baptized Methodist in Grenada.

Cheers, Susan