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Every summer when I was growing up I used to watch on BBC or listen to the commentary of John Arlott to the England Test Matches. One summer, 1966, I remember particularly well that West Indies toured England and they featured a Barbadian player - Seymour Nurse, who was 2^nd^ only to the great Gary Sobers in runs scored that series.

When looking at your family history it is important to recognize the bad with the good. I was aware growing up that there were Nurses in Barbados. Seymour Nurse who was a famous cricketer in the West Indies teams of the 1960s, was a Barbadian. Recently, I discovered references to a family of Sugar Plantation owners and therefore Slave owners with the name Nurse, and it is more than likely that Seymour Nurse was descended from one of these slave owners, as enslaved children often took the name of their owner, especially when their owner was in fact their biological father.

Considering the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the time thereof and being (blessed be God) in tolerably good health of body and of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding I **Robert Nurse** of Hanham Green in the hamlet of Hanham within the parish of Bitton in the County of Glouceter do make ordain and publish this to be my last will and testament in manner and form following

Abstract of the title of Mr Thomas Wall and wife to a messuage, garden, orchard and Malthouse at Hanham in the parish of Bitton in the county of Gloucestershire

This is the Last Will and Testament of me Jonathan Couch Nurse of Hanham Green, Gloucestershire, Maltster.

This is the Last Will and Testament of me Robert Nurse of the Parish of Bitton in the County of Gloucester, Maltster.

I, Robert Willis of the Hamlet of Hanham in the Parish of Bitton in the County of Gloucester, Yeoman, being of sound mind, memory and understanding, thanks be to God for the same and knowing the frailty of this mortal life and the certainty of death and being therefore desirous to settle my worldly affairs do make and declare this to be my Last Will and Testament in manner following, that is to say.

This is the Last Will and Testament of me Robert Nurse of the Parish of St. George in the County of Gloucester, Licensed Victualler and Maltster.

We Ann Nurse and Robert Willis Nurse agree to sell the stock and fixtures book debts etc of the late Robert Nurse in relation to the malting business carried on at Hanham Green and as valued by William Fricks Son and Company on the 10th October 1876 as under and

The eldest son of Baron Norreys was Sir John Norris. He was born about 1547 to Sir Henry and his wife Margery. Sir John was considered the most accomplished soldier of his day and was a lifelong friend of Queen Elizabeth