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William Walker

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1798

Biography

  1. Will of William Walker [late of the island of Jamaica at present in] London gentleman [made in 1796] proved 07/06/1798. He manumitted 'the mulatto woman named Charlotte a servant in my house in Spanish Town' and left her four 'slaves', Clarinda [?], Mary, Dickey and Princess, servants in the same household. He left to two 'quadroon boys; William Walker (b. 1784) and Roger Walker (b. 1786), sons of Charlotte [and implicitly of the testator himself], a house in St Catherine and six named enslaved people. He left the six younger children of his brother Edward Walker of Gesting Throup in Essex 拢1000 each, and the same amounts to the two children of his brother Benjamin Walker of Wells in Norfolk merchant. Among other monetary legacies he left 拢500 to his sister the wife of Henry Wildman (q.v.).

Sources

  1. PROB 11/1309/24.

Further Information

Absentee?
Transatlantic

Relationships (1)

William Walker
Brother-in-laws
Henry Wildman
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