UCL

Alexander Walker

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1757

Biography

Slave-owner on Barbados, dying in London and buried in Westminster Abbey.

  1. Will of Alexander Walker of St Thomas Barbados [made in 1742 when he was about to voyage to England] proved 21/02/1758. He left his estates to his daughter Newton Walker, failing whom to his brother William Walker. He freed and provided £60 p.a. for an enslaved woman, known as 'house Betty', christened Elizabeth Mclean.

Sources

https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/alexander-walker/

  1. PROB 11/836/105

Further Information

Absentee?
Transatlantic?

Associated Estates (1)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
- 1757 [EY] → Owner
Mount Wilton [ Barbados | St Thomas ]

Relationships (2)

Alexander Walker
Father → Daughter
Newton Walter (née Walker)
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Alexander Walker
Father-in-law → Son-in-law
John Walter of South Badsley
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