George Wyke

Richard Molineux (q.v., of Little Russell St. Bloomsbury, coach wheelwright), William Southey (q.v., of Chenies St Bedford Square, currier), Stephen Lewis (q.v., of Regent St., silk mercer) and John McRae (q.v., of Ave Maria lane, snuff-box manufacturer), were awarded compensation for 8 enslaved people on Antigua as assignees of George Wyke.

1. George Wyke is possibly the Capt George Wyke of 4 Bryanston Street who was buried 09/04/1846 aged 74 at All Souls Kensal Green. The award would then represent a settlement with Wyke's creditors among local tradesmen.

2. George Wyke was the collector of customs for Antigua in the 1820s, and was among the signatories of the 1825 letter in support of Mr Phillips' character in the appendices to Mary Prince's narrative.

T71/877 Antigua claim no. 560.

1. Ancestry.com, London, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-1980 [database online].

2. TNA CO 318/81.