George Bucke

Small-scale slave-owner on Nevis, dying c. 1833.

1. The Worshipful George Bucke was a magistrate in Nevis, and was (at least) once Chairman of a meeting of the magistrates pro temp.

2. Administration of the will of George Bucke 'Master and Examiner of Island of Nevis' [made in 1831 and attested in Nevis in 1833) was granted 23/04/1836 to Bertha Baker his sister of Bungay. He left £80 to 'Cromwell, a negro man at this time belonging to the estate of Mrs Martha Williams Hamilton deceased in consideration of his services to me in my many sicknesses.' He left £1000 on which the interest was to be paid to his brother Walter Lewis Bucke (q.v.) for life and then to their sister Bertha Baker: his two siblings were also his residuary legatees.

1. 1830-31 (230) Slave population in the West Indies. Papers presented to Parliament … 1831, pp. 18 and 25

2. Will of George Bucke, TNA PROB 11/1860/136.