Augustus Robert Hankey

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1830

Biography

Banker and co-partner with William Alers Hankey and Thomas Hankey II, and son of Robert Hankey, a previous partner in the family banking firm.

Will of Augustus Robert Hankey of Fenchurch Street proved 30/03/1830. In the will he left his house at Basingstoke for life to Mrs Cassandra Sympson, and the property he shared with his partners in trust, with William Alers Hankey having the option to buy Augustus Robert Hankey's share in the Fenchurch St premises for £1500, Thomas Hankey having the option to buy half of Augustus Robert Hankey's original share in Arcadia and the enslaved people on it for £5000 and Thomas and William Alers having the option to buy the other half.

Sources

PROB 11/1768/253

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

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

- 1830 [LA] → Joint owner

Arcadia [ Jamaica | Trelawny ]

Between 1823 and 1829, a group of 38-42 enslaved people attached to Arcadia were registered to William Alers Hankey, Augustus Robert Hankey and Thomas Hankey, but the bulk of the enslaved people were registered to William Barnett until 1832.