Walter Frye Skerrett

Given as Walter F. Skerrett as the owner in 1817 of 248 enslaved people on Bellevue or Belle Vue in Demerara. To date no will or probate has been found for him.

1. Walter Frye Skerrett 'of Lambeth' was buried 04/02/1828 at St John Hampstead. He was born in Liverpool in 1762, son of Walter Skerrett [and Henrietta Cornelia Frye] and married Albinia or Albina Mathias at St Martin-in-the-Fields 29/03/1791. Albinia Mathias was a friend of Charlotte Burney.

2. Marianne Skerrett (1793-1887), the daughter of Walter Frye Skerrett and Albinia Mathias, was dresser to Queen Victoria 1837-1862.

1. Walter Frye Skerrett in Ancestry.com, London, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-2003 [database online]; Walter Frye Skerrett in Ancestry.com England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 [database online]; Walter Frye Skerrett Ancestry.com England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 [database online]. Walter Frye Skerrett's mother is identified as Henrietta Cornelia Frye in Vere Langford Oliver, More Monumental Inscriptions: Tombstones of the British West Indies p. 42, which also shows William Frye Skerrett of Heckfield Park Hants; The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney: Volume V, 1782-1783 edited by Lars E. Troide, Stewart J. Cooke, p. 256.

2. https://www.rct.uk/collection/933163/marianne-skerrett-queen-victorias-dresser-died-1887 [accessed 04/10/2018].