Walter Lewis Bucke

???? - 1858

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Resident on Nevis, a large-scale agent or attorney and small-scale slave-owner at the time of compensation but a purchaser of Bush Hill during Apprenticeship, reportedly dying on Nevis c. 1858.


Sources

David Small and Christine Eickelmann, 'Bush Hill Estate' (March, 2007), https://seis.bristol.ac.uk/~emceee/bushhillhistory.pdf [accessed 05/06/2019]. In this detailed study, the authors record a diary held at Rhodes House Library, Oxford MSS W Ind. S. 24 (b) 'Typed transcript of the personal diary of Walter Lewis Bucke', and note that the papers had been catalogued under 'Burke'.


Further Information

Spouse
Married but no further details

Associated Claims (3)

£24 14s 7d
Awardee
£499 16s 2d
Awardee
£135 12s 5d
Awardee

Associated Estates (10)

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
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Other
1828 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Other
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Other

Bucke registered the estate for Job Ede in 1834, but his association to the estate is not recorded in the Slave Register.

1831 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Other
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Other
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Other
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Other
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Other
1825 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Executor
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Other

Relationships (1)

Brothers