Major Edmund Yeamans Walcott

Awarded part of the compensation for the enslaved people on Samuel Harman's estate on Antigua with George Lodowick Wilder as trustees of the marriage settlement of Samuel Clogstoun and Caroline Walcot[t], Major Edmund Yeamans Walcott's sister.

1. Edmund Yeamans Walcot [sic] was baptised 06/11/1786 at Christchurch Hampshire, son of Edmund Walcot; his death was registered at Christchurch Q2 1847 as Walcott. Will of Edmund Yeaman Walcott, Lieutenant Colonal Royal Horse Artillery Portobello Barracks Dublin proved 17/12/1847.

2. Sir Edmund Yeamans Walcott Henderson (1821-1896), commissioner of the Metropolitan Police 1869-1886 and previously comptroller of convicts in Western Australia, born in Muddiford Hampshire in 1821, was clearly the namesake of the Edmund Yeamans Walcott of the award, and possibly a relative: his mother is given as Frances-Elizabeth, nee Walcott Sympson, in the Australian Dictionary of Biography.

Antigua no. 270. Major Edmund Yeomans [sic] Walcott of Woolwich Kent and George Lodowick Wilder of Downing Street London,  'trustees under marriage settlement of Samuel M. Clogstoun and Miss Caroline J Walcott, for two legacies of £3000 each under the will of the claimant's [Samuel Harman's] grandfather.

1. Ancestry.com, England and Wales Christening Records 1530-1906 [database online]; FreeUKGen, England and Wales Death Index 1837-1915 [database online]; PROB 11/2066/577.

2. Australian Dictionary of Biography online, Wendy Birman, 'Sir Edmund Yeamans Walcott Henderson (1821-1896), soldier, administrator and police commissioner.'