Walter Cockburn

Edinburgh West India merchant, dying c. 1840.

1. Will of Walter Cockburn [merchant presently residing at no. 24 Broughton Place Edinburgh] proved 04/12/1840. In the will he left £100 to his natural daughter Mary Cockburn of the island of Grenada. He clearly had significant residential property around Broughton Place in Edinburgh. He set aside £18,000 to secure an annuity for his wife Alicia Horsford or Cockburn, £4000 (raised in a codicil to £6000) for his daughter Mary Anne, and provided £20,000 to enable his sons Isaac Horsford Cockburn and Buchanan McBarnet Cockburn to continue his merchant business, which he had, he said, found profitable. Identified as West India merchant after his death (by 1853) in an advertisement for creditors of his trust estate.

2. The business of the sons Isaac and Buchanan Cockburn was sequestrated in 1849.

3. Married to Alicia, daughter of Isaac Horsford (q.v.).

T71/891 Tobago claim nos. 31 (Marys Hill), 39 (Highlands) and 40 (Culloden); T71/880 Grenada claim no. 560 (Resource Estate); T71/881 Dominica claim nos. 13 (Princes Grove) and 837 (Roseau (town)).

1. PROB 11/1937/162; Edinburgh Gazette, Issue 6318, 20/09/1853, p. 730.

2. Edinburgh Gazette, Issue 5870, p. 623.

3. Email from Mary Cornelius 24/08/2018 sourced to Lucius Cary to Sarah Cary, 10 January 1815, Ms. N-2003, Massachusetts Historical Society, Cary Family papers III, 1769-1919: Box 3.

We are grateful to Mary Cornelis for her assistance with compiling this entry.