George Walker Esq.

???? - 1783


Biography

In a List of inhabitants of St Peter, Barbados, 1780, Walker was listed as owning 148 enslaved. Probably but not certainly George Walker, later Walker-Hungerford, the agent for Barbados and father-in-law of the Hon. John O. Crewe (q.v.), who married Henrietta Maria Anne Hungerford.

  1. The will of George Walker of Calais late of Cavendish Square and formerly of Barbados proved 17/08/1784 identifies his daughter as Henrietta Maria Anne Walker, refers to a settlement in Barbados for his son George and to the provision for his daughter Henrietta Maria Anne under his own marriage settlement: he also made Henrietta Maria Anne his heir in the case of the death of his son.

  2. A George Walker of Barbados who would have been born around 1713 was at Groningen in 1733.


Sources

Barbados Department of Archives, RB9/3/6

  1. PROB 11/1121/82

  2. 1733, 25 Nov. Geo Walker, Barbadoensis, Jur. (Album Studiosorum Academiae Groningen, kol. 183). (Naamlijst van de studenten, sedert de oprigting der Hoogeschool te Groningen ingeschreven : 1615-1833. – Groningen : s.n., [ca. 1870], 568, [14] p. ; 19 cm. – Overdr. Uit: Album Academiae Groninganae. – p. 532).

We are grateful to Stanley Robert Criens for the reference to Groningen.


Further Information

Absentee?
Transatlantic
Spouse
Henrietta Maria
Children
George; Henrietta Maria
University
Groningen [1733 ]

Associated Estates (4)

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
1758 [EA] - 1783 [LA] → Tenant-for-life
1757 [EA] - → Owner
1758 [EA] - 1783 [LA] → Tenant-for-life
1777 [EA] - 1777 [LA] → Owner

The estate was mortgaged by George Walker of Cavendish Square in 1777


Relationships (2)

Father → Son
Father-in-law → Son-in-law

Addresses (2)

Calais, France
Cavendish Square, London, Middlesex, London, England