Anne Byam Hill (née Wyke)

Daughter of Anthony Wyke. Married Daniel Hill the younger (q.v.) at St George's, Antigua, 12/03/1789. Awarded compensation for Brooks and Morris's estate(s) in Antigua as executor of her husband, and received further compensation under another smaller award in Antigua where she was given as Ann Byam Hill. It is likely but not demonstrated that her son Henry Hill was the Secretary to the Commissioners of Compensation.

1. In 1851, Anne Byam Hill aged 82 born Montserrat was living at 13 Orchard St with her son Henry Hill (aged 54) barrister-at-law born Antigua and daughter Elizabeth aged 50. In 1841 the family had been at the same address. Anne Byam Hill was the main beneficiary of her son's will (made in 1852 when she was 83 and proved 16/06/1857), having the interest for life in his personalty and in half of the income from his real property, including the Brooks and Morris estates in Antigua. His sister Elizabeth, who was trustee, was the remainderman and residuary legatee.

2. Ann [sic] Byam Hill of 29 Grande Rue, Boulogne sur Mer, was buried at All Souls Kensal Green 09/05/1857 aged 89.

3. Anne Byam Wyke Hill (1789/90-1881), the eldest daughter of Daniel Hill the younger and Anne Byam Wyke, married 23/01/1811 Thomas Tudor Tucker (1775-1852), who is in the ODNB as naval officer, and was the son of Henry Tucker, secretary of the Council in the Bermudas, and Frances Bruere, daughter of the governor of the Bermudas. Thomas Tudor Tucker's brother Henry St George Tucker (1771/2-1852) has an entry as 'East India Company servant' and Henry St George Tucker's daughter Charlotte Maria Tucker (1821-1893) also has an entry as 'children's writer and missionary.'

Vere Langford Oliver, The History of the island of Antigua ... from the first settlement in 1635 to the present time (3 vols., London, Mitchell and Hughes, 1894-99), Vol. 2 p. 72.

1. 1841 and 1851 censuses online; Will of Henry Hill Barrister at law of Orchard Street Portman Square, PROB 11/2253/244.

2. J. K. Laughton, ‘Tucker, Thomas Tudor (1775–1852)’, rev. Andrew Lambert, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2013 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27791, accessed 31 Jan 2014].

3. Ancestry.com, London, England, Death and Burials, 1813-1980 [database online].