Walter, Abel, ca. 1701-1767

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Walter, Abel, ca. 1701-1767

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ca. 1701-1767

History

WALTER, ABEL, eldest son of John Walter MP, Woking, Surrey, and Lucy, dau. of Col. Abel Alleyne, Speaker of Assembly, Barbados, West Indies; b.; adm. (aged 14) Nov 1715; in under school list 1717; of Baddesley, Hampshire; lic. to m. 23 Jan 1729 Hon. Jane Nevill, dau. of George Nevill, 11th Baron Abergavenny; buried Bath Abbey 15 Oct 1767.

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Owner of Mount Wilton estate in Barbados, which had 208 enslaved people in 1939. 'John Walter, MP for Surrey 1719 - 1727 and son of Richard Walter merchant of Barbados, left the bulk of his Caribbean and English estates to his eldest son Abel and the American interests to his younger sons. His bequests of 1736 included land, ‘cattle and negroes’.'

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Related entity

Walter, John, 1733-1811 (1733-1811)

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GB-2014-WSA-17588

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family

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Walter, John, 1733-1811

is the child of

Walter, Abel, ca. 1701-1767

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Walter, Nevill, 1737-1802 (1737-1802)

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GB-2014-WSA-17591

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family

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Walter, Nevill, 1737-1802

is the child of

Walter, Abel, ca. 1701-1767

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Dottin, Abel, ca. 1708-1760 (ca. 1708-1760)

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GB-2014-WSA-06298

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family

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Dottin, Abel, ca. 1708-1760

is the cousin of

Walter, Abel, ca. 1701-1767

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Dottin, Abel, ca. 1708-1760 (ca. 1708-1760)

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GB-2014-WSA-06298

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family

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Dottin, Abel, ca. 1708-1760

is the brother in law of

Walter, Abel, ca. 1701-1767

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GB-2014-WSA-17583

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GB 2014

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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition

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Dates of creation, revision and deletion

Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
Revised by Bethany Duck, Archive Assistant, September 2020

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Supplementary information drawn from UCL's Legacies of British Slave-ownership database. Entry URL: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146660611

Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.

The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.

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