Walter, John, 1733-1811

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Walter, John, 1733-1811

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1733-1811

History

WALTER, JOHN, son of Abel Walter (qv); bapt. Godalming, Surrey 26 Oct 1733 (IGI); adm. (aged 8) Apr 1742 (Levett's); left 1749; of Farley Hill, Swallowfield, Berks.; High Sheriff, Berkshire 1764; m. 17 Nov 1757 Newton, only child of Alexander Walker, Farley Hill, Berks., and Mount Wilton plantation, Barbados, West Indies; d. 1811.

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Owner of two estates in Barbados: Apes Hill and Mount Wilton, the latter of which has 178 enslaved people upon his death. Ordered estates and enslaved people to be sold on his death.

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Walter, Abel, ca. 1701-1767 (ca. 1701-1767)

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GB-2014-WSA-17583

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family

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Walter, Abel, ca. 1701-1767

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Walter, John, 1733-1811

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GB-2014-WSA-17588

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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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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/2146649083

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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