P_10433_2362 – William Lyttleton

Title: Captain

First name: William

Middle name: /

Last name: Lyttleton

Aliases: William Littleton

Primary cohort: London

Sex: Male

Religion: /

Social background: /

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Political Affiliation: /

Internal migrant: Don't know

Foreign born: Don't know

Supplier to slave trade voyages: Don't know

Creditor to slave trade voyages: Don't know

Philanthropy: Don't know

Plantation owner: Don't know

Sources: William Littleton 'Mate', Gambia appears in the index to the slave trade enquiry, Vol. 68. Abridgment of the Minutes of the Evidence: Taken Before a Committee of the Whole House..to Consider the Slave Trade (1789) Vol. I p. 56 says that he lived there for 11 years as merchant. Capt. William Lyttleton was conceivably the father of the Tasmanian settler William Thomas Lyttleton (1786-1839). Unsourced genealogical sources online tie the father of William Thomas Lyttleton (1786-1839) to a William Lyttleton d. 1805 (who has not been traced), and his mother as Rebecca Lyttleton. A Rebecca Lyttleton was also buried at St Paul Deptford, in 1823 reportedly aged 43, as was William Lyttleton (c. 1738-1816). The ADB entry by C. J. Craig, 'Lyttleton, William Thomas (1786–1839)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lyttleton-william-thomas-2385/text3143, published first in hardcopy 1967, accessed online 17 January 2023, has no information about William Thomas Lyttleton's parentage but includes the linkages constructed by Lyttleton himself to the Lyttelton family of Hagley Hall in Worcestershire. William and Rebecca Lyttleton baptised a child, Robert Westcote Lyttleton, at St Dunstan and All Saints Stepney on 19/04/1792 when the father was described as William Lyttleton of M.E.O.T. merchant. The naming practice of 'Westcote' continued into the family of William Thomas Lyttleton. DE/Gp/F18 Title: Assignment by way of mortgage and accounts between Capt William Lyttelton and Christopher and Richard Puller, of bills of sale and ship called Polly (147 tons) Date: 1784-1788.