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Matilda Hankey (1770-1841)

Matilda (Matty) was born in 1770, the eldest daughter of Robert Hankey of Putney. She was married on 8 Nov 1819, as his second wife, to Jan Caspar Hartsinck, a Dutch citizen (1755-1833), and they lived at Forefield House, Lyncombe, near Bath.

Jan Caspar Hartsinck was doubly connected to the Hankey family. His first wife Anne Peterella Crockett nee Muilman was step-daughter of the financier, government loan contractor and art connoisseur John Julius Angerstein (1735-1823), whose father was Andrew Thomson, father-in law of Matilda’s uncle John Hankey. Their daughter was Emilie (born 1790 at Amsterdam, d 1836), who on 8 Nov 1824 married Captain John Day (1779-1843), a half-pay officer, of Englishbatch, near Bath.

Jan Caspar Hartsinck was a Sheriff of Amsterdam by May 1785, when he was admitted as a partner in Hope & Co., the largest and most eminent of the Dutch merchant houses. Hartsinck had established a bank (Hartsinck, Hutchinson & Playfair) in connection with which his partner William Playfair narrowly escaped prosecution by the Bank of England in 1797.

Matilda died on 5 Sep 1841 at Bath.