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By Dan Byrnes
An Australian scenario ... For the benefit of non-Australian readers, it would be helpful if I said, that by the 1970s, Australia had been made a mixed economy, although this mix of the economy was partly due to some trends which had been on place since Australia was federated, by 1901. Amongst other achievements, these trends supported workers by way of establishing regimes for wage-setting for various industries.
This item is bnased on an article by Ruth Williams writing in Sydney Morning Herald, weekend edition, 16-17 December, 2017, Business Section, p. 6. "Lobby groups losing their seat at table". The article is sub-headlined: "The power of business organisations is waning". And the idea is, that businessmen talk to politicians. But did the businessman ever have much power, and why were they talking to government anyway? It might be as follows in a context of Merchant Networks... One day in 1983 at the Regent Hotel, Sydney, was held a "glittering event" attended by hundreds of Australia's top businessmen and politicians. The new prime minister of Australia, Bob Hawke, earlier a senior Australian unionist, was launching The Business Council of Australia. This council involved 60 of Australia's corporate heads, and was headed by Sir Arvi Parbo. The idea was that this non-political council would develop "objective long-term views" in the national interest, all an idea that had had its time come, Hawke thought. But shortly, reality set in, in the form of an emphasis on enterprise bargaining. Then the Business Council of Australia (BCA) was taking out press ads to promote its views on cuts to government spending. For a time, the BCA enjoyed the ear of politicians and prestige amongst its own members, but slowly, the gloss wore off. Today (2017), it is said, large businesses are distrusted by the public if not by government. During 2017, the BCA was advocating corporate tax cuts and lower penalty rates for workers. (Newspaper articles on such topics rarely however tell their readers what these rates are or have been, we are usually only told that someone, somewhere, wants to modify the status quo, and often that is for unstated reasons due to a thoughtless imitation of USA trends.) However, Williams' article goes on, politicians still show up at business gatherings, but really, it has become harder to believe that government wishes to listen to the opinions of businessmen. (As this trend set in, the BCA had been wanting to discuss themes such as: reform generally, company tax, more political stability for the energy sector (a scenario beset by disunity about the realities or not of climate change and what to do about it), worker skills and education generally. Politics generally here has been seen as shifting in the breezes of populism. Or is it more simply that many politicians are more willing to listen to community groups than to business groups?
Williams writes, that before the 1983 Hawke era, business-government linkages were disorganised, divided, ad hoc, and too informal, with a few favoured business names conferring with government men largely in private. Meanwhile the formation of the BCA was followed by the formation of lobby groups such Australian Bankers Association (ABA), Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA), Financial Services Council (FSC). The Australian Investment Managers Association (which became the FSC). Australian Mining Industry Council became The Minerals Council. Issues as they change have different effects on different bodies. The BCA has not been helped (since about 2008) by disunity about climate change issues, or "the environment". And disunity? Disunity it is said reduces the credibility of the BCA. Politics arises. Differences of opinion are ventilated.
Of late, business feels it has been "demonised", while many politicians of 2017 seem aware that the public distrusts politicians, politics, political parties. As these trends take up, while business resentment of social welfare measures cones and goes, newer trends such as coming automation (intensifying automation) need also to be discussed.And what, this Williams' article asks, by 2017 should the main concerns of the business-government discussion - to be culture warriors, a set of think tanks (as if "thinking" was like counting a row of water tanks?), research houses, lobbyists???.
And well, times change and views change. A historian might well say that Australia's Nineteenth Centuries legislative councils always meant a strong relationship between business and governments, simply because the governors of Australian colonies had say about who could be effective in politics, a say that diminished over time as Australians strengthened their involvements in self-government. Not that the promoters of this website have read much on any such topic.
Despite all, what can the promoter of a "Merchants Networks outlook" say that could be helpful? We recall, that it was complained in the 1990s that in the USA, lobbyists were far too vocal and powerful in Washington DC, influencing Congress and the House of Representatives. Oligarchs in Russia have been discussed. Corruption has been pointed-to in various countries, as have failed states (where normal business must mean hell for those involved) ... Struggling new states (such as Wast Timor) have also been mentioned.
2012: For modern views on whaling, and some previous history. D. Graham Burnett, The Sounding Of The Whale. University of Chicago Press, 2012, 728pp.
1920s USA: Paul Warburg warns against a time of coming financial difficulties and becomes a Cassandra, his warnings ignored.
On the Krupp industrialist family of Germany see Harold James, Krupp. Princeton University Press, 2012, 360pp.
Michele Fitoussi, Helena Rubenstein, The Woman Who Invented Beauty. HarperCollins, 2012, 484pp.
Below are items still uncollected
1840: Francis Mackenzie Gillanders in 1840 leaves his firm Ogilvy Gillanders and Co. of Liverpool. The original partners in the firm had been himself, Peter Ewart, Edward Lyon, Thomas Ogilvy, George C. Arbuthnot and John Jackson.
1840: Edmund Wheeler (nd): Is he Edmund John Wheeler? SA and London financier Edmund Wheeler (active c.1840). Is he EJ Wheeler? In early 1840 he is London manager of SA Co. about time when Angas is in trouble, and Angas has to sell disposable property at Newcastle-on-Tyne, his Union Bank shares, and to get out of mahogany trade. He possibly assisted Caroline Chisholm, see her notes qv. There is an EJ Wheeler named as a member of first Committee re Family Colonization Loan Society, see Fifty-One Pieces of Wedding Cake, pp. 272-273.
1840: William Westgarth (1815-1889) Merchant. He assisted Caroline Chisholm (see her notes). A firm believer in the ideas of Adam Smith. He early enters firm George Young and Co. of Leith who were in the Australian trade. Emigrated to eatern Australia. Is at Melbourne by 1840, when its population is 3000-4000. Once sees a corroboreee of 700 Aboriginals. Has firm Westgarth, (Alfred) Ross and Spowers by 1845. In 1850 is elected to represent Melbourne in Legislative Council of NSW. In 1851 he founded Melbourne Chamber of Commerce. In 1853 had book, Victoria, Late Australia Felix. He talked government into subsidizing German workers to Port Phillip district. Went overseas, then returned to Australia in 1854. Helped a commission examining into Eureka Rebellion. In 1857 he returned to settle in London to re-establish as a stockbroker. He left VIC for London in 1857 and went to London where he established a sharebroking firm. It is said he "became the centre of the syndicates of speculators who have chiefly controlled Australian loans". Contributed items on Australia to Encyclopedia Britannica. See also on Donald Larnach qv. This man probably dealt with Rothschilds in London, as did Lanarch, he and Larnach closely associate. Merchant at time of goldrush, see Blainey, Rush That Never Ended, pp. 43-44. He returned to Victoria in 1888. He married in 1853 and had three drs. In the late 1880s he was trying to convince the Australian colonies to confederate, if only for joint guarantee of colonial debts. In 1862-64 he wanted the abolition of transportation to Western Australia. He became co-founder of Colonial Institute in 1869 and one of six-co-founders of Imperial Federation League in 1884. In 1887 he published Sketch of the Nature and Limits of a Science of Economics, and was interested in problems of poverty and social inequality. His firm Westgarth and Co. failed in 1890. He had taken £100,000 from it when he retired. See Geoffrey Serle, The Golden Age: A History of the Colony of Victoria, 1851-1861. 1963. See an electricscotland webpage on this man. See his own ADB entry. See his entry by Geoffrey Serle in DNB 2004 edition.
1840: Mail contractor John Thacker (nd) Code-red. Active by 1840. Code-India. Code-red. Code-Aust. In Fay's book on opium war, p. 138 is mention of John Thacker who has dealings with Jardines, of St Helen's Place London c 1841 who leaves England in spring of 1838, has money from the London agency business, and, Fay says, "an honest appetite for speculation" - and he later testifies to a parliamentary committee - Fay says he is considerably familar with the opium trade. Thacker goes to Bombay, at get Malwa opium, sold some at Singapore, and reaches Canton on Feb 1839 with 86 chests of opium, half his own and half for a group of Parsees. He is of Ascot, Berks, Burke's Peerage for Belhaven, 1938. This man arrived in Sydney with wife plus five drs no sons in 1842 and shipping agent and woolbroker with Thacker and Mason, imported Allsopp's ales, negotiated a mail contract, dealt in exports, broker in wool, tallow and other colonial produce, inc beef, link in London to Jardine, Matheson and Co. in the East. See Holder, Bank of NSW, Vol. 1, pp. 152-165, as this man goes on board of the post-1850 "new" Bank of NSW. See notes to Rbt Towns on post-1850 influential men at Bank of NSW. See Thacker in Dyster on Fanning and Jones, p. 370; and p. 373 Note 9 re a firm, Thacker, Mason and Co, writing to Jardine Matheson and Co, 6 June, 1843 and again in 1845. See D. E. Fifer on Thacker and Co sending wool by 1847 to Magniac, Jardine and Co. Broeze on Brooks. Stenton, Brit Partls, Vol. 1, Brit Partls, p. 176, for E. W. T. Hamilton MP, qv. At one time with Thacker as partner is Fane de Salis, who is also link as position on board of UBA. Actually, William Andreas de Salis. Items in an online log of Jardine-Matheson archives. There is a John Thacker of Fort Street Sydney.
Richardson: London convict contractor of 1840 for ship Hindostan from TheShipsList website on Vessels Carrying Convicts From Great Britain, 1839-1846.
1840: Petman: London convict contractor of 1840 for ship Pekoe from TheShipsList website on Vessels Carrying Convicts From Great Britain, 1839-1846.
W. L. Oldfield (nd). London convict contractor of 1840 for ship Lady Raffles from TheShipsList website on Vessels Carrying Convicts From Great Britain, 1839-1846.
1840: Robert Archibald Morehead, financier (c.1814-1885). Code-Aust. Code-red. He has two drs and one son. His ADB entry online. See p. 133 of Richards' essay in RA Cage's book, this man navigated the 1840s depression successfully, for the Scottish Australian Investment Company, established in 1840 with a capital of £100,000, to deal with banking, insurance and investment, some reference to building brick houses in Melbourne and Sydney, importing Baltic timber to Sydney, buying land at Port Phillip and whaling in SA. He has older brothers in EICo service. He early worked as insurance broker then as book-keeper etc for James Finlay and Co. of Glasgow. In 1843 he (as SA manager for the Scottish Australian Co.) he contended with the banks and monied companies of NSW and called them "the borrowocracy" as in his ADB entry to be copied into here. netsurf for this.
- 1840: Michie Forbes (nd) WESTMINSTER - 1840-1844
Master: Captain Molison (1840-42); Captain Forbes Michie (1844)
Rigging: Barque; sheathed in felt and copper in 1841
Tonnage: 513 tons using old measurements and 611 tons using new
measurements
Construction: 1837 in Sunderland; repairs to damages in 1841
Owners: D. Dunbar
Port of registry: London
Port of survey: London
VOYAGES:
1840 To Sydney, Australia.
1843 From London and Plymouth, migrant ship to New Zealand. Departed
Plymouth December 1842, arrived Auckland 31 March 1843, Captain Forbes
Michie.
1844 To Calcutta
1840: Sir Chapman Marshall (1788-1862) London Lord Mayor London for 1840. Wholesale grocer. An only son. Member Haberdasher's Co. His lineage is not easy. Gentleman's Magazine item. Burke's LG for Huth (formerly Boord) of Wan's Dyke End.) See Burke's LG for Chapman formerly of Whitby. He is London Lord Mayor in 1839/1840. V. Hope. Lists. Cf, on various London Lords Mayor see www.london-city-history.org.uk/biography.htm.
1840: Owen MacDonald (1809-1870). Midshipman in 1821-1822 on ship Macqueen owned by John Campbell (ship-owner of Leadenhall St London), chartered to EICo. John Campbell gave Owen a letter of introduction, to Chales J. Campbell Esq. of The Customs House Building, Sydney. Per Mike Reed of Armidale on 12-9-2009. Arrived to Aust in 1840 on Florentia 23 Jan 1840. Brother of George Macdonald the first surveyer of Armidale NSW.
1840: William Schaw Lindsay (1816-1877) Code-red. Contractor MP and shipowner. He assisted Caroline Chisholm, see her notes qv. WS Lindsay by March 1854 had told Chisholm his firm had 10,000 tons of mostly steam shipping used as transports for France, he understood that transport of ships, men and stores to the Crimea was a huge chaos. - Lindsay in Hoban, p. 325 seems to have fitted out ships according to the specifications of Chisholm. He is brought up an orphan from Ayr by his uncle a Free Kirk minister, he left home in 1831 on a collier, cabin boy to WI, he retired from sea in 1840 after some injuries, he went into a Hartlepool coal company, in 1845 he went to London, his bro-in law is a Glasgow iron merchant. he became one of the largest shipowners in the world [but how?], retired in 1864. elected MP. see Sarah Palmer on repeal of Nav Laws. See his own DNB entry and the ADB for Caroline Chishom, this man built a ship the Caroline Chisholm for her endeavour, sailing in 1853. This man founded the shippng house of W. S. Lindsay and Co, 8 Austin Friars, London. In early life he was apprenticed in the merchant service, commanding a ship by age 20. He relinquished that life in 1840. He is an author of books and pamphlets on maritime affairs, eg in 1842, Our Navigation and Mercantile Maritime Laws. A magistrate for Midx. See Byrnes, The BC, p. 97. Stenton, Vol. 1, Brit Partls, p. 239. Broeze on Brooks. See A. G. E Jones, Ships Employed, p. 275. See http by UK National Portrait Gallery. See http www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
1840: Whaler James Kelly (1791-1859 died Hobart) Sealer, pilot, Harbourmaster, was possibly the first Austn-born white to become a master mariner. His own entry on ADB online and page on wikipedia. His fr probably James Kelly a Greenwich man who was cook on transport Queen and Catherine Deveraux a convict on that ship. by 1804 he is apprentice to Kable and Underwood. Sealing. he helped set up secondary penal settlements. See Sylvia Morrissey essay, p. 67 re founding of the Derwent Whaling Club in 1825. Dakin WA, p. 56 says on Jan 24, 1840 there were five French whalers in the port of Hobart and 15 French whalers outside. He is once master of Henrietta packet owned by Thomas William Birch and also Sophia for Birch. His own ADB entry. See Dakin, WA, p. 45. His son1 died whaling in 1841. His son3 drowned in Derwent in 1843, seven of his ten children died before him. He suffered with the 1840s Depression.
1840: Thomas Johnson (nd). London Lord Mayor London He is Lord Mayor in 1840. Valerie Hope. Lists.
1840: Harrison: London convict contractor of 1840 for ship Margaret from TheShipsList website on Vessels Carrying Convicts From Great Britain, 1839-1846.
1840: Lewis William Gilles (1796-1884). http on lineage of Hodson-Durand-Pybus-Horne-Lucas-Gilles in Australia. Launceston banker. Code-Aust. Code-red. Broeze on Brooks. Archer Gilles. and Co bank was begun in Launceston in 1840. Capital joint stock of 50,000 pounds. Partners were William Archer, Edward Archer, Joseph Archer, James Cox, William Dallas Bernard, and Lewis William Gilles (the manager). Their London agent Robert Brooks was informed the bank would discontinue in 1843, and it was absorbed by UBA - the UBA merged in 1951 with Bank of Australasia to become Australia and New Zealand Bank.
1840: Edward Flood (1805-1888): Code-Aust. He is illegitimate son of Irish convict James Flood. He started as builder and carpenter. In Grazing by 1840-1842, acquired many stations in NSW and Qld, (first was Narrandera Station) had his own private wool warehouse at Circular Quay, Sydney, Blackwall wool stores. Built first flour mill in Murrumbidgee area. Mayor of Sydney in 1848. MLC 1851-1856-1879-1888. Cited in Barnard, Visions and Profits on TS Mort, 1961. Appendix II, Biographical Notes. By his death he had lived for years with Jane Oatley and her three children. He had two children with Oatley. He is MLA NSW. Barnard's book on Mort, p. 227. Mowle's Genealogy for Suttor.
1840: Ranulph Dacre (1797-1884) He is son5. He is victim of the 1840s depression His own ADB entry. Code-Aust. His own ADB entry. He was in navy, then in merchant navy, traded to West Indies, first visited NSW in 1823 for Robert Brooks of London, on ship Elizabeth. Went to NZ, south sea stations for missionaries, then to London for Brooks on ship Surry. tried to get masts from NZ. used Capt Skelton. Had an agreement with one Gordon D. Browne for timber, in 1832 and ship Bolina. By 1840 he a leading Sydney merchant, had a wharf in PJ, a director of Union Bank of Aust, Sydney Alliance Assurance Co. Sharebroker in other operations. he later bought land in Port Phillip area. Became insolvent in depression of 1842-1844. Lost all. More sea trips to NZ. had one dr and seven sons. D. E. Fifer, p. 94, this man is cousin to Walter Buchanan with whom he had a stormy partnership. Broeze p. 325, Note 48 has this man buying land in NZ from Maoris, using an agent Browne who later became insane. See ADB, and Captain Dacre in Aukland-Waikato Historical Journal, No 37, Sept 1980., pp. 1-4. Broeze on Brooks, p. 18, p. 303. Pemberton thesis, p. 363. Genforum item: Ranulph DACRE himself was declared insolvent in 1846. Dacre's efforts to form a regular trade in timber and flax were not always easy or successful. According to the Old Land Claims evidence (No’s 978-81), he writes of his first expedition to North Auckland and Mercury Bay: “In 1831 I undertook to procure 100 masts for H.M. Government and employed Mr Skelton, with men from Sydney, to prepare them. I purchased a vessel in Sydney (the “Darling”), and sent the men from Sydney. Mr Skelton proceeded to Mongonui, about 70 miles east of North Cape, and there purchased land and a small forest – a house was built and people landed, but, as the trees were too short for naval purposes, Mr. Skelton went to Mercury Bay and purchased from the natives, a forest that appeared to have trees that were sufficiently tall for top masts for the Navy. A few days after landing the carpenters, the schooner was wrecked and a wild tribe from the Thames came across and drove the carpenters and crew of the vessel away, setting fire to their houses and store, by which a loss of 1200 was sustained”. In 1832 Dacre entered the timber trade on a larger scale. He arranged with Gordon Davis Browne to superintend a station for cutting timber on the Mahurangi inlet and some 15 men were established there, with their tools and huts, to start work. Soon after this, the station was removed to Mercury Bay, as, according to Dacre, the H.M. ship “Buffalo” came in to Mahurangi and took forcible possession of the standing trees, placing the broad arrow on them. Although Dacre says that he had begun squaring spars and preparing masts, as well as having had his land surveyed by Mr Florance, he was obliged to leave the station in 1834. He declared:
“I remonstrated with the Admiralty but never got any redress. In consequence of this, I judged it necessary to remove the station, and I accordingly determined to send Mr Browne to take possession of my old station at Mercury Bay. Thither, accordingly, in the year 1836, I removed the whole party from Mahurangi, then numbering thirty Europeans. I went down to Mercury Bay myself with the party. Upon this, I instructed Gordon Browne to make as large purchases as he could, to secure the timber, and to buy other land to form a cattle station”. (Gordon Browne had been connected with a timber yard in Sydney and this town was always the headquarters, the selling place, and supply station - for all the New Zealand timber trade).
The Mercury Bay settlement was a success - at least, it did produce a great deal of good timber, especially some fine masts, which could be prepared in the summer and got out in the winter, when the steams were in a fresh. In 1835, Browne wrote to Dacre that he had upwards of 400 new hands to work, “who have not a blanket amongst them”. He thought masts should be fairly plentiful, on account of the ravenous nature of the country.
He wrote: “I never saw such a place in New Zealand for extent of forest and convenience. The creeks come down from the mountain tops and in winter time the floods are tremendous”. He believed that two or three thousand loads of timber could be obtained annually, including 80 to 100 London masts. By August 1836 Browne reported that he had 140 masts and 150 loads of timber squared for Europe. “The order for the “He de France” (?) is commenced and will be complete in 4 to 6 months”, he wrote to Dacre, and asked him if he could find a market for 2000 loads of Square Timber, or any spars, (large clap) to be cut to order. “I could do the job well, and I think do it cheap, to be ready for shipment by August 1837”.
Captain Dacre had business interests in Australia and the Pacific as well as in New Zealand. The firm of Dacre and Wilks lasted a few years in Sydney and in 1840 Dacre was one of the leading merchants there. He owned a wharf in Sydney harbour and was a director of several businesses, including the Union Bank of Australia, and the Sydney Alliance Assurance Company. He was an assessor of the Supreme Court in the following year, and a share broker in many others. He was the owner of several ships, including the “Julia”, the “Diana”, the “Wave” and, with Alexander Fotheringham, the whaler Porteous. In 1841, with Richard Jones and Henry Elgar, he organized the first expedition to the Isle of Pines for sandalwood. Soon afterwards, he bought land for a sheep station in the Port Phillip district, on the Gammon Plains. In the Depression of 1842-44, he became insolvent and lost all his ships and estates and removed his family to Hexham, on the Hunter River, in New South Wales. After 20 years of trading, Dacre decided to leave the sea, but first he had to collect the various moneys owning to him here and there, so he undertook several more sea voyages, to New Zealand, the Society Islands and to Hawaii. In 1941 he had begun a long battle for the title of the New Zealand land he had bought during his spars ventures, and in 1844 he came here to pursue this claim. Here he began to prosper once more as a merchant and ship-owner. From this time he appears to have divided his time between Auckland and Sydney. In 1854 he entered into partnership with Thomas Macky whose business was in Fort Street, and was then one of the largest firms in the town. Finally, in 1859, he settled his large family in Auckland, where he became one of its best-known and respected citizens.
1840: William Chatfield (1815-1902). Salsbury/Sweeney on stockbrokers, p. 84. He arrives in NSW on barque Planter, in 1840, marries, then to india on barque Emerald Isle, to Madras, India with his regt, per Mowle's Genealogy.
1840: Brass: London convict contractor of 1840 for ship King William from TheShipsList website on Vessels Carrying Convicts From Great Britain, 1839-1846.
1842: Bombay merchant Pestonjee Bomanjee: By the 1840s, book p. 189, in 1830s-1840s, major Bombay exporters to China of cotton and probably opium too. Book country ships pp. 188-189, he is by 1816 or earlier part-owning ships with the following: John Forbes of Forbes and Co, (see in Broad St London, Patrick Crawford Bruce, Henry Fawcett and George Simpson; and in Bombay, James Gawthorne Remington, James Henry Crawford, John Forbes and Robert Edward Stephenson) , Bruce Fawcett and Co, John de Ponthieu (?). Henry Fawcett George Simpson, Michael (?) Brisbane, one ship under capt Patrick Gardiner. Patrick Crawford Bruce, His cousin trades largely with Smith, Forbes and Co from about 1804. Per Iseke from Book on The Country Ships re his cousin Hormajee Bomanjee. For notes see refs in Jamset Jeejeebhoy qv. Bombay or western india trader after 1800, also name of a convict ship to Australia. This man has father and brother as master-shipbuilders (Wadias?). for notes see refs in Jamset Jejeebhoy qv/. Bombay or western india trader after 1800, also name of a convict ship to Australia.
Beech: London convict contractor of 1840 for ship British Sovereign from TheShipsList website on Vessels Carrying Convicts From Great Britain, 1839-1846.
1840: Whaling writer Thomas Beale: He had been a surgeon on several whaling voyages. There was Thomas Beale, The Sperm Whale Fishery, The Sperm Whale Fishery. London. Bentley, 1840. Wrote also, The Natural History of the Sperm Whale, London 1839.
1840: Aikin: London convict contractor of 1840 for ship Duncan from TheShipsList website on Vessels Carrying Convicts From Great Britain, 1839-1846.
1841: Captain Giles Wade. (nd) London convict contractor of 1841 for ship Emma Eugenia from TheShipsList website on Vessels Carrying Convicts From Great Britain, 1839-1846. London convict contractor of 1845 for convict transport Emma Eugenia from TheShipsList website on Vessels Carrying Convicts From Great Britain, 1839-1846. From a website.
The Layton was a ship built at Messrs. Brockbank's shipyard at Lancaster, and launched on Saturday, 28th October 1814. She was 498 tons burthen, and intended for the Jamaica trade, under the command of Capt. Atkinson, according to the newspaper report of her launch. She was registered at Lancaster on the 29th October 1814, the owner being named as John Brockbank. The Layton cleared from Lancaster on the 10th December, bound for Jamaica. The registry was transferred to London the following year, probably indicating that the vessel had been sold after her first voyage. The Layton seems to have entered the trade to India, licensed to the Hon. East India Company. By 1826 she was being described as a transport, possibly for troops to India, but by 1827 she had become a transport for convicts. The Layton, Capt.Luscombe, departed Portsmouth on the 4th June 1827 for Van Diemen's Land. She made further voyages with convicts in 1829 and 1831, and then in 1833 she carried a slightly different type of human cargo: The Morning Chronicle newspaper, Monday, 19th August, 1833; "Saturday morning a number of persons assembled at St.Katherine's-wharf to witness the embarkation of 250 females on board the ship Layton, Captain Wade, bound for Sydney, chartered by the Emigration Committee to convey female emigrants to that settlement. Amongst the number we noticed several fine young women from different workhouses in the metropolis, and every one seemed pleased with the opportunity of endeavouring to better their condition. The accommodations on board the Layton for the emigrants are very comfortable, and everything is done to provide for their safety." The Sydney Gazette newspaper, Thursday, 19th December 1833; " Shipping Intelligence - Arrivals: from London, on Tuesday, whence she sailed the 15th of August last, the ship Layton (513 tons), Captain Giles Wade, with merchandise, and 306 free emigrants. Cabin passengers, Mr.Charles Beelby, Superintendent of the females; Mrs.Beelby, Mr.Frederick Beelby, Masters Alfred, Edwin, and Francis Beelby; Mr.John Rule; Mrs.Rule; Mr.Thomas Marshall ; 11 male emigrants; 284 female ditto; and 2 infants, born on board. "
The Layton arrived at Port Jackson on the 17th December 1833. The Sydney Gazette later reported, "the female emigrants by the Layton were landed yesterday, and made a very respectable appearance", then adding "the female emigrants per Layton, were landed yesterday morning, and many of them were distributed among the inhabitants. We observed several of them to be very respectable-looking women, and we doubt not, they will prove a benefit to the colony." However, a subsequent inquiry revealed that "by the Layton, there were a considerable number of well-conducted females, but there were also a very large proportion of women of very bad character ...and some of them who had been allowed to land, immediately after the ship came to anchor, were picked up quite drunk in the streets of Sydney, on the evening of their arrival." The Layton made three further voyages with convicts, in 1835, 1837 and 1841. She ended her career in the guano trade and disappeared from Lloyd's Register after 1847. A newspaper reported her arrived leaky at Barbados on the 9th December 1845, from Ichiboe and St. Helena, after a passage of 62 days. Perhaps she was condemned there, or upon her return to London.
1841: London convict contractor Smith of 1841 for ship Rajah from TheShipsList website on Vessels Carrying Convicts From Great Britain, 1839-1846.
1841: Russell (nd). London convict contractor of 1841 for ship David Clarke from TheShipsList website on Vessels Carrying Convicts From Great Britain, 1839-1846.
1841: NZ Merchant Nathaniel William Levin (1818-1903). NZ Wool dealer. Page 193 of ad fraser on Dangar/Gedye. Jewish merchant in NZ. Partner with Abraham Hort Jnr. They started at Wellington in 1841 selling drapery, hosiery, haberdashery. Had a wharf for small ships. In 1843 Levin began importing food and liquor and exported whale oil and whale bone. Bought a whaling station at Cloudy Bay but this lasted only a short time. By 1845-1847 Levein and Hort shipped goods and passengers to Tahiti. In 18147 had a shipping and land agency. By 1848 sheepfarming was eclipsing whaling. Began to ship wool to England. With the gold rushes, they shipped to San Francisco in 1850 and to Australia in 1852.
1841: William Highett (nd) See Union Bank London chairman Lord Mayor Sir Peter Laurie qv. In 1841 he is general manager of Union Bank in Tasmania. case of WFA Rucker qv. Noted p. 30 of "House of Were".
1841: London convict contractor David Halket (nd). London convict contractor of 1841 for ship Richard Webb from TheShipsList website on Vessels Carrying Convicts From Great Britain, 1839-1846. London convict contractor of 1844 for convict transport Emily from TheShipsList website on Vessels Carrying Convicts From Great Britain, 1839-1846. Of 19-20 St Helens Bishopsgate Street London. Link to migrant ship to California, re ship Walter Morrice. Report on a case argued, about 137 pounds, a Bill for. Halket is agent for ship Countess of Dunmore to Rio de Janeiro, matter disputed by shipbrokers Hudson, Weguellen and Co, nd? At some time is link (UK archives webpage) re mines in England with Thomas Nichols iron founders, Josiah Hugo Hitchins mine agent and John Metherell mine agent, all of Tavistock. An 1827 directory of Liverpool gives a timber merchant David Halket of 35 Grafton Street. From a website - CALEDONIAN STEAM TOWING COMPANY
Shadwell and Prestons Rd., Poplar.
The Caledonian Steam Towing Company came into existence about 1841 for 'the purpose of navigating and employing vessels 'impelled by steam in the towing of ships and vessels'. and by 1848 owned 9 tugs. The office address in 1842 is given as 11, Milk Yard, Shadwell. Among Managers/Directors of the company in 1849 were David Halket and John Drysdale. The company seems to have expanded rapidly as in the 1850's they are noted as owning 17 tugs. 1852 directories show the office address as 3, Shadwell Dock Street. The 1861 Post Office Directory gives their address as 6 Wapping Wall, Shadwell, with Thomas Forsyth Watson as manager. This was in fact the residence of Watson and his family. Watson had been born in Rotherhithe about 1823 and in 1851 was living in Paradise Street, Rotherhithe and was a sea captain. in 1861 whilst living in Wapping Wall he was shown as a shipowner. By March 24th 1865 the companies address was given as Prestons Road, Poplar, on the Isle of Dogs. In 1871 Watson was shown as living in Richmond Street, Plaistow, E. London and his occupation is given as "manager, Caledonian Steam Boat Company". On 15th November 1865 ground to the North of the East side of Orchard Place, Leamouth Road was being used as a repairing yard by the Caledonian Steam Towing Company. The yard had a river frontage of 130ft, and included a small shipbuilding slip, as well as a brick-and tile machine shop, a timber built office, store and shed, and an old ship's deckhouse used as an office. The company went into voluntary liquidation on August 26th 1873. Watson appears at one time to have gone into partnership with Henry Retallick Gribble and they were Engineers, Boilermakers and Brassfounders, operating at Caledonian Wharf, Blackwall. This partnership was formally dissolved in July 1876. It is believed Watson died in 1882.
1841: Goodwin. London convict contractor of 1841 for ship Lord Goderick from TheShipsList website on Vessels Carrying Convicts From Great Britain, 1839-1846.
Pestonjee Bomanjee and relations as Indian merchants.
1841: George Gawler (1795-1869). He has son 1 Henry 1827-1894 who returned to Adelaide. He has five children. This man's son Henry (married Caroline Augusta Philipot daughter of Rev B. Philpot of Isle of Man), Henry becomes solicitor to the Lands Titles Office, SA. He was the only child of Capt Samuel Gawler who died aged 25 at Seringpatam. He was recommended as a governor by Dr Gregory of the Royal Military College. He ceased as second Gov of Sth Australia on 15 May, 1841 to be replaced by Capt George Grey. He is pro-Zionism by 1841 and went in 1849 with Sir Moses Montefiore to Israel to persuade him to sponsor Jewish resettlement in Palestine. He arrived in Adelaide on Pestonjee Bomanjee.
1841: William Lawson (1774-1850). He is originating member of Agric Society of NSW at its inception. This man imported Chilean workers in 1841. He entered politics in 1843. Arrived with NSW Corps to Aust Nov 1800 in Royal Admiral II. Thence Norfolk Island. Thence Sydney by 1806. Thence Newcastle. married to Sarah Leadbeater 1812 at St John's Parramatta (Ref: E1333 Vol.3.) Importing workers some say is Blaxland's idea. His wife is Sarah Leadbeater in Mowle's Genealogy, p. 221 for his line. (Mowle's Genealogy for Nicholas Bayly, p. 28.) Macquarie had promised this man a grant of 1000 acres in "new country", out to Bathurst, and on 27 July 1815 Lawson crossed the Nepean, moving west, to south of the Fish River. Greaves on Bathurst, p. 10.
1841: British banker, George Davenport (1782-1846) Banker of Oxford and Great Wigston, probably a family bank. He it seems moved into Sth Australian finance matters as Angas moved out, see Pike, Dissent, p. 212. Wealthy English banker who became an agent of South Australian Co in London. Had partners Frederick Luck (quarter share) and Roger Cunliffe (one-8th share). There was a George Davenport highwayman in the family, hanged in 1895 or so. His son Francis Davenport died 1843 made a survey of Sth Australia for his father and returned to England in 1841.
1848: Hon. Louis Hope (1817-1894). He is son7. Captain, Coldstream Guards. Or Ormiston House overlooking Raby Bay, on a 325 acre sugar property. He arrived from England in 1848 and set to farming/grazing in s/e Qld, area only opened to free settlers about six years. Bought other land in 1861 for Ormiston Plantation. See www.redland/qld.gov.au/ Is he a NSW sugar grower? Lowndes, on CSR, p. 14. This man is Aust's first commercially successful sugar grower. Became Member Qld's Leg Council. Died in Switzerland in Aug 1884. Had moved to Moreton Bay. Brisbane Valley wasd opened to settlers in 1841, fisrt to arrive in upper valley were Sir Evan and Colin John Mackenzie, sons of Sir Colin Mackenzie of Kilcoy Scotland. were financiers and family owned their own ships. Friends of John and James Balfour who had farmed in Lachlan and Wellington districts of NSW, Colin went to Qld through New England, across Darling Downs, via Hodgson's Gap, and Evan Mackenzie went by sea. They went to north side of Stanley River, on 43,000 acres at Kilcoy Run (treated Aborginals harshly, 30 Abor were killed by poisoned flour and so 16 white men were killed in revenge). Also arriving in 1841 were John and David McConnel, at Cressbrook Station midway up the vallye, became beef cattle station, re town of Toogoolwah. Then arrived the Archer family, near today's Woodford, ran sheep and logged timber. The Mackenzies brought out more labour from Scotland. They bought the first wool store in Brisbane and built its first licenced hotel. Later had hotels in Brisbane and Ipswich. In 1850, surveyor james warner surveyed Emu Point (Cleveland) and drew up plans from a wharf and customs house. By 1851 were ideas for a new state with capital at Ipswich with port at Cleveland, as Hope and Francis Bigg expected. Bigg bought land and built Grandview Hotel and later a saw mill. A public meeting was held with Ipswich businesmen and Brisbane Valley property owners, RM Mackenzie, Louis Hope, Leslie Bros, David McConnell, Walter Gray, Robert Ramsey, Dr Dorsey and Rev John Dunmore Lang. It was decided Lang, George Leslie and Louis Hope would delegate-visit to London. Left in 1852 on Lang's ship Fortitude. Hope returned in 1853. Mackenzies sold out to Louis Hope and Robert Ramsey. In 1855 the Archers moved to Fitzroy River valley. Thomas Archer built new hosue Gracemere. Robert Towns built a paddle steamer for Brisbane-to-Ipswich and named it Breadalbane. The first sugar grower was a Brazilian, John Buhot. Towns bought in Kanakas in ship Don Juan, one of ten ships he owned, run by blackbirder Ross Lewin, 87 Kanakas.
1841: London convict contractor Chapman (otherwise unidentified) of 1841 for ship Waverley from TheShipsList website on Vessels Carrying Convicts From Great Britain, 1839-1846. Also in 1830, an agent for migrant ships was James Chapman, 2 Principal Entrance, London Dock, London. It might have been a different James Chapman at No 3, Baggage Warehouse, St Katherine´s Dock.
1841: Carter and Bonus, emigration agents. Contractor with govt to ship emigrants for about 18 pounds 4/- each. Robert Carter and John Bonus. They are Bounty Agents, emigration agents. He assisted Caroline Chisholm, see her notes qv. Re Robert carter, Crosslink re UBA. See Broeze, British Intercontinental, p. 201, re this firm as passenger brokers to Aust, this firm the only London firm for migrant trade to America, and a major force in Aust trade. Broeze on Brooks, also. http says that by mid-1841, Carter and Bonus with Messrs John Gore and Co and Robert Brooks and others, had established a new line of packets to sail from London on first of month, and Cork on 12th each month, alternatively for Port Phillip and Sydney. See Norwich Mercury, 7 May 1836. Carter and Bonus also had the only regular line of British packets from London to New York, sailing 10th of every month. eg had Andromeda 600 tons Captain Edward Willis; also transported migrants to Canada. Carter and Bonus were at 11 Leadenhall Street, the EICo address, and also had links to NZCo. John Chapman and Co. were at 2 Leadenhall Street.
1841: James Anthoni Brooke of Sarawak. (1803-1868) He was son2 by wife2. update from thepeerage.com - Was his mother part-Indian? Hodson lists. He had an illegitimate son, his groom, Reuben Walker, who was renamed George Brooke. He has Spencer St John as private secretary and Charles Grant (married to Matilda Hay) as personal secretary. He in Pybus book is declared Rajah/owner Sarawak in 1841. Per Mary Hover. Runciman's book. GEC after 1901, Inchcape, p. 147. Stephanie Jones on Inchcape Group. He has a nephew, Hope Brooke. His wife of later years Johnson is his cousin. After his first marriage he was interested in marrying Julia Winstead, John Abel Smith an old friend of Miss Burdett Coutts, is MP for Chichester. He became deeply impressed by Angela Burdett-Coutts before she is a wealthy heiress. He begins to dislike EICo and to admire Raffles. By 1830 he has a shipboard friend, Mr Cruickshank. By the time he is wounded, his parents lived in Bath. He took part with cavalry in First Burmese War. He becomes ensign in EICo army 11 May 1819. His best school friend was James Western. p. 45ff of Cf., Steven Runciman, The White Rajahs: A History of Sarawak from 1841 to 1946. Cambridge University Press, 1960. GEC after 1901, Inchcape, p. 147. Sylvia lady Brooke, Queen of the Head-hunters: an autobiography of HH the Hon. Silvia Lady Brooke, Ranee of Sarawak. London, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1970. See GEC after 1901, Inchape, p. 146 etc. Stephanie Jones on Inchape Group. Runciman's book. GEC after 1901, Inchcape, pp. 146-147.
1841: London convict contractor Bottomley (nd). London convict contractor of 1841 for ship Westmorland from TheShipsList website on Vessels Carrying Convicts From Great Britain, 1839-1846. Item re a female convict, 1832, on Westmoreland, built in Lynne in 1832, barque-rigged, copper sheathed, 450 tons Captain John Brigstock, owned by Bottomly (sic). There is a Wm Bottomly of London 1820 re minor ships business.
1841: VDL merchant John Bell (1790-1841). Wife name unknown. Code-Aust. Profit book - See name Bell in Bloomfield table on Wakefield. He is related to John Calvert (1807-1869) who managed Bell's properties till he moved to Port Phillip. He is captain of Minerva convict ship in 1818. He becomes a director of Bank of VDL and tried to establish a life assurance group. Also re Launceston marine insurance co estab in 1836. His own ADB online entry.
1841 died: Thomas Beale: "Opium mogul". He arrived to Macao aged 17 to work with his brother Daniel. An American book on Harriet Low qv says he had a part-Chinese son named Chay and died in poverty in mysterious circumstances. He is in Fay on opium war, p. 174 in later 1839, still Prussian consul. In 1792, Cox and Beale became Cox, Beale and [Felix] Laurent, Laurent being French from Saint-Hippolyte and in clock and automata trade. Cox and Beale is renamed Beale and Reid in 1793, with David Reid who answered to Danish Govt. He is Prussian consul in 1791 as he arrives and replaces his brother in that role in Keswick chronology. He by 1799-1803 is with major partnerships organised by David Scott re opium to China. Baele and Co., named p. 63 in 1805 interested in ships to China, in Bulley, Bombay ships. See name Beale in Leasks Genealogy, p. 47 for name Beale. By 1797 they are the biggest traders as country traders, dealing with clients in Bombay, Calcutta, London, in Indian cotton, sandalwood, tin, pepper Chinese tea and silk, plus opium see Coates, Macao, pp. 128ff. By 1797 Thomas succeeds Daniel Beale as Prussian consul at Macao. He has a brother, Daniel, see Coates on Macao, Daniel, see Coates on Macao, p. 73. Keswick on Jardine, appendices, this man arrives in Canton in 1791 as secretary to Prussian Consul. See W. E. Cheong, Jardine/M, p. 10, this man has a brother, David, who with Alexr Shanks (the nephew of David Scott qv?) form China agency of Beale and Reid. See W. E. Cheong, An Anglo-Spanish-Portuguese etc, p. 98, Note 5, he is 20 yrs the Prussian consul at Canton. By 1814 some of his partners are Charles Magniac and Alexander Shank(s) (Beale and magniac. Magniac later started Jardine and Matheson, see also, W. E. Cheong, Opium Trade and Agencies in China. S. B. Singh, Agency Houses. p. 13. He had a magnificent garden and aviary. He was found dead and partly decomposed by Portueguese boys in a shallow grave on a beach of Casila Bay in 1841. Since he had bankrupted due to unsuccessful opium speculations, perhaps he was murdered? He owed about five thousand pounds to Missions Etrangeres. Or did he suicide as is the major theory? If suicided, he had arranged earlier with some Chinese that they would bury a dead body the day after the night he saw them. Had offered opium futures as security for loans, but in a falling market, had shaky dealings with Brazil. Does he have son Thomas Chaye Beale who was of Magniac and Co by 1826 and was still alive in 1851 as Portuguese consul at Vice-Consul for Netherlands at Shanghai in 1851? Thomas Weeding was an early partner of William Jardine and wrote in London to Magniac and Co 30 April 1830 re items received by ship Sir Joseph Banks. Weeding was with the firm till 1835-1837 and had offices at 6 Great Winchester St Old Broad St.
1841: Thomas Archer (1823-1905). Married Grace Lindsay Morison. They try for Moreton Bay from August 1841 from Castlereagh River, NSW. Australasian Biographies. See notes on William Walker.
Idea re pathways through the convictism labyrinth from letter re John Parish, David Scott and Robert Charnock, to Cozens and Sturgess, re sets of connections, re pathways that can be associated with shippers and convict contractors. The Charnock set are the Charnock Pathway1.
The Gap, Watson´s Bay, Sydney: Pathway to Duncan Dunbar. (Pathways through the Labyrinth of Convictism)
Isle of Man: Pathway to convict contractor George Moore. (Pathways through the Labyrinth of Convictism)
Pathway to convict contractor Anthony Calvert. (Pathways through the Labyrinth of Convictism)
London: Pathway to convict contractor Alexander Davison = a ship name (Pathways through the Labyrinth of Convictism)
Blackheath, Kent: Pathway to convict contractor GM Macaulay (Pathways through the Labyrinth of Convictism)
Pathway to convict contractor Michael Hogan. More to come (Pathways through the Labyrinth of Convictism)
Pathway to convict contractor Robert Charnock (confidential) More to come. (Pathways through the Labyrinth of Convictism)
Pathway to convict contractor James Duncan (Pathways through the Labyrinth of Convictism)
Pathway to convict contractor London Missionary Society (Pathways through the Labyrinth of Convictism)
Pathway to convict contractor Duncan Campbell (Pathways through the Labyrinth of Convictism)
Pathway to convict contractor Chapmans (Pathways through the Labyrinth of Convictism)
Blackheath, Kent: Pathway to convict contractor Samuel Enderby Senior - More to come (Pathways through the Labyrinth of Convictism)
strengthen all info in timelines re early links Sydney-London by various ways and means. including focus on ¨problem person¨ in PAF
Make a list for Gary of post-1800 convict contractors we know least about.
1818: Samuel Francis Somes (1786-1829). By 1818 is active as a convict contractor - http on WH Auden - Family Ghosts. Byrnes, The BC, p. 97.
1800 or so, put in re James Sykes d 1816 and Thomas Stilwell (not Stillwell) the navy agents
1870: Thomas William Grant (1793-1848).
1873: Shipping magnate Frederick Richards Leyland . His own wikipedia page. Information on his children by Wooster after his split with Frances Dawson is from Leyland genforum items. See his Oxford DNB online entry. He in a website is of Prince's Gate, shipowner, connoisseur, art patron. He is early a partner in the Bibby Line, but started on his own in 1873 when he acquired 21 of the Bibby ships. His executors sold a fleet of 22 vessels to John Reeves Ellerman, Christopher Furness and Henry O'Hagan, who were later overrun by J. P. Morgan of International Marine Mercantile Co, USA. Ellerman later formed the London, Liverpool and Ocean Shipping Co. Ltd., located at Mooregate, London, with directors being the chair John Reeves Elerman, M. W. Mattinson and Val Prinsep. After acquisitions, by 190s became Ellerman Lines Ltd, which operated five more more shipping lines, much used by Govt during WWI. See a website on Records of the Ellerman Lines Ltd., at http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/02082105.html - a genforum items says there are Leylands of Leyland and Bullins banking fame. Update from website on McCann of Milton Keynes, UK accessed 28-9-2007.
1866 - Banker Bertram Raikes Currie (1827-1896) He was son2. A banker/partner with Glyn's bank (Cassis, City Bankers, p. 25, p. 100.) He helped save Barings in the crisis of 1890. Said to be a bitter and ironical atheist. He was a close friend of Baron1 Revelstoke, In May fix date 1684 9 May 1784?) arose talks between Currie and Sir John Lubbock the most influential partner in Robarts, Lubbock and Co. Sir Charles Mills heard about this. There arose, firm, Glyn, Mills and Currie, family heads being Lord1 Wolverton, Sir Charles Mills and Mr Raikes Currie. Scots banks wished to buy out this bank, when arose problems with the collapse of Overend, Gurney and Co. which had been founded in 1816 or so, just after Waterloo, they were at 64 Lombard St and failed for 5,000,000 in May 10, 1866. . Fulford on Glyn's, p. 187. He is of Glyn, Mills and Currie and Co., bankers. he was regarded as a useful financial authority by Gladstone and at the Treasury. see R. Fulford on Glyns, pp. 199ff. Y. Cassis on bankers, p. 228.
- Arthur Flower (1847-1911) of Union Bank. He is son2. thepeerage.com. He and his son Hugh are both on Board of Bank of Australasia. He is noted p. 31 of Merrett on ANZ Bank. See re his daughter Constance in Burke's LG for Barclay of Higham. He is of 36 Princes Gate. See his wife in p. 61 of Broeze in Imperial Axis article. He becomes salaried chairman of Union Bank of Australia, and had a policy of caution which hurt the bank's operations in Aust, says Daunton, p. 137. Broeze on Brooks.
1872 re Daniel Gurney whose "Thoughts on Banking" was published in 1872.
1872 - 1872 Copper Miner Meyer Guggenheim. He is born Lengnau, Switzerland, and emigrates aged 19 to US where he has seven sons, settles in Philadelphia, in 1872 establishes Swiss embroideries importer Guggenheim and Pulaski, later Gugenheim and Sons, in 1888 this company sold its lace business and entered copper mining, smelting, forming Philadelphia Smelting and Refining Co in 1888. Smelters in Philadelphia, Mexico and Colorado. Ore deposits acquired throughout world.
1869: Sir Thomas Dakin. He is London Lord Mayor 1869/1870. Wholesale and export druggist, also in the tea trade. Lectured on chemistry and electricity. Had four daughters.
1865: Death of Captain Robert Eastwick (1772-1865) His parents noted in a genforum item. In Bulley, Bombay Ships, p. 68, his wife Lucy King has a brother-in-law Captain Kent. He is friends with John Palmer of India. Enetered EICo service in 1792. To Bombay, owned and captained ship Endeavour which the French frigate La Forte captured in 1799. Lost his ship and sailed variously to Bussora, Sumatra, Sydney, Norfolk Island, China, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, England. He is about 55 when marries third time. In 1824 he makes "fastest ever voyage made" from Portsomo to Singapore. He is more or less bankrupt due to bad luck twice before he makes it a third time. He starts in South Whale Fishery as an articled clerk, and (Bulley, p. 215), being financed by some Bengal merchants, etc., not named, learned navigation, after another whaling voyage in 1791 he is pressed into navy then out, at 19, he is fifth mate on HCS/EICo Barwell, already a widower with wife one, wife one has an uncle also dead by 1791, owner of one and part-owner of another East Indiaman, and when in India at Bombay he left EICo service and joined ship "Hormuzeer" Capt Meeks for cotton and opium to China. He then often sails for Parsees, or Forbes and Co. of Bombay. He dies at London Home 39 Thurloe Square. He marries three times, in 1829 for third and last time. Bulley, Bombay Country ships, p. 224. Note death date of his wife, 1824. See a retired Capt Eastwick asked by Charles Forbes per Iseke about 1825 to take up a new trade via Bombay, for Holland-China. See Abott and Nairn, p. 274. Re ship Betsy, see Hainsworth, Traders, p. 89. Hainsworth, Builders, p. 64. See Abott and Nairn, p. 274. Re ship Betsy, see Hainsworth, Traders, p. 89. Hainsworth, Builders, p. 64. Re his son William the director of EICo, from Iskeke - Iseke reports that in 1871 Census of Brighton, Sussex, at "Fairlawn", Dyke Road, is a William J. Eastwick, aged 62, born London Midx, Captain in HM Army, retired member of Council of India, his wife is Mary A. H. Eastwick, aged 66 born in Calcutta. They also have a cook born in Reid, Herts, aged 36, named Mary Pattle. He is Dir EICo. He is educated at Winchester College. Bulley, Bombay ships, p. 224. Was blind for last 33 years of his life. His entry in Dictionary of Indian Biography. Cf., H Compton, A Master Mariner, 1891. See Abott and Nairn, p. 274. Re ship Betsy, see Hainsworth, Traders, p. 89. Hainsworth, Builders, p. 64.
1863: Thomas Henry Devitt (1800-1860) and his son Sir Thomas Lane Devitt (fix). thepeerage,com. He is probably Thomas Henry Devitt qv. See notes for Joseph Moore qv of Devitt and Moore. A link to Buckle Bagster and Buchanan who paid Devbitt and Moore an unsatisfactory small salary, 120 pounds per year. Re Thomas Henry Devitt. Code-red. He is probably the convict contractor. He is of Hackney, Midx. Burke's P&B for Devitt. Cf., Capt. A. G. Course, Painted Ports: The Story of the Ships of Devitt and Moore. London, Hollis and Carter, 1961. Early worked at Buckle and Bagster (given as Buckle and Baxter in a http), at their office at Mark Lane near Fenchurch Street, where he met Joseph Moore another clerk there. Dissatisfied with Buckles by 1838 they set out a shipbroking firm, had eleven ships, had 39 ships by 1840. and Duncan Dunbar II gave them his work till he died in 1862. In 1863 they bought two ships from Dunbars, A later co-partner in firm is Howson Charles Devitt, a cousin of Sir Thomas. On 1 Feb 1929, Mr E. Verner and H. E. Verner establish Verner, Son and Eggar, of 3 Billiter Ave., London and take over whole business of Devitt and Moore. When SA produced copper,wich DandM sent to Welsh smelters (is that to Gower and Logans?) - while Aust wool fell to AL Elder and Co, the Orient Line and to Devitt and Moore. Devitt and Moore began in 1863, had new ship built Sunderland City of Adelaide 791 tons with shares for Adelaide shipping agents Joseph and Daniel Harrold and Adelaide businessman Henry Martin and ships first captain Scotsman David Bruce. Devitt had died in 1860 but Joseph Moore Snr included their sons Thomas L. Devitt and Joseph Moore Jnr in firm. This firm owns (A. D. Fraser on Dangar, p. 99) ships La Hogue, Parramatta, Sobroan, the Macquarie, the Rodney, and the Collingwood. and part owns the Dangar Gedye and Co ship Hawkesbury see Capt Sayers qv. On May 22, 1868, Mr. E. Homan in London writes to Mr E. Vickery in Sydney, who then saw Fred. Holkham Dangar, that Homan has fallen in love with The South Australian, a ship now loading for Sydney, and she will be the model for a new ship to be built, of which Devett and Moore qv will take a one-quarter interest, Homan one-quarter, Williams (?) one quarter and E. Vickery in Sydney one quarter, see A. D. Fraser on Dangar, Gedye and Malloch, p. 96.
1862: Governor of Tasmania Thomas Browne (1807-?). Code-red. He is later Gov Bermudas. From a brief note in Heaton. He become Governor of Tasmania on 16 June, 1862.
1862: US Consul to Calcutta John Wilham Linzee (). Does he have a company Dutts Linzee and Co, does usual commission business to America and worked with commissariat contracts with British East India Govt till 1861. Contractor? Appointed Consul in 1862. Succeeded as Consul by N. P. Jacobs.
1861: Sydney merchant Benjamin Buchanan. In the 1850s a partner with Smith, Campbell and Co. by 1860/1861 a partner in Mort and Co, Later director and a London representative of Goldsborough Mort and Co, director of Peak Downs Copper Mining Co. Of Mort's Dock and Engineering Co. Ltd. Of New South Wwales Fresh Food and Ice Co. Liverpool and London Fire and Life Insurance. Sydney Exhcange Co. Barnard's book, p. 226. Cited in Barnard, Visions and Profits on TS Mort, 1961. Appendix II, Biographical Notes.Noted p. 64 in Salsbury/Sweeney, Stockbrokers, he comes from Scotland to Sydney in 1840s.
1860s: Henry Clew (1834-1923) US private banker. He made a fortune in US civil war as financier and private banker selling government bonds. Later wrote a variety of books on financial life and Wall Street.
1862 circa: Shipbuilder Edward James Harland (1831-1895). He built ships for the Confederate Civil War effort. His own wikipedia page. MP for Belfast. Partner in Harland and Wolff, building Atlantic liners. Started as apprentice with Robert Stephen and Co Newcastle 1846-1851. Campaigned against Home Rule. Seldom spoke in Parliament except on naval issues. Had a brother an Anglican Revd. Online list by D. W. Bebbington, Professor History, University of Stirling, Unitarian Members of Parliament in the Nineteenth Century, a Catolague. nd.
1862: London MP John Masterman (1781-1862) Director EICo. Of Leyton, Essex, a banker. There was an emigrant ship to Australia the John Masterman arriving 2 August 1861 to Sydney. He assisted Caroline Chisholm. His bank was much concerned with C19th railway finance, in which Bensons invested as linked to Kleinworts. Masterman. Peters, Mildred and Masterman. http on Bannerman genealogy. Once a Director of EICo. If he had bank Masterman etc, see re employee/partner Gerard Scorer married to line of Sir Wm Winter of navy. Of 35 Nicholas Lane, Lombard St, London. a Dep-Lt of London. A conservative. He was of firm Masterman, Peters, Mildred and Co, London. See UK website on descendants of William Braithwaite.
1853: Osbert Forsyth (1779-1853 and see dr m to Dunbar Capt James Molison). Contractor. Code-Aust. See notes from Michael Rhodes qv. Osbert Forsyth.... SHIPBROKER, FORMERLY OF LONDON AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH. LIVED IN CORNHILL IN LONDON, AND ALSO CLAPHAM RISE. WHEN HE RETIRED FROM BUSINESS HE LIVED FIRST IN ELGIN UNTIL AFTER THE 1851 CENSUS, AND THEN MOVED TO HUNTLY WHERE HE DIED. OBIT FROM THE ELGIN COURIER of 11 MARCH 1853 'AT HUNTLY ON THE 25TH FEBRUARY, OSBERT FORSYTH, ESQ, LATE OF GREYFRIARS, ELGIN. THE DECEASED WAS AT ONE TIME AN EXTENSIVE SHIPOWNER, AND WAS FOR MANY YEARS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SIR JOHN PIRIE, LATE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON. BY HIS WIDOW WHO SURVIVES HIM, AND WHO IS THE DAUGHTER OF THE LATE CAPT. REID, BANFF, HE LEAVES 2 SONS AND 2 DAUGHTERS, ALL GROWN UP AND SETTLED IN LIFE.' His estate returned for Probate shows he ownd 16/64ths of a ship called 'Ellen Simson,' with the home port shown as Aberdeen. Also he owned the Grey Friars at Elgin, a house he inherited from his father in law, James Reid. This house was tenanted in a furnished state at the time of death. He had moved to Huntly shortly before his death, and probably to be nursed by his family. Details of the ship are as follows; ELLEN SIMSON, BARQUE, WOOD, built 1841, Shipyard number 376, length 106-5, beam 23-4, draft 17-3, The Walter Hood yard, opened in 1839, was east of Halls', next to Pocra jetty. Walter Hood had trained as a shipwright and was the yard's manager and designer until his death in 1862. Many of the sailing vessels for George Thompson's Aberdeen White Star Line were built by Hood. These vessels sailed mainly to Australia in the emigrant and wool trade. Aberdeen Line clippers built by Hood included such famous names as Neptune, Queen of Nations and Thermopylae. Phoenician, built in 1847, was the first of the Thompson vessels with a reputation for speed. At the time of its launch in August 1862, the wooden clipper Kosciusko was one of the largest sailing ships ever fitted out in Aberdeen. However, Thermopylae, the great rival of Cutty Sark, was the most famous vessel constructed at the Hood yard. Walter Hood died in 1862 after slipping in the dark and falling into the harbour. The guns of Torry Battery were fired in the hope that the concussion would bring the body to the surface but grappling irons were needed to recover the corpse.
Sydney merchant James Levick (1816-1884). Does he have a sister or sister-in-law Mary in South Africa with a dr Edith and son Henry? Of Sheffield Yorks. Is he an ironmonger? James Levick (1816-1884 died at Hunters Hill [Ellesmere?] Sydney). He has a grandaughter named Florence who as second wife married Sir William Owen (b. 1834) father of Sir Langer Meade Loftus Owen (1862-1935) by his first wife Elizabeth Charlotte Cary. He is later of West Hill House. A colonial merchant with partnerships in Australia and South Africa. When Averilda died he remarried. Moved to Hill House, Streatham Common. Is he connected with Hankeys? He was associated with Hookfield Grove, Clay Hill, at Epsom. Which he sold to Sir Isaac Braithwaite in 1869. He assisted Caroline Chisholm. Does he have dr Emmeline? He emigrated to Australia in 1871 and died at Hunters Hill Sydney 12 Nov 1884 aged 68. He is member of first Committee re Family Colonization Loan Society, see Fifty-One Pieces of Wedding Cake, pp. 272-273. He had wealthy neighbours, Knipe. IGI sources listed on a genforum item. There were Levicks at Malta Genealogy, at Aden and Cairo. Item re greatest ever mining swindle in the colonies.
1850: Banker financier Thomas Chaplin Breillat (1803-1873). Does he have dr Frances? This man is a partner in Montefiore, Joseph and Breillat of Sydney, insurance men, he is a co-founder of the Royal Exchange, Sydney. He lived at Newtown, Sydney. english born. See W. J. Lyons, Promiment Business figures of Sydney in the 1850s, [Part 2 of Notes on the History of the Royal Exchange]., pp. 1-11 in Business Archives Council of Australia, Vol. 1, May, 1956.
1851: T. W. Smith They owned the ship De Castella arrived on ?, Marlborough, crew the previous year had all been Lascars, Capt Allen Young, 1500 tons, and De Castella thought she was of the Dunbar line, not so, see T&W Smith. She is A1 at Lloyd's and and by 1851 regarded as one of the finest ships in British maritime.
1851: Bombay merchant Robert Ryrie. Stephanie Jones on Inchcape, p. 29. It seems he is a partner of Inchcape till 1888. He is active about Bombay as a merchant by 1851,
1851: Netsurf on building of first railway Howrah Station in Calcutta in 1851. Which engineers? Name Turnbull. Is it the same rail station still in use?
1857: London Lord mayor William McArthur (1809-1887). Who is his wife? Spent his life involved with "business, imperialism and religion". After discussion of Caroline Chisholm. Woolen draper, then assisted by his brother Alexr who struck gold in Australia. He is London Lord Mayor London in 1880/1881. MP. Aust trade wool trader/Mcarthur/ Lord mayor Code-Aust. He is son of a Wesleyan minister in Donegal. this man a force in Bank of Australia and chairman of Star life Assurance Company. VIP see notes for his brother. This man took the already-existing Australian wool business from Ireland to London in 1857, so the brother must have been in Australia by 1857. Visited Australia in 1876. V. Hope, p. 154.
1857: Queensland pioneer John Atherton (1837-1913). A website on newspaper cuttings says wife of JT Atherton, of Wiva, Wide Bay, has baby by 27 Aug 1892, a dr, Copper was discovered in the Chillagoe area in 1888. (See Aust Encyc entry.) This man was born Wigan, Lancashire, his father Edmund Atherton died in 1863 and his wife with seven children came to NSW in 1844 and went to Bald Blair, near Armidale, NSW, In 1857 John and his brother James trekked to Rockhampton, acquired Mount Hedlow Station. In 1873 John Atherton took up land on the Burdekin River, same year gold found on Palmer River, and he grazed cattle at Mareeba. He found tin in 1879. William Atherton a son of John, took up Chillagoe Station and in 1888 he found Chillagoe copper ore deposits and silver lead at Manguna.
1850: London Lord Mayor Sir John Musgrove (1793-1881). He was London Lord Mayor London 1850-1851. Auctioneer and house agent doing well out of rising property prices.
1850s: Philip William Flower (1810-1872) He assisted Caroline Chisholm. Philip Flower died 1872 - There was lately a Montefiore Street in the development. Check the A-Z. He began Battersea re-development in 1862. After 1850 arises mention of name Curtis (?). Furzedown is his place at Streatham, Surrey. He has offices P. F. Flower and Co. at Prince's Street, then at 62 Moorgate, then at 6 Moorgate; continues with firm at Port Jackson and Melbourne. He had a collier's quay and other London wharves, plus two office blocks, Weaver's Hall in Basinghall St and Dane's Inn chambers off the Strand; plus lands in Surrey and Westminister, Furzedown, Streatham in Surry. Firm in PJ invests in sheep stations and sugar plantations. From 1834 he has a ships chandlers in PJ. a bank, and is an insurance Co director. His brother Horace remained in Aust shipping wool, tallow, gold to his brothers wharves in London. PW's first two children born in Aust, rest at Tooting, London, See Metcalf on development of Battersea, pp. 27ff. He is private land developer, for Battersea's first decade. Stenton, Brit Parlts, Vol. 2, p. 124. Stenton, Brit Partls, Vol. 2, p. 155. See Priscilla Metcalf, The Park Town Estate and the Battersea Tangle" a peculiar piece of Victorian London property development and its background. London Topographical Society Publication, No. 121, 1978. See Metcalf on development of Battersea, notes taken. See Dakin, WA, pp. 116ff. He came to Aust in 1834 but returned home to London where he stayed from 1858. He is of Furze Down, Streatham, Surrey. M. J. Daunton, Australian Merchants in the City of London, 1840-1890, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Collected Seminar Papers, No. 30, The City and the Empire, Vol. 1, 1987. copy held. GEC, Peerage, Battersea, p. ? Stenton, Brit Partls, Vol. 2, p. 124. Broeze article on Imperial Axis in Push from the Bush. Also, Broeze on Brooks. He is member of first Committee re Family Colonization Loan Society, see Fifty-One Pieces of Wedding Cake, pp. 272-273.
1851: John (Roberts) Levey (b.1819). He left Australia behind in 1851, rights to his land going to the Colonization Assurance Co. (Frederick Mangles, LS Magnus, secretary is B. R. Pemberton, solicitor is H. Masterman of 17 Bucklersbury, London) which was formed in 22 March 1850 see Hasluck, Thos Peel, pp. 214ff. From about age 14 he is in care of Rev. Stephen Bouchier of Bishop's Storford. (See Hasluck, Thos Peel, p. 193.) His name is John Levey Robarts, In 1851 he went to Swan River to obtain land from Peel that had rightly belonged to his own father. See Berryman's article on Founding of Swan River. Broeze on Brooks, p. 43.
1851: New Zealand Merchant John Logan Campbell (fix dates). Burke's P&B for Campbell of Aberuchill. www.angelfire.com/realm3/ruvignyplus/006.html He has a dr Mrs Winifred Murray. In 1851-1852 he writes to John Chapman of Chapman and Hall, London. He is of the Campbells of Aberuchill and Kilbryde. The Auckland Savings bank begins with inaugural meet in his store, Brown and Campbell in June 1846. See He is son of an Edinburgh doctor and himself became a doctor, though wanting to retire from NZ back to Scotland. He had EICo connections. He started in trade, went into land, promoted Bank of New Zealand, New Zealand and South British Insurance companies, later, liquor wholesaling. He tried to return to Europe but had misfortunes and had to return to Aukland. Brooking's essay on Scots in NZ in R. A. Cage's book, p. 178. He is of the financial elite which dominated the Bank of New Zealand, the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company. the New Zealand Insurance Co. He had two surviving girls, Ida and Winifred. He is partner with William Brown qv. See R. C. J. Stone, Young Logan Campbell. Auckland, Auckland University Press. 1982. NZ Dict Biog, p. 67. See also, stirnet.com file16 on Campbell.
time of Crimean War - Thomas Brassey (1805-1870). Contractor for rail for Crimean War. He becomes the greatest international civil engineering contractor of his time. thepeerage.com. http update. He has three sons. He is apprentice to a surveyor then buys the business. Joseph Locke invites him to build a section of Grand Junction Railway and he he later builds/ completes London /Southampton line. Contracts here for £4 million and 3000 men. With new partner William Mackenzie he builds Paris-Rouen rail, other in France, in Netherlands, Italy, Prussia, Spain, Grand Trunk rail in Canada (with S. M. Peto, E. L. Bettsand W. Jackson), also Europe, India, Australia, South America, final work force 75,000. He also had interests in coal, ironworks and dockyards. (Encycylopedia Britannica item on this man.) This man's ancestors arrived with William the Conqueror. In 1855 is pened Victoria Dock for steamships, constructed with Brassey, Peto and Betts. In the banking problem of 1866, Brassey survived but Peto lost up to one million. At his death he was worth about £3.2 million. His son's ADB entry, as Gov of ? A website says it is through this railway activity that the Brassey family is seen in Australia, in 1865, one Thomas Brassey with Peto and Betts constructs a rail line in Queensland, and due to this one Richard Brassey settled in Queensland. (His entry in English DNB 2004 edition by David Brooke.)
time of Crimean war - Rail contractor Edward Betts (1815-1872) Civil engineer. His own wikipedia page. Rail contractor with Peto qv and Thomas Brassey re Crimean War. Betts especially helped by organizing the needed shipping for the building of the Crimean Railway. He bought the "palatial" Preston Hall near Aylesford in Kent and had a staff of 18 there. Had a home in London at 29 Tavistock Square and was later at Great George St Westminster. Betts and Peto struck trouble with the banking crisis/panic of 1866 and Betts later got only minor jobs. Was sent to Egypt for his health and died at Aswan. Died worth less than 16,000 pounds.
Financier Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid (1778-1859). He assisted Caroline Chisholm. Dealer in precious metals. Moccata and Goldsmid, Bullion broker to Bank of England and EICo. Financier. His own wikipedia entry. He is UK's first Jewish Baronet. See Burke's Peerage for D'Avigdor-Goldsmid, Barts. Burke's Landed Gentry for Sebag-Montefiore. He is UK's first Jewish baronet. (GEC, Peerage, Goldsmid, p. 339. See Jewish Encyclopedia online.) He is one of the founders of London Docks.
1850: NZ trader Henry Hickley (active 1850). Died aged 47. Died at his mother´s residence at Brighton. He is of firm Henry H Willis and Co of 3 Crosby Square, London and of Knoll, Blackheath. Is it Arthur Willis and Gann initially? Is his wife = Josephine? See re Chisholm for more An Arthur Willis is also a London name here, p. 131. Immigrants to NZ come on Willis' ships, a lin eof Packets London-to- NZ. See p. 133, the most important ship brokers in the NZ trade, had sailing, Clara, Simlah, Cashmere, Columbus, Lord. W. Bentinck, Barbara Gordon, Sir Edward paget, Victory, Creswell, Stately and Moon. In 1860 they had out Zealandia, Caduceus, Clontarf, Egmont, Moon, Hoseph Fletcher, Cashmere, Cresswell, Hastings, Strathallan, and Harwood. A post-1860 list is Burmah, Caduceus, Cashmere, Chapman, Clontarf, Cresswell, Egmont, Green Jacket, Clontarf, Cresswell, Hastings, Henbury, Joseph Fletcher, Josephine Willis, Maori, Mary Ann, Matoaka, Nimrod, Royal Surat, Spray of the Ocean, The Egmont, The Mariner, Triton, Zealandia, Victory. See Stone on John Logan Campbell, variously, p. from 1845 are London agent for Brown and Campbell of NZ. See Broeze on Brooks, p. 337, this man a leading London shipbroker and owner in the NZ trade. There was a line, Willis, Gann and Co which had a clerk, Walter Saville, who left to start a line (of chartered ships) with Robert Shaw (also ex of Willis-Gann) in 1859. Cf, David Saille, David, Sail to New Zealand: The Story of Shaw, Saville and Co., 1858-1882. Cf., I. G. Stewart, The Ships That Served New Zealand, Vol. 1, British and European Lines, Wellington NZ, A. H. and A. W. Reed, 1964. R. D. Fildes, The Ships That Served Australia and New Zealand. Sydney, Searail, 1975-1977. Perhaps this section needs more re Shaw-Saville? Arthur Willis of Crosby Square was partner of Joseph Scaife Willis of Australia and of Henry Hickley Willis plus Arthur Willis Jnr.
Sir Richard Green (1803-1863). His own wikipedia page. There is a statue of him in Poplar, London. He was an eldest surviving son. He is Richard Green in NMM website on collections, 1803-1863- (Death date from Chatterton, Mercantile Marine, p. 146.) He is probably-part owner of Blackwall Yard bought from Sir Robert Wigram. (Stenton, British Parliamentarians, Vol. 2, p. 145. Stuart Rankin, Maritime Rotherhithe: History Walk. 2004. London tourist industry publication. Contains notes on dockowners, etc. Re R. and H. Green and Silley Weir Ltd., had repair facilities at Greenland Quay, the berth used eg tempe WWII by Cunard-White Star Line transAtlantic steamers. Richard was educated at University of Bonn. Joined shipowners partnership Richard and Henry Green, later senior partner of that "eminent firm". He was a Magistrate for Middlesex and a director of E&W India Dock Co. Shipowner and philanthropist.
1844: This file is for a major relisting of old text files re persons associated with this Company.
Is this a chain of unintended unity, possibly, re the J. P. Morgan loan to Australia in 1925 re Australian war debt of up to 350 million pounds
We can say from a PAF print-out on links by 1890s with Morgans and Smiths of Smith/Payne/Smiths, some of the following. That the father of John Henry Cox had been marketing clocks/automatons to the Chinese by 1781, during the Am Rev, later his son John Henry Cox went to the east to collect debts, became tangled with a group of Europeans/Scots/English who were "consuls" for non-British European nations. Link of Cox and Magniac. This gave part-rise to a separate "breed" of Asia houses which began to deal in opium. [see rise of Penang]. Now look at the Grenfell Bankers, links to names Bulteel, Lubbock bankers, Glyn bankers, Barons 1 and 2 Wolverton, and Charles Pascoe Grenfell (1790-1867) a director of Bank of England, and a director of St Katherine's Dock; another banker Charles William Grenfell (1823-1861) is married to Georgiana Lascelles, in a line generally producing the writer Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), and historian James Anthony Froude (1818-1894) who once toured Australia. Early in Asia was Beale, then Smith/Magniac, then ... ? One mystifying Smith involved is Oswald Smith (1794-1863) of Magniac Smith, a son of George II Smith (1765-1836) and MP, wife unknown. In the same generation as Oswald is one John Henry Smith (1795-1897) of a China house, and of Magniac Smith, who is of the same generation as T. C. Smith (dates unknown) of Magniac Smith, they are of the same generation ass John Abel Smith married to Jervoise. In the same generation is Martin Tucker Smith (1803-1880, married to Louisa Ridley, a link which produces later, a grand-daughter married to Charles Hambro (1872-1947), MP and an associate of J. P. Morgans and Grenfell, and the Mills bankers are also relatives; and so are some Thorntons of Clapham sect) an MP and an investor with the Australian Agricultural Company. In lines, another investor in AACo is Sir John William Lubbock (1774-1840), Bart2, whose daughter Cecile married Riversdale Francis Grenfell (1864-1954) a descendant of Pascoe Grenfell (1761-1838) banker. >> One Smith with Smith/Payne/Smith's becoming involved here was one John Abel Smith (1801-1871, of Magniac Smith), married to Anne Jervoise) the son of John II Smith (1767-1842), of Blendon Hall, Sussex; and a later appearance in that line is a governor of Western Australia, Sir Gerard Smith (1839-1920), KCMG, whose wife remains unknown [fix, find her]. The son of John Abel Smith (1801-1871) was a governor of the Bank of England, Hugh Colin Smith (1836-1910), and the son of Hugh Colin of Bank of England was Hugh Vivian Smith (1867-1956) and First Lord Bicester, who was with J. P. Morgans by 1910. Also later with Morgans is partner Edward Charles Grenfell (1870-1941) Baron 1 St Just, who was married to Florence Henderson qv. Baron 1 St Just is also linked to Yules. Florence Henderson is a dr of a director of BofE G. W Henderson. A PAF drop for Ch 1 of Honours thesis will be 1205; 17298; 2526; 11841; 44012; 10513. ends that series. this is a list of rin nos. to drop into z for Ch. 1 beginning re slavery names. 10513, 16807, 30152, 38821, 7976, 5618, 11746, 38733, 16207, 35390, 37947, 11841, 5556. his wife's father, 1498, Commissioner Bigge's background, 1211, 1089, 857, 1176, 1177, 1229, 12330, 1655, 1820, Crockat-Nutt-Macaulay-Angerstein connection, 1222. 1229, 1730, 1803, 2303, 2393, 12330, 12330, John Black River + Claiborne and Maurice Thomson + John Dee, 5301, 15828, 38289, Willis re Cutty Sark and Coolie, note that somewhere, a table exists, designating the Australia trade as only post-1786 section. Cf, on wealthy scots, see B. Britton, Wealthy Scots, 1876-1913, Bulletin Inst. A List, for 1834 see Holder on Bank of NSW, Vol. 1, p. 107, re BANK NSW clients and whaling industry, Richard Jones the president of Bank NSW and MLA as Richard Jones and Co, William Walker, Aspinall Brown and Co; Cooper, Levey and Street, Lamb and Parbury, Rapsey and Mitchell, Samuel Lyons, John Jones, Philip Cavenagh, Prosper de Mestre, J. B. Bettington, Robert Campbell Jnr. A List, in Holder, Bank of NSW, Vol. 1, p. 130, in 1844, some of the shareholders in Bank of NSW were Mary Reibey, Rbt Campbell Jnr, Rbt Campbell Tertius, William Hutchinson the 1844 vice-pres and his own son-in-law John Rose Holden, WC Wentworth, Richard Jones bankrupt by 1844, James Underwood, G. T. Savage, Samuel Lyons the auctioneer, William Lachlan Macquarie Redfern the son of Dr William Redfern... >>>A List, in Butlin on ANZ, p. 15, of early directors of the Bank of Van Diemen's Land of 1828, inc chairman W. E. Lawrence, James Cox, P. A. Mulgrave, T. Williams, W. Barnes, J. H. Reibey, A. Thomson, R. Dry, T. Landale, J. W. Gleadow. See Butlin, on ANZ, p. 23, and notes for Thomas Potter Macqueen, in 18 May 1833, founders of Bank of Australasia were Rt Hon Henry Ellis, Capt Sir Andrew Pellet Green, Edward Blount, Jacob Montefiore, Richard Norman, William Alexander Mackinnon, John Studholm Brownrigg, Oliver Farrer, Charles Barry Baldwin, John Wright, Thomas Potter Macqueen, Samuel Eustace Morgan, Matthew Boulton Rennie, Walter Stuart Davidson. Ellis chaired most early meetings. Wright and Co were appointed bankers and Horatio Montefiore the stockbroker. In Butlin on ANZ, p. 56, is a list of those present at a first meeting, 6 July 1837, re Angas and Oakden, Union Banking Co, in London, present were John James Cummins, John Gore, Charles E. Mangles, John Rundle MP, James Russell Todd and Oakden, resolving to establish the Union Bank of Australasia. Charles Hindley also to be a director. Some provincial names do not appear to be of interest. 1845 the storeship of Franklin's arctic expedition. See British Intercontinental article by Broeze, Broeze in Brit Intercontinental. p. 204 sees a truly world-wide shipping market, the "vast spaces of the Indian Ocean and East Asia formed one great freight market", and when to this is added the trans-Pacific ballast runs, the market becomes world-wide. Broeze in Brit Intercontinental says p. 207, Note 40, "The most neglected aspect of British emigration to Australia in this period [from 1840] is the intimate connection between the colonization ventures and the shipping and mercantile world." [Byrnes agrees wholeheartedly]. Broeze in Brit Intercontinental. p. 202 says clearly, p. 202, that "Indeed, Australia was clearly used as a back door into the great monopoly [EICo] of the Shipping Interest. This privileged group was, however, not slow in reacting to the influx of outsiders, and presently ships husbands of East Indiamen, like Mangles and Larkins, entered the Australian trade. This trend was confirmed when the EICO in 1813 lost her monopoly for all Asian trades except that with China." Comments also on shippers using direct outward trade, such as Gladstone, Baring and Huth, as "merchant-adventurers". VIP page 203 of Brit Intercontinental, Broeze says, "For a very important part Australian cargoes represented, directly or indirectly, repayments of imports or remittances for credits and investments." Very few firms were so fortunate as Buckles, Bagster and Buchanan, whose agent Bowman in the 1820s could collect so much cargo that almost all their ships could return direct from Australia. the Australian Co of Edinburgh and Leith experienced grave difficulties and was forced to divert its ships and stores in Tasmania to other trades; and of all 14 ships of this Co that landed in Hobart between 1824 and 1830, only one returned directly from Aust to London; and its last nine ships had to go by Java, Manila, Calcutta, one via Brazil. similarly for mangles ships to Western Australia. Broeze p. 198 says no ship ever left for Aust partially laden or in ballast, as it had cargo or any paying mix of passengers incl migrants, convicts or troops, so the voyage "had a significance fully in its own right, in marked contrast to most other outward intercontinental trades, but the shipmen could then have had no financial interest in cargoes, Broeze p. 198 says that originally, shipmen dealt with Admiralty (Thomas Shelton, that is) but later a few brokers dealt with Adml, serving as intermediaries, specialists such as Joseph Lachlan or Chapman, and some owners unnamed emerging who specialised in govt charters: Thomas Ward, Joseph Somes, Duncan Dunbar or the several Chapman Brothers appear in almost every list of govt charters. Broeze p. 194 says Surrey of 1820-1822 brought mixed manufactures from England to Aust, wheat from Chile to Sydney, oil from Macquarie Island to Sydney, then took Gov Macquarie and his retinue home to England. China trade was opened to private trade in 1833/1834. Broeze p. 9-196 says ships westing from Swan River, not Sydney, Adelaide and Tasmania took sugar from mono-culture Mauritius for Britain. After 1811, some ships might have taken rice from eg Bali to China. Broeze p. 195 says convict ships would have taken cargoes from India such as saltpetre and indigo; so see re names in indigo in India; also that many shipping firms dealing with Aust also dealt with India. Broeze p. 193 remarks on seasonality of wool trade, re shearing, creating a demand for shipping early Nov-late Dec. Note early in ships to Australia section that in 1772, DC had tried to organise convict shipping to seasonal questions and failed. Broeze p. 189 Broeze states
on "the unique place Australia filled in the employment of British shipping past the Cape of Good Hope during the first half of the nineteenth century"... during a time when ocean shipping was being emancipated from its mercantile connections." This remark Byrnes feels suggests that with trade to early NSW, the very business of carrying convicts was in the maritime sense, a business. p. 189, Broeze says, "Ideally, the shipping movements of all Australian ports should be completely reconstructed." This is so, Byrnes feels, since Bateson emphasises not the departure dates of ships, but their arrival dates; thesis written with this clearly in mind as info is rearranged. p. 189, B says, correctly, "one should think of Australia as one entity, in which the individual ports formed the interlocking parts of the larger region of employment". this is correct too, and is why Broeze speaks of Australia and New Zealand as "ANZ". Notes from Antony Brown on Lloyd's names. Brook Watson p. 54 is chairman of Lloyd's from 1797 to 1806. Richard Baker at Lloyds in Walpole's time. some of the 79 Lloyd's men moving chambers in the 1770s (1771) included Benjamin Eyre, Marmaduke Peacock, Gregory Olive, Nicholas Luytens, Thomas Sutton, John Nutt [VIP]; and Brook Watson noted for his probity. Also, Joshua Mendes da Costa and Godhard Hagen. Martin can Mierop. Then John Julius Angerstein. Angerstein began his career in the London counting house of Russia Merchant, Andrew Thompson, a friend of Angerstein's father, then he became a junior partner in a Cornhill broking firm unnamed. Angerstein had connected with Lloyd's from 1756, when he set up in Old Broad Street. in 1781, Lloyd's names had heavy losses to sustain from the American War, re stores lost in Rodney's raid. by 1778 there were 109 subscribers doing business at Lloyd's. Angerstein's portrait was painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence, now hangs in Lloyd's. Angerstein a friend of Nelson, Garrick the actor, Dr Johnson and Pitt. Angerstein also had a house in Pall Mall, London. an 1805 underwriter is John Janson. Thomas Taylor was master at Lloyd's from 1774 to 1796, then succeeded by John Bennet who was associated till 1834 when succeeded by his son John Bennet Jnr. In 1800 Zachary Macaulay abandoned Lloyd's to become secretary to the chartered company of Sierra Leone where he became prominent in anti-slavery movement. A Lloyd's character after 1800 was Dicky [Richard?] Thornton who once underwrote 250,000 pounds for Baring Bros on a gold shipment to Russia. By 1803 a name is James Dewar. By 1811 Angerstein wrote to Samuel Champion, secretary to Admiral Saumarez, then commander of the Baltic station. a chairman of the Baltic Committee is Thomas Rowcroft. Captain Frederick Marryat the father of the novelist was an underwriter circa 1811, and MP for Sandwich. after 1800 a name is Robert Pulsford. in 1820, one Andrew Cohen. An 1817 name is Mr Lee La Chamette. an 1822 Baltic name is Charles Wright. in 1817 a name is Thomas Hall, in 1810 the father of the Cardinal Manning is William Manning, MP for the City, a West India Merchant. about 1810 a name is John Throckmorton. Brown p. 90 has a portrait of City Financier Sir Moses Montefiore, one of the Rothschild to set up Alliance insurance; Rothschild was aged 47 in 1824, he had come to London from Frankfurt as a young man; he was said to have been Samuel Gurney was Quaker Thomas Fowell Buxton who had succeeded William Wilberforce asa leader of the anti-slavery movement. Another associate of Rothschild was Frederick Secretan, son of a Swiss who had begun underwriting at Lloyd's in the 1790s, By 1833 both the Red and Green book were near exhausted. the Red Book arose in 1797, in 1834 two major names are David Carruthers and John Robinson. Cuthbert Heath an 1870 Lloyd's name. Sir Leopold Heath was a director of Hand-in-Hand about 1885. Sir John Luscombe is a heavy name by 1906.
Georgiana LATOUR, active by 1820 Father, Joseph Francis L LATOUR, she MARRIAGE to Edward Banker MARJORIBANKS Esq-14230. NOTES FOR GEORGIANA LATOUR, Stenton, Vol. 1, Brit Partls, p. 260, for Sir Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks. // Peter Augustus find LATOUR WA, Birth, 1788, Death, 1864. Father, Louis Francis J LATOUR M, 11311. MARRIAGE to Una Cameron Barclay INNES-11313. // NOTES FOR PETER AUGUSTUS FIND LATOUR WA. He is involved in Van Diemen's Land establishment, later in 1829 in Peel's scheme for colonising Swan River. he is a brother-in-law of Stewart Marjoribanks [see new info re his wife]. Pemberton, London Connection, p. 377. Cf., C. Statham, Peter Augustus Latour: Absentee Investor Extraordinaire, JRAHS, 52, 2, 1987. need to read. // Louis Francis Joseph LATOUR Madras, NOTES FOR LOUIS FRANCIS JOSEPH LATOUR MADRAS. is he a duplicate of the other Latour of Madras? // Miss LATOUR, Father, Joseph Francis L LATOUR O-35385. see Robert Townsend fix FARQUHAR AP-7976. // Joseph Francis Louis LATOUR Of Madras, of Heaton Park, Bedfordshire, NOTES FOR JOSEPH FRANCIS LOUIS LATOUR OF MADRAS, See other entry for Latour, re an article in JRAHS on an investor Latour. Stenton, Vol. 1, Brit Partls, p. 260. DNB for Sir Rbt Townsend Farquar, fix qv. Robert Townsend fix FARQUHAR At Penang. Birth, 14 Oct 1776, Politician, anti-slaver, Dir EICo, Created, Bart, son2, Death, 16 Mar 1830. ring seven. Father, Walter FARQUHAR-37981, Mother, Ann widow STEPHENSON, Miss LATOUR-35381, NOTES FOR ROBERT TOWNSEND FARQUHAR AT PENANG, See [and it is not a very good paper] Anthony Webster, British Expansion in South-East Asia and the role of Robert Farquar, Lieutenant-Governor of Penang, 1804-1805., The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 1993-1994, new book display, this man is no relation to William Farquar, commandant at Malacca about 1803. fix backcheck, pp. VIP. See Clodd on Light, p. 140. See Clodd p. 148. He is an anti-slaver. his own DNB entry, p. 1087 [Sources ]
1847: Captain sailing for Dunbar, James Molison (1816-1869). He commanded EICo ship Collingwood. He has an uncle, Alexander Davidson. By 1847 he is shows in Lows Directory for Sydney as "Dealer" of King Street, East Sydney. He becomes agent for Dunbars in Sydney. He is half-brother of Alexander Strachan, he has a power of attorney and sells ASM/s land at Wollongong to James Waddell Frazer for £100 in 1863. He at some point is resident in Sydney. He is EICo then switches to Dunbar employment. Witnesses at his wedding to Forsyth are his sister Cath and Marg Maria, and Alexr Boyd and George Young Leslie. James normally lives in London. First child born 23 August 1850, soon moved north to Aberdeen before farewells for Sydney emigration. John Black emigrates to Sydney from Aberdour in 1853. By 1855 he is James Molison, Customs House Agent, Church and Molison, Later Molison and (John) Black, Black being late manager of Bank of NSW. Resides at Forrest Cottage, Redfern St., Redfern, later at Adolphus St., Balmain. in 1856 leases 10 acres of Point Piper for 99 years, which lease is later taken up by William Davis. Molison and Black is then at 6 Castlereagh St., two doors up from Circular Quay hotel. By 1866 the business is at 17 Bridge St. Sydney and lives at Point Piper Road, Woollahra. In 1866 he went back to London and ran a business from 14 Cullum St., London as a commission agent.
1849: John Benedict Gore died 1849: He was nephew of Jack "Cherry" Angel in one website. He may be the John Benedict Gore noted by Broeze on Brooks. Note that UBA grew from Herries-Farquhar. See Broeze on Robert Brooks in Appleyard and Schedvin re origins of Dalgetys and Elders. See Dyster on Wm Fanning and Richard Jones, re Edward W. Hamilton in Australia trade. See Butlin on ANZ, p. 56 re estab of UBA. D. E. Fifer p. 94 also names a probable brother, John Gore, citing Rbt and John Gore to Sec of State, 20 Nov 1828, CO 201/199. Broeze on Brooks, p. 42, p. 346 Note 20, this man deals with George Marshall in about six ships. He is maybe member of Conservative Club, London by 1873 if not earlier. On 1875 there was a Gore Lodge with a resident, John Benedict Gore.
1849: Governor Ceylon Henry George ward (1797-1860). Website per Dan Morgan of MIT on Ward line. He was Secretary Admiralty, Governor of Ionian Islands. Knighted in 1849 in Holland House diaries. Assuming he is Henry George Ward as in Burke's Peerage and Baronetage for Wigram. Listed in Adams, Fatal Necessity on New Zealand Co.
1847: NZ entrepreneur. Richard Barrett (1807-1847) Born at Durham or Bermondsey, uncertain? Went to Australia in his teens then went to NZ on trader ships Adventure from Sydney. Or is that arriving in Sydney in 1828, aged 21, In build was "rotund and merry". Met Capt John Agar Love (had died before 1847, RB brought up his part-Maori children), of ships Tohora trading to NZ, muskets for flax, by March 1828, went off sea and became a Wellington pioneer. Or did he move into whaling with three other men from his so-called home town Durham including John Love? Married Maori chieftainess, Rangi/Rawinia (thus a Pakeha-Maori). Got involved in a Maori war, took the Atiawa side. From 1829 he tied up the area's flax trade. In late 1833 or 1834 established whaling station at Queen Charlotte Sound. Met Colonel Wakefield and Edward Jerningham Wazkefield and NZ Co reps wanting land, when they arrived in Tory in 1839. Used to interpret with Maoris/English, badly, he could not convey the meaning of the land deal deed (written in English) to the Maori. Later he worked with NZ Co land surveyor Frederic Alonzo Carrington. Researched up and down NZ west coast. Shore whaling from Marlborough Sounds for 10-12 years. In 1829, R. Campbell and Co. of Sydney had there a brigantine "Hind", to pick up whaling product. In 1830 was a bumper whaling year. In 1832 came six ships to the area of Cloudy Bay. Seems to include Dragon from Hobart, 1600 barrels of oil in hold. Courier with 300 barrels of black oil and 400 of sperm oil. William Stoveld had 300 barrels of black oil and 400 or sperm oil and New Zealander the same. US ships Juno had about 1000 barrels from NZ coast. Nov 1832, Capt W,. Kinnard arrived in Admiral Gifford from Sydney, their party left to work was massacred and eaten. In 1836 Sydney sent two ships to Cloudy bay, and found two British whalers, a French schooner and 13 American whalers sitting about with names such as John Adams, Benjamin Rush, Columbus, Vermont, Franklin, South Boston, Tuscaloosa. In 1837 Sydney had sent whaler Roslyn Castle to whale for 19 months about NZ, for Richards and Co. and got 3000 barrells of black oil, 500 sperm oil and 15 tons whalebone, and in the interim, Richards went into receivership; Richards and Co had ships Proteus, Roslyn Castle and Bee, and two whaling stations on Kapiti Island NZ. Kapiti Island also had some American-run whaling stations, run by Mayhew and Lewis, Barrett built his own house by 1839. Was visited by Rev. Edward J. Wakefield in 1839. The Barrett whaling station had 25 children all part Maori. Helped early migrants to Wellington area. Built what became known as Barrett Hotel. Online item on Barratt by Ronald Jones, journalist for NZ Broadcasting Corporation, Wellington, and see L. E. Ward, Early Wellington, 1928. See A. Mulgan, The City of the Strait: Wellington and its Province. 1939. Angela Caughey, The Interpreter: The Biography of Richard "Dicky" Barrett, Auckland, Bateman, 1998. Ronald William Maclean, Dickey Barrett, Trader, Whaler, Interpreter. Auckland, University of Auckland, 1994. Citations include a variety of genealogical treatments of Barrett eg re name Honeyfield. His own wikipedia page. From 1842 his various incompetence meant he became ostracised, by whites and by Atiawa side, as his initial mis-negoitiations had led to tensions. Per Dennis Ryan of NZ on his family history on 24-12-2010. Dicky had a connection to later premier of NZ William Fox qv. He had drs Kara m to James Charles Honeyfield, Hera, m William Henry Honeyfield.
1847: NZ Shipowner John Martin (1822-1892). He was born at Maghera, County Down, Ireland, son of a Rev taken to farming, his parents die when he is 19 and RN Dr Espie his uncle looks after he and brothers, go to NZ, this John becomes a merchant, woolbuyer and auctioneer. In 1847 he marries Miss Baird of Edinburgh. He is a Presbyt. He runs Cobb and Co. coaches with WB Rhodes for a time. He is in shipping with T. Henderson in Circular Saw Steamers, later bought by Union Steam Ship Co. He in late 1870s bought NZ Steam Navigation Co.
1847: John Kinnersley Hooper (1791-1854). He was London Lord Mayor London of 1847-1848. Wine merchant.
1846: George Lyall (d.1853). His own wikipedia entry. He had two sons and two daughters. Convict contractor, He made a fortune from government contracts during the Napoleonic wars. George Lyall of NZCo, He is a dir then a Gov of EICo, is Gov 1841-1843 and 1844-1846. In the 1820s he is chairman of the Shipowners' Soc. Adams, Fatal Necessity on NZCo, politician and merchant, from 1805 head of a family firm of shippers in East India trade. Members NSW and VDL Land Commercial Assoc (semi-secret as a http has it) AACo and London Emigration Committee. On NZCo from 1835. He is of 17 Regent's Park, London, and Nutwood Lodge, Sussex. a merchant and shipowner, chairman of the EICo at some time, a director of the London Docks, chairman of the Indemnity Assurance Co. ie, George Lyall, as in Byrnes, The BC, p. 97. Stenton, Brit Parlts, Vol. 1, pp. 246-247. Pemberton, London Connection, p. 420. His son was: George II Lyall - He is of 17 Park Crescent, Regent's Park, London, Hedley House at Epsom, Surrey. eldest surv son. a London merchant, many years a MP for London. a director of the Bank of England, a magistrate for Surrey. Commr of Ltncy of London. Stenton, Brit Partsl, Vol. 1, p. 246. His own entry by J. A. Hamilton, in English DNB 2004 edition. He is a member of the Political Economy Club. (Was Ricardo in that?) He is chairman of Shipowner's Society 1823-1825. He has a colleague George Palmer (1772-1853) to try to reform Lloyd's as it was inefficient and corrupt. He and Palmer in 1833 founded General London Ship Owners' Society. Stenton, Brit Partls, Vol. ?, p. 147. Other members of London Dock Co are George Lyall, Mr King Jnr, Rbt Brooks, Stephen Cave, Claud Stephen Hunter, Edward William Hamilton and Beeston Long Jnr.
1846: Sir George Carroll (1784-1860). London Lord Mayor London in 1846-1847. Banker. Once a stockbroker. Govt contractor for state lotteries. Offices in Cornhill, Oxford Street and Charing Cross. In 1836 an original director of London Joint Stock Bank. Long-term director Bank of Australasia and Alliance Assurance Co.
1846: Gov WA John Hutt (1795-1880). He was member Canterbury Association in http - nzbound. His own Austn Encyc entry. He has brother Sir George Hutt. Extra as his brother is married to widow of Bowes-Lyon qv. See Hasluck, Thos Peel, p. 218. He has a brother Sir George, the family is interested in colonizations. He once inherited a house on Isle of Wight. In 1838 both he and brother applied to be Gov of SA but both were beaten by Gov Hindmarsh qv. He also links with his brother Wm to SA. He becomes superintendent for emigration to the South Australian Colonization Commission. His own ADB entry CDROM version. He ceases as Gov of WA on 27 Jan, 1846 to be replaced by Lt-Col. Andrew Clarke. Extra as his brother is married to widow of Bowes-Lyon qv. See Hasluck, Thos Peel, p. 218.
1845: Sir John Bayley Darvall (1809-1883). His own ADB entry online. He is son2. See a J. B. Darvall a local MP in Greaves on Bathurst, p. 33, who m to Daphne Stephens as in Nick Vine Hall's book on Blacketts. Barnard's book on T.S. Mort, p. 227; Holder on Bank of NSW, Vol. 1, p. 150. he is apptd to committee of the post-1850 "new" Bank of NSW. He is solicitor-general to Henry Parkes. Associated with Mort in purchase of shares in Sydney Railway Co. Is a promoter/director of Australian Auction Co. Is quite active in the 1840s. See Semmler's book on Banjo Paterson. He has a lawyer-uncle, Sir John Bayley. He had four sons and three drs. Cited in Barnard, Visions and Profits on TS Mort, 1961. Appendix II, Biographical Notes.
Died 1845: Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton. Website by Chris Knight. Bloomfield table on Wakefield. Burke's LG for Hamond formerly of Westacre. Burke's P&B for Buxton. His grandson of same name in ADB cdrom version. His grandson is governor of SA. See entry in DNB, for 1912-1921. He is of 54 Devonshire St, London. a director of Alliance Assurance Co. Treasurer to Soc for Improvement of Prison Discipline and to Spital-fields Sunday schools. Advocated abolition of slavery. Whig, opposed to Corn Laws. and published An Inquiry into Prison Discipline maybe see Charles Campbell, Intolerable here? Sat for Weymouth. Stenton, Brit Parlts, Vol. 1, p. 60; Stenton not list him as Sir (?). Social reformer, reformed prison discipline, re 1833 Act to abolish slavery in British colonies. Memoirs by his son Charles Buxton. 1872. "Successor to Wilberforce", philanthropy with Clapham Sect. Per Anthony Twist.
1845: William Sprot Boyd (1799-1844). Unmarried. He is known as The Younger as he had an uncle of the same name. He wound up Royal Bank of Australia. He was resident at Baroda in thepeerage.com. He is replaced by a man working in Sydney for the Royal Aust Bank, Samuel Browning. He goes to India when his father or uncle John bankrupts by 1826. His uncle of same name worked for Jardine Matheson at Macau, Canton and Hong Kong, and once he is sent to NSW to discipline Ben Boyd. An electricscotland website says he himself worked for Jardine-Matheson. M. Diamond, p. 15. Re Chisholm matters, he is with a May 1845 (did he die in 1844 then?) meeting with Polwarth in chair, with Scott Donaldson, William Sprott Boyd for Jardine-Matheson, Archibald Boyd an East Indies merchant of Leith, Lennox Boyd of Boyd Bros and Co and various Scottish squatters home from the colonies. Scots had been increasingly active in the NSW and VDL economy since 1835.
1844: David Sassoon (1793-1864) See website http on Macculloch-Hall Family History by Margaret Macculloch and David Hall on rootsweb accessed 30 May 2007. Forbes and Co. of Bombay are mentioned briefly in Cecil Roth, The Sasson Dynasty. London. Robert Hale Ltd., 1941., partly as the Sassoon enterprises in Bombay were in Forbes St. Roth's book gives a useful impression of Bombay business life of the 1840s and later, and notes that Sassoons from their inception in Bombay also dealt in opium to China, till 1913 (they had operations at Hong Kong and Shanghai) when they disapproved of it, informed the government so, and the trade was suppressed.
This man's actual name is David Ben Sassoon Ben Salh Ben Jacob Ben Salah Ben Jacob. His father had left Baghdad, and David went to Bombay aged about 34, in about 1832. (There was with Jewish merchants, a dispersion from Germany to all over the English-speaking world, from Frankfort came the Rothschilds, the Sterns, the Schiffs, Speyers, the Schusters. The Sassoons of Bombay, the Ezekiel, David and Meyer in Calcutta, Meyer of Singapore. There is a noted Bombay merchant John Skinner died 1844 who befriended Sassoon. Forbes and Co would remain in business, as would Ritchie Steuart and Co. Sir Robert Grant who had spoken for Jews in HOC arrived to Bombay as governor in 1835. David's counting house is at 9 Tamarind Lane.He is the son of the Treasurer of the Pasha of Baghdad. He goes into the China trade including opium. Roth p. 47 notes that Govt India suspends trade in opium, in 1913, prompted by a memorial presented by two Sassoon firms of the day. Firm is David Sassoon, Sons and Co. Large in Shanghai, with branches at Canton and Hong Kong, agencies in Yokoaham, Nagasaki. Calcutta, by 1854 the founder is a millionaire. This man deals also with Parsee, son of Sir Jamsetji Jebhai, Rustamji Jejibhai a cotton dealer, and a Hindu, Premchand Roychand, cotton dealer a master of banking and exchange. p. 78-79 re Sir Henry Drummond Woolf (marry Walpoles), result of a laison between an apostate Jewish missionaery and a member of British aristocracy, organizes in 1872 a banking concession granted by Shad of Persia to Baron Reuter, the telegraph newsman.Thus, the Imperial Bank of Persia. The Sassoons had a share here with Glyn-Mills and Henry Shroeder and Co. about 1867, the eldst son Abdulla settles in London, Leadenhall St, while the India Bombay branch is at Forbes Street, Bombay.
1844: Pastoralist Patrick Leslie (1815-1860). He is son2. Burke's LG for Stainton/ Leslie. See him in Mary Durack, Kings in Grass Castles. London. Corgi. 1990., p. 78. His uncle is Walter S. Davidson. De Falbe, table and Ch 8, p. 99. Mowle's Genealogy, p. 109. See Dyster on Fanning and Jones, p. 373, Note 20, where Dyster says W. S. Davidson once wrote a "Narrative of my Business Connexion with my nephew Patrick Leslie, privately printed in London, 1844-1846, see Macarthur Papers, Vol. 62, ML, A2958. The Leslie's side of the story is in K. G. T. Waller, The Letters of the Leslie Brothers in Australia, 1834-1854. 1956; with typescript copies held of that in Oxley Library, Brisbane and ML, Sydney. See on WD [WS?] Davidson in ADB, Vol. 1, and ADB on Patrick Leslie, ADB, Vol. 2, pp. 107-108. Davidson by this time was a partner in the West End Bankers, Herries, Farquar and Co, all qv. Leslie once sold some property to one George Wickham qv, in ADB. When Patrick Leslie married to Macarthur, his best man is Stuart Donaldson. See his own ADB entry. See p. 46 of Jan walker on Jondaryan. See De Falbe, Ch. 9, this man has a cousin by 1870, Catherine Georgiana Davidson married to a Turing cousin, at "Farm Warthill" in Waikato-Auckland NZ. See http://members.cox.net/ghgraham/index_c.html
1842: P&O Chairman William Andreas Salicus Fane de Salis (1812-1896). His own wikipedia entry. He was son3.He has brothers an eldest brother Peter, John and Leopold. great -niece Kathleen and Sibyil Garratt, g/drs of his brother John, a great-niece Barbara Sotheby. a nephew Rudolph and a great-niece Edith Margery. A nephew, Admiral Sir William de Salis, a niece Georgiana Mrs Hamilton, a niece, Mrs Thomas Filgate. His wikipedia entry (William Andreas Salicus Fane De Salis (1812-1896)) indicates that he was a barrister/businesman. A barrister already, he sailed to Australia in 1842, 1844 and 1848, and became, with John Thacker, a partner of Thacker and Co., an affiliated hosue with Jardine-Matheson in Sydney, but he reisgned from this in 1847. By 1848 with Robert Towns qv he owned bargue 345 tons "Statesman". They sold this in March 1854 for 16,500 dollars after she had lately had an accident trading sandalwood and tea pines. He was a director of Union Bank of Australia and in April 1849 he joined Peninsula and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., was its director 1851-1895 and its chairman 1878-1881. He was also a director of Australian Agric Co. and its offshoot, Peel River Land and Mineral Co. Ltd., then chairman of London Chartered Bank of Australia. When back in England he joined Grand Junction Canal Co in 1850. Wikipedia pages various. Broeze on Brooks pp. 270-271. See De Salis name in Burke's LG for Henley formerly of Waterpark. A. Atkinson mentions a Fane early in Sydney colony (?). Broeze on Brooks and see notes to Duncan Dunbar qv. He is with Thomas Dyer Edwards of Hunter and Edwards, qv in London as director of London Chartered Bank of Australia.
1845: Australia trade merchant Joseph Webb. Australia trade merchant Joseph Webb (active 1845). btp. Is he a Tower Hill marine dealer? Is he born 1816? He assisted Caroline Chisholm, see her notes qv. Broeze on Brooks. He is member of first Committee re Family Colonization Loan Society, see Fifty-One Pieces of Wedding Cake, pp. 272-273.
1843: Robert Towns (1794-1873). He married Sophia, half-sister of William Charles Wentworth. On his daughter Sabina see the Salsbury/Sweeney book. Where did William Charles Wentworth get money from? Maxine Darnell thesis, p, 4, note 15, on Eric Roll's errors, in about April 1852 Towns imported Chinese workers using ships Spartan from Amoy under Capt Marshall and a second trip from Amoy in December 1852 on which was a mutiny; with in China, major coolie shipper was James Tait who had an emigrant ship, Emigrant, ends note p. 4. Maxine Darnell's thesis, p. 3, this man also sent Chinese coolies to Peru, and he is one of the major players in contracting Chinese to Aust. He and wife had two sons and three drs - In 1859 he assisted in England E. C. Merewether to negotiate a steam service UK-Aust. By early 1855 he had taken Sir Alexander Stuart qv in ADB as his partner. He is Pres Bank NSW 1853-1855 and 1866-1867. He wanted to import labourers from China, Germany, India; he claimed he had saved Moreton Bay by bringing in Chinese. He had early experience on a collier out of North Shields. He uses kanaka labour (illegal?). Holder on Bank of NSW, Vol. 1, p. 152, sees Towns with others, Donald Larnach, John Thacker, William Ranken Scott and Robert Towns, as being much of the operations of the post-1850 "new" Bank of NSW. See Broeze, British Intercontinental, p. 206, Note 39 re Carter and Bonus to Towns, 13 Sept 1845, ML, Towns Papers, Box 89. He is ring six due to connections with Robert Brooks see notes qv on Brooks. On his use of Kanakas for sugar planting, see Lowndes, ed on CSR p., 15. See p. 48 of Jan Walker on Jondaryan. See Robert Brooks qv of London. See Dakin, WA, pp. 124ff. See Hainsworth, Traders, p. 177. See Broeze, on Brooks, p. 325 Note 76, and see F. Broeze, Australia, Asia and the Pacific: the maritime world of Robert Towns, 1843-1873. See AGE Jones, Ships Employed, p. 275. Notes. Lyons' article in May 1957 Business Archives Bulletin, p. 3. His own ADB entry online.
1835: Wool broker Thomas Southey. He was active by 1830s. This man advises the wool grower John Bristow Hughes of SA on wool development, Hughes fleeces are better than those of the Macarthurs. He writes on sheep breeding and wool and became an authoritry on Austn wools. He is connected with Lord Western, who specialised in selling cross-bred merinos. Noted in Garran and White on Merinos and Macarthurs, p. 197, p. 228, as an English wool broker whose firm by 1844 had taken a great deal of Australian wool. Why is this man not named in other tomes?
1830: Whaling captain John Biscoe (1794-1843). His own ADB entry. See A. G. E. Jones, John Biscoe, 1794-1843, Mariner's Mirror, Vol. 50, 1964., pp. 271ff. this man knew Charles Enderby who promoted his interests. on July 9, 1830, Charles, George and Henry Enderby at Paul's wharf, oil merchants and shipowners, gave Biscoe command of Tula, 150 tons, t explore the Antarctic. Later Biscoe was at Hobart. In 1837 Biscoe sailed for a Liverpool merchant, J. B. Yates on ship Superb, 354 tons, to Hobart with 21 passengers and 33 in steerage. See his ADB entry to hand. See entry on Antarctica in Aust Encyc, this man an Enderby whaler who in ship Tula on Feb 28, 1831, was the first to sight what is now Australian Antarctica as he discovered Cape Ann, Enderby Land.
1834 Banker Samuel Hoare. He is in "Australia trade". he may marry Louisa Gurney dr of John? if so he dies 1847 He is still active to 1845 in Broeze, he is 1834 c/tee for female emigration He may be Sir Samuel, Bart1. See Burke's LG for Gurney of Walsingham. Broeze on Brooks.
1834 Banker Edward Forster. Code-Red. He is 1834 c/tee for female emigration see notes also active to 1845. Broeze on Brooks.
1838: AACo investor William Alers Hankey (1771-1859). He has six sons and three daughters. He is educated at University of Edinburgh and then lives with partner of Hankey and Co, Stephen Hall and his wife Mary at New Grove, Mile End. Code-Aust. He is AACo investor in Pemberton listings. of Bankers, Hankey, Alers and Hankey, Fenchurch St. Burke's LG for Alers Hankey of Stanton Manor. See Vol 1 for Barnard-Hankey formerly of Fetcham Park. He is of Fetcham Park, Burke's LG for Alers Hankey of Stanton Manor. He is probably brought up by his mother's people, possibly Alers, Huguenot weavers of Stepney/Shoreditch area. He is much interested in missionary work, Bible and Tract publications. He is also editor of Eclectic Review. He is co-founder from 1804 of British and Foreign Bible Society. He is once Treasurer of London Missionary Society, 1816-1832, and he mixes with the Clapham sect despite ownership of plantations and slaves, controversy re the 1832 rebellion on Jamaica leading to his reignation. In 1837 he is attacked for his record in book by Joseph Sturge and Mr Harvey, "The West Indies in 1837", re the business's plantation Arcadia. So in 1838 he gave his slaves their freedom. He is also Treasurer of Institution of Civil Engineers. He is said to have ruled his staff and business with a rod of iron, a stern man, given to issue instant dismissal to staff. His daughters called him "Mr Papa". He dies worth less than £250,000.
: Gov NSW Admiral Sir Harry Holdsworth Rawson (1843-1910). He was son2. His grandfather is Thomas Samuel Rawson qv (1793-1860) Code-US. He had two sons and dr Alice. He is 1905-1909 grand master of United Grand Lodge of NSW. He becomes first naval governor since Bligh. His own ADB entry. His nephew's ADB entry as Gov NSW. There is a Rawson Avenue in Tamworth which probably commemorates him.
1839: Australia trade merchant. Jonathan B. Were (1809-1885). Code-Aust. He is son3. He was once a director of the Union Bank of Australia, an agent to Lloyd's Association of London. Late in 1856 the firm of JB Were, Kent and Co was dissolved, then used name JB Were and Co, or, JB Were, till 1861, after which Were put most of his time into stocks and shares. In 1853 Mr Robert Kent merchant of Melbourne was admitted as a partner of JB Were. By 1851 it had a London agent Frederick Huth and Co, London. His first London office was at 3 George's Yard, Lombard Street and later at 39 Lombard Street opened in 1928. Were by 1852 was apptd first agent at Melbourne for P&O. By 1840 he had had idea of sending horses from Melbourne to India, cost £15 here, worth £60 per head in Calcutta. He arrived in 1839 on ship William Metcalfe, Capt Philipson, one of the larger ships then on the Australian run in 1839. He began at a Plymouth house, Collins and Co, merchants and brokers, interested n colonial trade. Family came from lines of Devon and Cornwall. He has financial links with Henry Moor (ADB entry) Mayor of Melbourne and anti-transportationist. He bankrupted twice in Melbourne. was first chairman of Melb stock exchange. Is knighted by kings of Sweden and Denmark [why on earth tho?]. In 1829 he joined firms of colonial merchants, Collins and Co. of Plymouth. see his own ADB entry. Re date 1848 see p. 45 of J. Mayo on "rich in hope", See Broeze on Brooks. wonder if any link to bank in London, Robarts Curtis Were at all? Cf., a company history, A. T. Ellis, (Ed), The House of Were, 1839-1954: The History of J. B. Were and Son, and its founder, Jonathan Binns Were. Melbourne, J. B. Were and Son, 1954.
1834: Sydney retailer David Jones (1793-1873). (His own ADB online entry.) His dr marries T. J. Thompson, stockbroker, p. 5 of Salsbury /Sweeney on Sydney stockbrokers. He arrives in Australia Sydney in 1834 with wife and young family. He first became a grocer, in England/Wales (?). In England he first managed a small general store owned by a Widow Preece. met his first wife who died early. He is first partner with Charles Appleton of VDL. Jones' wife's parents keen on work of LMS, his chief agent in England being William Wemyss. Often they bought the entire available space in emigrant ships coming out. Helping to guarantee backloading of tallow or wool. He was a director of Mutual Fire Insurance Co. formed in 1840, a founding director of Australian Mutual Provident Society of 1848, and MLC of 1856-1860. had four sons and four drs. his youngest son Edward Lloyd married Helen Ann, daughter of Richard Jones qv. See Ted Linn on possibly interesting genealogy of this man who opened a retail store first in Sydney in 1838. Frances Pollon on shopkeepers, pp. 166ff, p. 183, table.
1834: Sydney merchant Joseph Barrow Montefiore. He has partner-nephew Eliezer Levi Montefiore. He has ten drs and three sons. His own ADB online entry. In 1834-35 he is Sydney name for Bank of Australasia which becomes ANZ later see Merrett. He is of a line of Sephardi Jews. He began work with London tea merchants. Early in Australia he had £10,000 to invest in wool and drug cultivation. Where does name Barrow come from? Jews in SA enthusiastic about there include Benjamin Mendes la Costa, with wife, eight children, and a nephew, E. L. Montefiore, and a relative known in art circles, Philip Levi. An Adelaide businessman and pastoral grandee with land from SA into NSW. In 1836 when in London he tells a House of Lords Committee that NZ North Island should be absorbed into the British Empire at a time when Wakefield thinks Jewry could easily go there. He is apptd SA agent in NSW in 1841 due to his brother's interest. He has a business partner in NSW, David Ribiero Furtado, who was a short-stayer in Hobart. JB as two children. He bankrupted in the 1841 NSW depression. He is political candidate in SA in 1851 see Pike, Dissent, p. 428. He arrives in Sydney with two children. He also lived in SA. See his brother Jacob p. 472 of Ian Berryman on Levey and Founding of Swan River. See W. J. Lyons, Prominent Business Figures of Sydney in the 1850s, Part 2 of Notes on the History of the Royal Exchange, pp. 1-11 of Bulletin of the Business Archives Council of Australia, Vol. 1, No. 3, May 1957, He has a partner, in Sydney, Thomas Chaplin Breillat qv. See E. W. Campbell on rich Austn families, p. 78, mentioning a J. B. Montefiore as one of Britain's leading financiers, took a leading part in establishment of Bank of Australasia, which was supported by Baring Bros. See Kynaston, City of London, p. 53. See one Sir Moses Montefiore, married near to Rothschilds, in Corti, p. 130. He began commerce with tea brokers in London. Had a prodigious memory. His brother Jacob is member of the SA Colonization Commission in London. this man helped found the Bank of Australasia. He was a channel for English capital into Aust, re pastoral and speculative boom of 1830s. Early in 1841 the Montefiore firm of London and Sydney went bankrupt. By 1844 assisted by London friends and possibly including the Rothschilds the Montefiores were back in business. Joseph invested in copper mines in SA. Links to an SA savings bank. See re case of wreck of ship Countess of Derby, 329 tons Capt Starcich (sic), in Welsby, Early Moreton Bay, p. 65, wrecked at South Passage, QLD, on 31 Oct, 1853, had some Montefiore wool aboard. At Sydney he has a partner, Breillat, see D. E. Fifer, p. 99. See re wool in D. E. Fifer, pp. 84ff. He may have had assistance from Rothschilds in London. See his own ADB entry. See Broeze on Brooks, p. 53. See p. 74 of A. D. Fraser, on Dangar et al, one Montefiore by 1861 has Montefiore and Te Kloot, brokers of No 1 Gresham St, Sydney, bringing in spirits from Rotterdam for Messrs Campbell and Co. See Sylvia Morrissey in book edited by James Griffin, p. 57, this man one of an "investing oligarchy". In EJ Tapp on early NZ, by 1822 Sydney ship Snapper Capt W. L. Edwardson goes to NZ for dressed flax, help from John Cadell, Capt TR Kent is asked by Govt to help flax trade, see Ruapuke on Stewart Island, by 1827, Sydney men Raine and Murray are interested, (see Tapp p 49), Montefiore by 1827 has help from Barnet Burns. Gov Darling interested, see Busby involvement as resident, first whaling station on South Island is established in 1827 by Sydney whaler John Guard, at Te Awaiti in Tory Channel. by 1830 George Bunn and Co. have a station on South Island at Preserbvation Inlet with Capt Peter William dealing with Maoris, by 1831 the Weller Bros Geo and Edwd of Sydney at Otago, followed by Johnny Jones of Sydney, and when Bunn died Jones took in partner Edwin Palmer, in late 1836 John Hughes of Sydney a helmsman for Weller became more involved, then another Sydney firm, p. 58, Long Wright and Richards, (this Richards probably son of FF contractor, with property at Walcha), but they are insolvent by end of 1830s, Wellers want to bring out Scots workers, involved is Rev W. Purves of East Maitland, NSW, and James Herriott, a promoter p. 73 of NZCo is John George Lambton Lord Durham, WCW reacts to NZ matters by October 1832, protesting at Resident Busby's budget of £500.
1837 active: Frederick Parbury (fix) Find his ADB online entry. There is a Frederick Parbury with daughter Anne Elisa marrying on 27 Aug 1862 to Sir Thomas Smith, Bart 1, a doctor-surgeon (23 Mar 1830-) had issue she died 9 Feb 1879) See DNB for Sir Thomas Smith Bart1, d 1909. See DE Fifer on traders in Sydney in 1827-1830. He teams maybe with John Lamb by 1837. Is this Frederick, linked to John Lamb qv in Sydney who had been linked to Buckle, Buckle, Bagster and Buchanan? See also p. 24 of J. Forbes Munro, "gilt illusion". Broeze on Brooks. Cf Janet P. R. Avent, A History of the Robinson, Spry and Parbury Families (plus Humes, Trants, Trotters, Stewarts and Gilmour), Revesby NSW self published 2010. A firm Lamb Parbury and Lamb once had land on the Darling Downs.
active 1837: Captain George Kettlewell. He was captain of ship Emma Eugenia to Australia, six voyages, some as convict transport. She had Captain G. (Giles?) Wade in 1837 and by F. T. Davies in 1850. A Barque. Built Whitby. Owned by Campbell and Co. of London, London her home port.
1830: Sydney whaler John Jones (1809-1869). Had a fiery temper. By 1825 was sealing in NZ waters. By 1828 a ferryman across Sydney Harbour and married. In 1830 bought shares in three whaling ships, in 1835 a partner with Edwin Palmer, had a major interest in nost NZ whaling stations, including one bought from George Bunn. had about 280 men on seven station, and had outliad about 15,000 pounds. Had coasting vessels about NZ. In 1838 bought land of South Otago, teamed with WC Wentworth and three other entrepreneurs to try to stave off the British Govt acquiring the south island as a possession. First to bring settlers to east coast of south island,. exported rural prodeuce to NSW. Was forced to move to NZ in 1843. whaling declined by 1848. In 1854 -1858 had partnershup with John and Edward the sons of William Cargill in paddle steamer Geelong. In 1862 built a flour mill. In 1863 had shares in Otago Steam Ship Co which failed in 1864 due to poor organisation. Also involved are probably some long-in NZ ex-cons, and FW Unwin, John Westmore, John Cubbin, witnesses Edward Catlin, John Hoyle, James Bruce, James Anderson, Thomas Emery, and attornies relevant are Edwin Palmer and William Sterling., He is involved with WC Wentworth in 1840 in treating with Maoris re South Island in Tapp's Book early NZ. See Sylvia Morrissey, p. 58. See Dakin, WA, p. 54. See Tapp, p. 177, from TL Buick, The Treaty of Waitangi, claims to NZ land from Catlin and Co, Guard and Co, George Green, Green and Co, Jones and Co, Peacock and Co, Weller and Co, Wentworth and Co, Williams.see Baring's Bill of 1838 to establish an NZ colony, which failed, but Glenelg fears French might appoint Baron de Thierry as consul in NZ, and earlier, George Fife Angas has fears for whaling about NZ about 1837 with French and expresses concerns to Glenelg. He had o ne ship Sydney Packet (used 1826-1837), a two masted schooner 84 tons used by Jones as a Bay whaler, wrecked at Moeraki, Otago in 1837. Involved with Wentworth in 1840. By 1840 he claimed 1,980,000 acres in NZ reduced to 20,000 and later to 2560. A farmer, run holder, money lender, shipowner, commission agent, general merchant. Bought much land of North Otago in 1838. Item in Ta Ara Dict of NZ Biog by E. J. Tapp. Was never intereste din politics, possibly due to lack of education.
1833: US Opium trader John Cleve Green (1800-1875). Once supercargo of New-York-based ship Panama. He started with N. L. and G. Griswold of New York City, and after 1823 spent a year in Spain as a supercargo, then to South America and China to 1833, when he was invited into Russell and Co. to replace William Henry Low qv, a man in ill-health. Green was in opium and then in railways. Green returned home in 1839 after only six years in China. He is a partner of Russell and Co. at Canton from 1833. http says he gives a fortune of opium money, $500,000 to Princeton University. Per Linda Minor's website, http://www.newsmakingnews.com/mharvardpart2.htm - He is of a noted Presbyterian family and has forebears Rev Caleb Smith (1723-1762) (grandson, of Newark Mountain) and Rev Jonathan Dickinson (1688-1747). He became a partner in Russell and Co. Cf., Per Ken Cozens, Walter Barrett Clerk, 1863, The Old Merchants of New York City, Second Series. Educational benefactor. Item on an online list of famous American Presbyterians. Supercargo on ships to China and South America. He went to China in 1833 and was there till 1839 when he returned home, a director of Bank of Commerce, Connected with Russell and Co. Named in Anon., author of the article Before Skull and Bones, at http://www.smokershistory/before.html, a 43-page article, from a rabid website railing against the US anti-smoking movement, apparently from Carol A. S. Thompson, Madiscon, Wisconsin, USA.
1830: Sydney whaler John Jones (1809-1869). Had a fiery temper. By 1825 was sealing in NZ waters. By 1828 a ferryman across Sydney Harbour and married. In 1830 bought shares in three whaling ships, in 1835 a partner with Edwin Palmer, had a major interest in nost NZ whaling stations, including one bought from George Bunn. had about 280 men on seven station, and had outliad about 15,000 pounds. Had coasting vessels about NZ. In 1838 bought land of South Otago, teamed with WC Wentworth and three other entrepreneurs to try to stave off the British Govt acquiring the south island as a possession. First to bring settlers to east coast of south island,. exported rural prodeuce to NSW. Was forced to move to NZ in 1843. whaling declined by 1848. In 1854 -1858 had partnershup with John and Edward the sons of William Cargill in paddle steamer Geelong. In 1862 built a flour mill. In 1863 had shares in Otago Steam Ship Co which failed in 1864 due to poor organisation. Also involved are probably some long-in NZ ex-cons, and FW Unwin, John Westmore, John Cubbin, witnesses Edward Catlin, John Hoyle, James Bruce, James Anderson, Thomas Emery, and attornies relevant are Edwin Palmer and William Sterling., He is involved with WC Wentworth in 1840 in treating with Maoris re South Island in Tapp's Book early NZ. See Sylvia Morrissey, p. 58. See Dakin, WA, p. 54. See Tapp, p. 177, from TL Buick, The Treaty of Waitangi, claims to NZ land from Catlin and Co, Guard and Co, George Green, Green and Co, Jones and Co, Peacock and Co, Weller and Co, Wentworth and Co, Williams.see Baring's Bill of 1838 to establish an NZ colony, which failed, but Glenelg fears French might appoint Baron de Thierry as consul in NZ, and earlier, George Fife Angas has fears for whaling about NZ about 1837 with French and expresses concerns to Glenelg. He had o ne ship Sydney Packet (used 1826-1837), a two masted schooner 84 tons used by Jones as a Bay whaler, wrecked at Moeraki, Otago in 1837. Invovled with Wentworth in 1840. By 1840 he claiemd 1,980,000 acres in NZ reduced to 20,000 and later to 2560. A farmer, run holder, money lender, shipowner, commission agent, general merchant. Bought much land of North Otago in 1838. Item in Ta Ara Dict of NZ Biog by E. J. Tapp. Was never intereste din politics, possibly due to lack of education.
1836: Secretary VDL Co Sir Rowland Hill (1795-1879). He is with London and Brighton Railway 1843-1846, Hazelwood School, 1808-1833, SA Assoc 1833-1839 and London and Brighton Railway 1843-1846 and Post Office 1839-1842 and 1846-1864. Hill all told sent 38 ships often small, carrying 5000 emigrants. First chairman of South Australia Commission is Robert Torrens. Among Hill's 1836 chartered vessels was John Pirie, of 160 tons, William Hutt 260 tons, Hey p. 47 has it, "The population of Western Australia soon dwindled from 4000 to a mere 1400, and eventually the ill-fated colony had to resort to convict labour to ensure survival, just as New South Wales and Tasmania had done from the start, with appalling consequences of violence, crime and debauchery." The SA Co by about 1834 in Hey book has 29 members including Rowland Hill, his brother Matthew, Dr Southwood Smith, historian George Grote is chairman. Rowland here has son Pearson (1832-1898) and three daughters. His wife is childhood sweetheart. He begins a school called Hazelwood. He is assoc with SA colonisation/Commission about 1829, and becomes it chief exec officer in 1835. Later he is director and chairman of London and Brighton Railway Company. Colin G. Hey, Rowland Hill, Victorian Genius and Benefactor. London, Quiller Press, 1989. He is not a a link to Benjamin Hill qv of SA Assoc in 1833-1834 see Knaplund on James Stephen p. 79, note 26. In Holland House diaries is Rowland Hill, 1772-1842, Baron1 Hill, later Visc Hill, is it the same man the man born 1772 is a general and a commander in chief? See in Stenton, Sir Rowland Hill Bart MP 1800-1875 and Hon Rowland Clegg Hill (b 1833 died 1895), older son of Visc2 Hill by Anne dr of Joseph Clegg. In Pike, Dissent, p. 527, Note, 8 to Chapter 5 is a director of the VDL Co. He is active by 1831, just after formation of the AACO. An adviser is Robert Gouger. A philosopher (see TM/s views here) of this committee is George Grote, see a street name in inner Adelaide and a London bank, Grote Prescott and Co . The address is 19 Bishopsgate Street. See Sutherland on SA Co, this man is secretary to the Colonisation Commissioners in time of G. F. Angas who helped set up SA, Wakefield etc. He is son3.
1839: Whaler pastoralist Archibald Mosman. (1799-1863). His drs in Burke's P&B for Jardine of Applegirth. He lived in Armidale in John Ferry's book Colonial Armidale. Does he have a daughter marrying into Jardine of Applegirth in Burke's P&B of 1938? He had early experience in West Indies on sugar plantations. See his daughters linked to Qld politics - and sugar (?). see some of his land dealings p. 71 of ad fraser on dangar, gedye and malloch. He has a competitor John Bell whom he buys out. He has a partner John Gilchrist 1803-1866 from Falkirk Scotland. See Prentis, Scots in Aust, p. 114. Partner with Ben Boyd. Cf, E. A. Anchor, Mosman's Bay: Romance of an old whaling station, RAHS, Journal and Proceedings. Vol. 2, Part 10. 1909. not read yet See Dakin, Whalemen Adventurers, p. 53, pp. 95-97. Mosman disposed of his Mosman Bay establishment in 1839, to become a squatter in the New England district. (His own ADB entry. see also E. C. Sommerlad, Land of the Beardies. Glen Innes. 1922.)
1835: Re early planning for South Australia. Pike in Dissent, pp. 84ff, has list of members of National Colonisation Society of 1835 as: (interested are William Alexander Mackinnon, wealthy Tory MP, who has a son in far eastern shipping before founding Imperial British East Africa Co., Capt Wm Gowan with 15 years India service, Richard Norman son of a man in Norway timber and brother of a director of Bank of England, Samuel Mills a retired financier, Richard Heathfield later in railways, George Fife Angas, (qv a Baptist merchant and shipowner). E. Barnard (liberal, and an investor in AACo ), J. E. Bicheno, (son of a Dissenting minister and later colonial secretary in VDL) (sic), C. Holte, (eccentric banker Henry Drummond is involved) Bracebridge, Clayton Brown, John William Buckle (qv and an exception amongst mostly philanthropists, uncle of the historian Buckle, AACo investor and SA promoter), Charles Buller, Sir Francis Burdett (a dilettante radical), Rev F. A. Cox, Howard Elphinstone, John Gibson, John Gore, Hon Sec Robert Gouger, Arthur Gregory, Woronzow Grieg, Richard Heathfield, Sir John Hobhouse (dilettante radical), R. W. Horton, Erksine Humprheys, John Hutt, William Hutt, R. H. Innes, Edward King, T. Kavanagh, John Labouchere, Thomas Potter Macqueen (AACo investor and SA promoter), Lawrence Marshall, Charles Merivale, John Stuart Mill, Lucius O'Brien, William Smith O'Brien, Sir Henry Parnell, R. S. Rintoul, Rev G. V. Sampson, Robert Scott, John Abel Smith, James Spedding, John Sterling, Rev Dr Styles, Sir Philip Sydney, Colonel Talbot, Charles Tennant, Charles Tennyson, J. H. Thomas, Colonel Torrens (on life of Torrens see Pike, Dissent, pp. 92ff, FRS, he is capitalist with England as workshop of the world, see his son in SA), E. S. Tucker, R. Trench, Hyde Villiers, John Young. A non-MP member is Edward King (later Visc Kingsborough and an antiquarian who recommended Mexico be colonised by Israelites), T. Kavanagh (an Irishman who with Wm Smith O'Brien spent years exploring Egypt), R. S. Rintoul (editor of The Spectator). Members not on the committee included John Simeon Hare (classics scholar), James Spedding, Charles Merivale, Visc Howick, Charles Tennyson, William Hutt (fresh from Cambridge and later MP, friends of colliery owners by wife's connections and has his own shipping interests) and John Hutt, Charles Buller, John Sterling (he is for the Spanish patriots then in London), Charles Tennant, Stephen Spring Rice, W. S. O'Brien, John Romilly, Sir William Molesworth and Edward Strutt. Other SA promoters who were shareholders in AACo were J. W. Buckle, Thomas Potter Macqueen, G. W. Norman (AACo investor and SA promoter), Hyde Villiers, John Smith (banker AACo investor and SA promoter) and John Melville (retired India merchant). Pike, Dissent, p. 87 has 1832 list of members of South Australian Association, as: Major Aubrey Beauclerk (Benthamite), Rev Abraham Borradaile (reformer Anglican clergyman, assists poor, finally suicides in Thames with brothers as merchants at Cape Good Hope and London, members the wealthy Borradaile clan), Charles Buller (born in India in 1806, Benthamite), J. L. Childers (liberal whig, reforming land owner and financier), William Clay (wealthy Port of London merchant), Raikes Currie (radical, banker, gambler), Capt William Gowan, George Grote, Benjamin Hawes (soap manufacturer), Dr. J. H. Hawkins (Benthamite), Rowland Hill (Benthamite), Matthew Hill (Benthamite), William Hutt, John Melville, Samuel Mills, Sir William Molesworth (Benthamite), Jacob Montefiore (banker link to Rothschilds), George Ward Norman, Richard Norman, Joseph Parkes, Thomas Pottinger (former India business in India), J. A. Roebuck, G. Poulett Scrope (poor law reform, head of a firm of Russia merchants), Nassau William Senior (re poor law reform), Dr. Southwood Smith (Benthamite), Edward Strutt (Benthamite), Henry Warburton (Benthamite), William Woolryche Whitmore (son of London banker and director EICo), John Wilks, Henry George Ward (Benthamite), Daniel Wakefield, Joseph Wilson, John Ashton Yates. Also interested is Joseph Wilson a wealthy family connection of Gouger. George Grote is a Benthamite. Pike, Dissent, p. 97 has interested parties as George Palmer (Whig, anti-Capt Swing moves, and of Palmer, McKillop and Co), John Wright a banker of Henrietta Street, London. See Pike, Dissent, p. 97 for 1835 Colonization Committee, with extra names such as WA McKinnon, Edward Barnard and John Shaw Lefevre of Colonial Office, group has chambers at Adelphi Terrace, see later career of Capt. John Hindmarsh.) Alan Atkinson on 26-6-1998 emails he feels WA gets its original push from landowning Tories centered about Duke of York and Duke of Beaufort, evidence being place names Stirling planted around Perth - test this theory. Cf., cited in Cameron. Fire, D. M. Young, The Colonial Office in the Early Nineteenth Century. London, Longmans, 1961. Cameron, fire, p. 86, re shipping agent Solomon and loss of "Sir Francis Freeling's [shipowner] Marquis of Anglesea [Capt Steward wrecks on Cockburn Sound]", Cameron, fire, p. 44, Stirling has a partner, Matthey, thinking of an investment of £30,000 in WA by 1825 or so. Cameron, Ambition's fire, p. 38, says that a friend of James Mangles, is Major Thomas Moody, former Colonial Office staffer, expert on West Indies and the slave trade, advises how to settle Swan River at no expense to govt. His uncle is retired early from Navy on corruption charges. Cameron, Ambition's Fire, p. 7, the family firms bust in troubles of 1825. Windham Club is where Peel meets Solomon Levey p. 33 in Hasluck, Thomas Peel, p. 3. The ship Lady Nugent was named for wife of founder of The Windham Club. In Hasluck, Thos Peel, pp. 21ff, re WA, T. P. MacQueen (who soon loses interest), Sir Francis Vincent and Edward Schenley of the Windham Club of London have idea to settle WA, free land. In Hasluck, Thos Peel, pp. 19ff.
1838: AACo investor William Alers Hankey (1771-1859). He had six sons and three daughters. He was educated at University of Edinburgh and then lived with a partner of Hankey and Co., Stephen Hall and his wife Mary at New Grove, Mile End. He is AACo investor in Pemberton listings. of Bankers, Hankey, Alers and Hankey, Fenchurch St. (Burke's Landed Gentry for Alers Hankey of Stanton Manor. See Vol 1 for Barnard-Hankey formerly of Fetcham Park. He is of Fetcham Park, Burke's LG for Alers Hankey of Stanton Manor.) He is probably brought up by his mother's people, possibly Alers, Huguenot weavers of Stepney/Shoreditch area. He is much interested in missionary work, Bible and Tract publications. He is also editor of Eclectic Review. He is co-founder from 1804 of British and Foreign Bible Society. He is once Treasurer of London Missionary Society, 1816-1832, and he mixes with the Clapham sect despite ownership of plantations and slaves, controversy re the 1832 rebellion on Jamaica leading to his reignation. In 1837 he is attacked for his record in book by Joseph Sturge and Mr Harvey, "The West Indies in 1837", re the business's plantation Arcadia. So in 1838 he gave his slaves their freedom. He is also Treasurer of Institution of Civil Engineers. He is said to have ruled his staff and business with a rod of iron, a stern man, given to issue instant dismissal to staff. His daughters called him "Mr Papa". He died worth less than £250,000.
1830: date of his marriage to fix blut?? Ross Donnelly Mangles (1801-1877). He is of Marylebone. Is it even possible that Mangles here and NZ Co had inside knowledge of the system behind convict transportation, since he had married Harriet Newcombe, dr of George Newcombe of the audit office in Whitehall, which after 1829 had audited Shelton's Contracts (?). His dr Katherine only from http on Elliot clan. John Mangles Lowis, Esquire, of Plean, is a son of John Lowis, Esquire, who had been a member of the Supreme Court of India, and died in 1870. His mother was Louisa, daughter of John Fendall, Esquire. Born in 1827, he married in 1854, Ellen, daughter of Ross Donnelly Mangles, Esquire, of Stoke, Surrey; and has, with other issue, John, born in 1855. Mr. Lowis, who was educated at Hayleybury, is in the Bengal Civil Service. Ross is friends with Sir Charles Metcalfe, govt of Canada matter and later corresponded much with E. G. Wakefield. See Bloomfield on Wakefield, p. 263, Is in IGI Internet, christened on 13 Oct 1801 at Hackney, St John, London. Burke's LG for Norman of Bromley Common. See an article on this man in supplement (?) to DNB. Stenton on Brit Parlts, p. 259. This man is of 9 Henrietta St., Cavendish Sq., London, and of Woodbridge, Surrey. Also, Athenaeum. He is in Bengal Civil Service, a director of EICo, then a director of the New Zealand Co. A dep-lt of London. A liberal. By 1853 he is an anti-Papist, "determined to resist all aggression upon our national rights by pope or cardinal". First elected for Guildford in 1841. Sat till appointed Member for Council of India in Sept 1858 to 1866. Broeze on Brooks. IGI data available. See note re Mrs Henry Davenport Shakespear qv who is a friend of one unspecified Mr Ross Mangles. Letter to DB of March 1996 from Ian Berryman in WA. Burke's LG for Norman of Bromley Common. In 1841 or so he personally visits Wellington NZ on business. See http on Elliott Clan. From a 14-page PDF with 174 footnotes for IGI/LDS lodgement, dated 27 August 2006, by Marcus Bateman, UK, sighted from 2-6-2007.
1834: London Lord Mayor John Pirie (1781-1851). Shipping contractor. Dept-Chair P&O. Director SA Co and Dir NZCo. Broeze, Brooks, p. 324 note 17 to chapter 9 that Pirie in Sep 1843 mortgaged the whole of his shipping operation to Joseph Somes, citing BT 107, London, 1832-1843, passim. Who is Lord Pirrie 1847-1924 who leads Harland and Woolf of Belfast, builders of the Titanic. He is on 1834 London c/tee for female emigration. Adams in Fatal Necessity, on NZCo. Pirie is shipowner, since 1834 London alderman of Cornhill, London Lord Mayor London in 1841, since 1832 he was interested in assisted emigration and colonisation, a member of the London Emigration Committee that employed John Marshall to conduct their single female emigration till 1836, and in Aug 1841 Pirie became chairman of those trustees when Marshall bankrupted. Pirie is director of SA Co and NZCo. He sent a coaster vessel to SA which gave name to Port Pirie. He linked with John Abel Smith qv of Magniac Smith and Co. Pirie an example of the penniless Scot who made good. See Broeze article, Imperial Axis, notes taken. V. Hope, lists. Broeze on Brooks, p. 323, Note 11, this man an official with John Abel Smith qv and Thomas Icely qv of the Australian Trust Company. Notes follow from Michael Rhodes of December 2002 - SIR JOHN PIRIE, born September 18, 1781, at Berwick on Tweed. At age 26, a ship broker and ship owner in London. Mayor of London at age 60 (in 1841). Died Champion Hill, Camberwell. February 26, 1851. Left no issue, and the baronetcy became extinct on his death. John Pirie (1781-1851), shipping operator, has been greatly underestimated as a London Lord Mayor supporting colonial endeavours. He was a director of the SA Co., and of the NZ Co., CPEFAC. The SA Colonial land and Emigration Commission of 1840 had signatories including George Fife Angas ([120]), Brooks, Gore, Brownrigg, Cummins, Mangles, Price and Co., Ellice Kinnear and Co., Pirie, Somes, Walker, Willis, James Bogle Smith, Magniac Smiths and Co., Rickards Little and Co., and AA Gower Nephews and Co. In 1832 Pirie proposed for an organisation promoting female emigration. In 1834 he was a London alderman for City Ward of Cornhill and in 1841-1842 was Lord Mayor. ([121]) His name surfaces also too little in discussions of business enterprise. Canton 506 Pirie & Co Pirie & Co A 1 5 4 - " July 29 1839 240 - - " Sept 22 1840 Jan 12 - " - Augusta Jessie 380 Pirie & Co Pirie & Co A 1 5 10 - " Sept 7 155 - - " Nov 11 " Feb 25 - " - Gilbert Henderson 428 Henderson Pirie & Co A 1 4 5 - " Oct 3 - 184 19 " Dec 12 " Apr 24 14 1 - Public Tender John Brewer 457 ditto Pirie & Co - 3 18 5 " Sept 30 200 - - " Dec 5 " Apr 6 - Emily 461 ditto Pirie & Co A 5 8 - " Apr 14 240 - - 1842 June 29 " Nov 21 Kinnear 368 Ellice Kinnear Pirie & Co A 1 4 15 - " Apr 30 174 - - " July 10 1842 Oct 23 Marion 684 W.L. Pope Pirie & Co A 1 3 16 - " Oct 4 300 - - " Nov 29 " Apr 4 Sea Queen 404 W.L. Pope Sir J. Pirie & Co A 1 3 8 - " Mar 26 - 170 - " May 11 - " - Java 1,175 J. Pirie Pirie & Co Æ 1 - 17 11 and 20s., as above 26 Oct 1841 conveying troops and stores to Gibraltar, Barbadoes and New Brunswick; in 1842, troops in Bermuda and Halifax; troops to the Cape of Good Hope; in 1843, troops to Quebec and the West Indies; in 1844, conveying stores to China, where she was discharged on 15 Jan 1845 " " Angelina 366 ditto Sir J. Pirie & Co A 1 - 20 - 22 May 1843 conveying troops to and from Quebec 3 Jan 1844 public tender Dear Mr Rhodes In reply to your enquiry of 3 February 2000, which was forwarded to us by the Public Record Office, we have a brief biographical profile of Sir John Pirie, Lord Mayor 1841-2. If you send me details of your postal address, I will be happy to send you a copy of the profile. I will also send a copy of our explanatory leaflet about sources for researching lord mayors of London, which may be of interest to you. I hope this information is useful. Amelia Thompson barque, 477 tons Sailed from Plymouth, 25th March 1841, arrived 3rd Sept, 1841 under the command of William Dawson. James Evans was Surgeon Superintendent. Wm. Thompson was the owner and Osberth Forsyth, the broker. Height between decks 6 and a half feet. John Watson first Mate, Murray second mate. William Black in charge of stores. This was the second of the 6 ships chartered by the Plymouth Company for the transport of goods and colonists to the newly founded settlement of New Plymouth, New Zealand. She was not engaged in the Australian trade route. The Amelia Thompson crossed the equator on 23 April 1841 but the prevailing south winds carried them far to the west and no progress was being made so the decision was made to break the monotony of the voyage and make for Bahia (Salvador), Brazil. After 4 days of replenishing the ship they sailed east around the Cape of Good Hope and passing through Bass Straight, Australia July 15 finally reached the New Zealand coast 28 July. Five days were spent between being becalmed and stormy weather which would not allow them into either Port Underwood (south) or Port Nicholson (north). Eventually they reached Wellington where they spent two weeks. On 13 August they sailed for New Plymouth but experienced similar conditions, having to shelter in tempestuous weather or were becalmed, reaching their destination 3 Sept. It took 13 days to unload passengers and goods as the ship lay many miles off shore as because of danger from currents, surf and reefs. Some of the longboats arrived in darkness and some were overturned but no lives were lost. It is reported there were 7 births and 7 deaths on the voyage. From there the ship returned to London via Batavia and Madras. [Posted to The Ships List by Lorrie Carter - 10 October 1997] The Amelia Thompson was a sailing bark, built in Sunderland in 1833. Lloyd's Register of Shipping for 1834-1843 gives the following details for her: Master: 1834-1835 - W. Pigot 1836-1838 - Tomlinson 1839-1843 - Dawson Owner: 1834-1835 - not given 1836-1843 - John Pirie (from 1842, Sir John Pirie, bt.) (1781-1851), merchant ship broker and ship owner of London, sheriff of London and Middlesex 1831; Alderman of Cornhill ward 1834-1851; Lord Mayor of London 1841; created baronet 13 April 1842, in consequence of the birth of the Prince of Wales during his mayoralty. Port of Registry: London Port of Survey: 1834-1835 - not given 1836-1840 - London 1840-1843 - Clydeside Destined Voyage:1834-1835 - not given 1836-1838 - Launceston 1839-1840 - Sydney 1840-1843 - New Zealand On the morning of 23 May 1843, about 80 miles east by south of Madras, the Amelia Thompson, was suddenly overtaken by a heavy squall, which completely threw her on her beam ends, and she sank. Seven seamen were drowned; Captain Dawson and the remaining crew members (the bark appears to have been on a return voyage from Australia, as there is no reference to passengers) were rescued after 2 days [full account in the London Times , 14 September 1843, p. 7e]. For possible additional information on the wreck of the Amelia Thompson, see the casualties in Lloyd's List, indexed since 1838, on microfilm, in the Lloyd's Marine Collection at the Guildhall Library. [Posted to The Ships List by 23 Oct 1997 Michael Palmer ] Rutherford and Skinner write on page 137 in The Establishment of the New Plymouth Settlement in New Zealand. "In Seffern's 'Chronicles of Taranaki,' Major C. Brown whilst on board the Cornwall (1849) returning to New Plymouth learnt from Captain Dawson the history of the Amelia Thompson. "After leaving New Zealand in 1841, she went too to the Eastern Seas, and was employed in the China war, before going off to Madras... The vessel, it appears was lost off Madras, where she was 'taken aback', and went down stern first, Captain Dawson and the crew saving themselves in quarter boats."
1831: James Bridley Bettington (1796-1857). Code-Aust. Code-red. He is from a London firm of general merchants and wool importers and he came out to NSW to become a wool buyer and landowner. He arrived in Port Jackson on 19 Dec 1827 on ship Ionia, became a representative for shipping agents, of London, Bettington and Sons, his father and/or brother was John Henshall Bettington? in 1828 he is elected to director Bank NSW. in 1831 apptd magistrate, in 1851-53 he represented pastoral districts of Wellington and Bligh, Leg Council NSW. In 1834-1839 he acquired some purchase grants for pastoral properties, some in Co Brisbane, name Brindley Park arises, a small area near Merriwa, later quite enlarged. About 1840 he bought "Oatlands House" near Parramatta. He is maybe an employer of Patrick Doran near Moree by ?? See Holder, Bank of NSW, Vol. 1, p. 74, pp. 133ff. Per Trin Truscett of Armidale. D. E. Fifer, pp. 94ff. See Mowle's genealogy, pp. 16ff.
1835: Henry Wright. He was a director Jardine-Matheson for 1835-1841 in Keswick.
1824: Thomas Iceley Jnr (). He was son1. Thomas Iceley also had a land grant in Cowra, says Jane Beck. Pemberton on AACo investors lists him with Matthew Hindson. Ring one per notes re Buckles in year chron file for 1828. He had bought sheep from Macarthurs. He mined copper and tried to mine gold found on his property. He became famous as an importer of cattle, sheep and horses. He provided cavalry remounts for India. Was a large-scale squatter. In 1824 he partnered with Matthew Hindson (name otherwise unknown) as agents and merchants. Tried to set up a timber trade with England from 1824 but withdrew. He is shareholder in Bank of Australia. A member of committee of inquiry into Savings bank of 1843, later a trustee of it. His own entry in ADB. See Greaves, on Bathurst, p. 27. Pemberton, AACo, p. 349. He has a son. See Pemberton, London Conn p. 349. Interested in Racehorses. Cf, Keith Robert Binney, Horsemen of the First Frontier, 1788-1900 and the Serpent's Legacy as a Google Books Result. This Thomas Jnr worked for Buckle, Buckle Bagster and Buchanan as in Keith Robert Binney, Horsemen of the First Frontier, 1788-1900 and the Serpent's Legacy as a Google Books Result, pp.187ff.
1822: Captain Sir John Woolmore (1755-1837). He sails at age 12 on EICO ship Granby owned by Sir Charles Raymond for whom John often works in future. In vault his wife1 is in, are remains of his mother Ann Lucas, who died 1802 aged 80, the sister of his first wife, Mary Eastfield, who died 23 Jan 1838, aged 82. Wm John Eastfield, who died 18 Jan 1841 aged 63. He is described as "an intimate friend and companion" of king William IV. He is knt bachelor in 1834 at Windsor Castle. He has addresses at 12 Bishopsgate St by 1802, in 1806-181 he is at Queen Square, Bloomsbury, and 1830-1839 at 15 Bruton St, Berkeley Sq off Picadilly. In 1811 he is apptd director of Royal Exchange Assurance Co. He lives at Hampton. He signs leases for new EICo docks with Joseph Cotton of Leyton/Leytonstone, Sir Wm Curtis of Southgate, Abel Chapman, St Thomas St., Southwark, and William Wells of Redleaf, Kent. He and Robert Wigram become driving forces behind the formation of East India Dock Co., Woomore from 1822-1824, then 1827-1832, he is chairman in 1827, 1830-1831 and 1834-1835. He is elected in 1803 as Elder Brother of Trinity House. He, Huddart and brother-in-law Charles Hampden-Turner from date unknown start a new-style rope factory. He is friends with Capt John Huddart qv, and co-owns the ship Huddart built at Blackwall in 1803 by Green and Wigram at Blackwall for £19 per ton. From 1782 he has a country ship in the east, till 1787. He has brother Thomas born 1757. From Tony Fuller at http://www.mariners-1.freeserve.co.uk/EICWoolmore.htm
1822: He is of Ottershaw Park Chertsey Surrey. Edmund Boehm (c.1741-1822). [At Ottershaw Park 1796-1819]. Edmund Boehm, a wealthy West Indian merchant, married Dorothy Berney in 1781. An extravagant life style and depression of trade during and after the Napoleonic Wars caused their bankruptcy in 1819 and they retired to a cottage in Sidmouth. Edmund died in 1822 in West Cowes aged 82 and there is a memorial to him in Chobham church. From 4th August 1827 Dorothy occupied a "Grace and Favour" apartment, no. 36 (now the shop in Base Court), at Hampton Court Palace. In the 1841 census she was recorded as living on "independent means" with three servants. She died later that year. See 1780 Royal Calendar. email of 10-10-2003 - Dear Dan, What a pleasant surprise to find your email awaiting my 'log-on' - like many of my generation, I still get a thrill when a response arrives from someone whom I might never normally have expected to meet in hundreds of lifetimes. What an invention is this Internet! My enquiry about Edmund Boehm is based on a trio of coincidences and only obliquely concerns the Australian connection. My background is in Fraud investigation and as such, I feel able to put on a kind of contemporary spin on some trends from 200 years ago. Everyone wants a sure-fire, get-rich-quick scheme and quite independently, all over the country, hitherto conventionally employed people suddenly get the urge to make their fortune with a 'unique' idea. The dot.com boom has been the biggest of late but in my own field, the public frenzy into buying Homes-to-Let (aided by generous mortgage lenders) is a disaster waiting to happen. A number of unscrupulous individuals (US and Australians amongst them) have been touring the UK with seminar road-shows at prestigious locations offering the tricks of the trade ... .at a price. But enough of that. The difference from a couple of centuries ago is that with current levels of literacy, TV communication etc, millions can be involved instead of the relative handful of merchants and entrepreneurs of that time. I am a member of The East India Club which was founded over 150 years ago for employees of the East India Company. (The Oriental Club has similar origins.) The building that has been our home (16 St James's Square) have been occupied continuously since the club's formation but prior to that, had been the London home of Edmund Boehm and his socially ambitious wife. Mr Boehm's occupation is generally referred to as The West India Trade and he is described as being "of Russian extraction." Your history suggests that Mr Boehm may have been a business associate (a director?) of 'John Company' but it can be no more than a coincidence that his home became the club's base. Can it? The second strand in this tangled skein concerns an area very close to where I live - in Chobham, in the English county of Surrey. Mr Boehm had an estate there which he lost (together with 16, St. James's Square)upon his bankruptcy. This Boehm nexus (London-Surrey, approx 25 miles) does not seem to be terribly well-known. The curator of the local museum has been kind enough to include my little footnote on the website www.chobham.info/stanners.htm
Apologies if this has read like a shaggy-dog story but it will explain the link between Boehm and the Waterloo Despatch. Thanks to the internet, I see that in 1817, Edmund Boehm (it must be the same man)had a sea-side villa built at Sidmouth, Devon. In my experience, property speculation is like a drug and it may be that Boehm's overweening appetite for property led to his demise - he would not have been the first, nor the last - but now that I have begun to understand the Australian connections, it would seem logical that, post-1807, Boehm shifted his attention to that business area. This is an aspect which I'm certain you will have covered in your admirable research but it occurred to me that in the library of the EastIndia Club, there may repose some old book containing more information. As yet, I don't know if the club is entirely aware of the extent of this association but will happily make more enquiries on your behalf if you are able to identify target dates and names. The club's own web-site is www.eastindiaclub.com which you may find of interest - especially the library and the Ladies' Drawing Room - scene of Mrs Boehm's party. Finally, I hope it is unnecessary for me to add that I have no commercial interest whatsoever in this research and that any material obtained will be relayed to you entirely free of charge. With best wishes to you in your work. John Beddall
1822: AACo investor Banker Charles Cockerell (1755-1837). See re Sir William Paxton qv. Sir Charles Cockerell Bart1. Contractor re monies to Wellesley the later Duke of Wellington. Code-India. Code-red. thepeerage.com. His family is added-to by http on Pepys family. See Hodson lists. He is of firm Paxton, Cockerell and [Henry] Traill and also John Palmer. EI merchants of Austin Friars, he is at 147 Picadilly, Mayfair. Code-A. GEC, Peerage, Coventry, p. 475. He went to India in 1776, then aged only eleven. Stenton has him as an MP, a director of Globe Insurance Co. An honorary member of the Board of Control for India (does he know J. P. Larkins of Board in Calcutta circa 1823 friend of Normans?). Once had a partner Philip De Lisle, and in 1790 was with Henry Trail and John Palmer. He is of Cockerell and Paxton (William Paxton 1744-1824) in the East. Stenton, Vol. ?, p. 83. This man is active in 1822. See J. M. R. Cameron on Melville Island, p. 89. Stenton, Brit Parlts, Vol. 1, pp. 51. He is Cockerell, [Paxton?] Traill and Co in India, plus J. S, Brownrigg qv. Pemberton, AACo, p. 67 and shareholder lists. P. J. Marshall and Willem G. J. Kuiters, ‘Cockerell, Sir Charles, first baronet (1755–1837)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47774, accessed 5 March 2006 ] - Sir Charles Cockerell (1755–1837) : doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/47774 - thepeerage.com.
1820s: Capt John Coghill. He has a young nephew Donald Coghill whom he brings to NSW and exploits. He has four daughters, so who did they marry? He is related by his mother to Alexander Macleay qv of NSW. She is related to family of Alexr Macleay, see Eliz Windschuttle, The Women of the Macleay Family, 1790-1850. Sydney, 1988. Is this book titled also - "Women and Science"? He makes voyages to NSW (four on her) in Mangles, 1820, 1822, 1824,1826. He had earlier briefly been in the country trade in India, for Browns. Argued with them, his first voyage to NSW is in 1820 for Buckles, Bagster and Buchanan, with whom he also had disputes. He is elected MLC for NSW, is director and shareholder of Bank of Austrlaia, suffering by collapse in 1843. He in 1838 he helped finance one of the first overland expeditions to Port Phillip in p/ship with John Hepburn of Smeaton Hills near Creswick in Victoria, See Christine Wright, '"Rogues and Fools": John Coghill and the convict system in New South Wales', Journal of Australian Colonial History, Vol. 3, No. 2, October 2001., pp. 38-60. Maybe see Bateson re a con ship captain? See Pemberton, London Connection, p. 67. Message Follows from gwilson@acenet.com.au -- Dear Dan, I am researching my husband's ancestor, Captain John Coghill, and was interested to see on your website under "Australian, Ships and Convicts, Part Three" that you said under the section "1820s: Capt John Coghill" that he was related to Alexander Macleay on his mother's side. I am curious to find out more about this on two counts. Firstly, I have reached a brick wall in researching Coghill although I know his father was David Coghill and his mother was Elizabeth Gunn and, secondly, because our family property, "Brownlow Hill", was purchased by my husband's great-great-grandfather from the Macleays so I am interested to see if there really is a family connection. I contacted Elizabeth Windschuttle who wrote the book you quoted but she knows nothing about such a connection. The only connection I have been able to find so far is that both families came from Wick in Caithness. I would really appreciate a response from you. Thank you Regards Gay Wilson
c.1828: Captain Thomas Raine (1793-1860). Contractor He had two children by one Jane Wright at Parramatta in 182 and 1825. In 1831 he settled near Bathurst. He and ships surgeon David Ramsay founded general merchants, Raine and Ramsay. He is director of Sydney and Van Diemen's Land Packet Co. He is yst son. His own ADB entry online. Goddard on Milson, pp. 110ff cites from Raine's diary of 1851 re mania of gold mines, In 1814, see Goddard on Milson, p. 45, Thos Raine made his home with James Milson. See Goddard on Milson, p. 185, Note, 8 where in the 1820s, Raine owed Bank of NSW some 107,243 Spanish dollars, quite a sum, the next largest debt to bank is Robert Campbell Merchant owing 87,157 Spanish dollars. Details in Greaves on Bathurst, pp. 28ff. Kerr on whalers, pp.36ff. See R. H. Goddard, Capt Thomas Raine of the "Surry", 1795-1860, Jnl of the Royal Aust Hist Soc., Vol. 26, Part 4, 1940., pp. 277-317. See Broeze on Brooks, p. 30 re firm Raine and Ramsay. Roy H. Goddard has a title on Raine; And variously esp on Raine in NZ. Cf, E. J. Brady, Whaling at Twofold Bay. Australia Today. 1910., cited in Dakin and See Dakin, WA, pp. 47ff, p. 88. Margaret De Silas, Captain Thomas Raine: An Early Colonist. Self published, 1969. Per Dennis Ryan of NZ on his family history on 24-12-2010.
1825: Cf, W. E. Cheong, China Houses and the Bank of England Crisis of 1825. Business History, Vol. 15, Issue 1, 1973.
1825++: Charles Parbury (1831-1915) son of Frederick. His Obit in Obituaries Australia. Is he with Lamb, Parbury and Co? In Pemberton's lists of AACO investors is a Charles Parbury London booksller at Leadenhall St. Mowle's Genealogy, p. 155. He is vice-commodore Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron. Of the old school of Sydney merchants, born Sydney, father Frederick had arrived in the 1820s, had Parbury´s wharf and bond, with Walter Lamb of Parbury Lame and Co, later Parbury, Henty and Co. Charles became member of firm in 1854, went to London in 1880, a director of Union Bank of Australia, at one time a director of Colonial Sugar Refining. Had five sons and four drs. Also had wharf in Brisbane.
1821: AACo investor George Wade Norman (1793-1882). Email of 14-8-2009 from Julie Johnson. He is son1. His marriage in Clay p. 6 "brings his children into one of the oldest of English banker families and two of them in partnership in oldest of the Clearing Banks". He is friend and neighbour (at Bromley) of bankers as Hankey, Grote, Jones Loyd (sic), Hay Cameron, Lubbock, Stone, Martin, and later Mark Collett, and one of his own brothers is a partner first in Bouverie's and then in Jones, Loyd and Co. He is an original member of the Political Economy Club, agreed with some of Ricardo's views. He is neighbour of Charles Darwin. He is neighbour and intimate friend of George Grote as in Pike, Dissent, see Clay book p. 4. He is elected to Dir BofE in 1821. He went early to Norway and made friends here. School at Eton. Cf., Sir Henry Clay, Lord Norman, London, Macmillan, 1957., from p. 3 Burke's LG for Lubbock formerly Bonham Carter of Adhurst St Mary. Lecouteur 1825 AACo listings. See, Autobiography of George Wade Norman, completed September 3, 1857, Kent County Archives Office, Microfilm, U310-F69 [indexed by the writer]. See his upcoming notes from his autobiog. Merchant 23 Earl-street, Blackfriars, by 1815. Kynaston, City of London, p. 29. He became an EICo director at early age of 27, recommended by Manning the father of the Cardinal Manning, on recommendation of George Grote Snr. He retired early from business. He is son of a timber merchant. See Kynaston, City of London, p. 29, p. 84. AA says he had a long tree for this man, just can't find it. See Pemberton, AACo, p. 86 or so. James Macarthur was introduced to this man a director of the Bank of England, and an original director of AACo, by one Thomas Hobbes Scott. this man has two sons bankers. Y. Cassis, on bankers, p. 215. Pemberton London Connection, lists of AACo investors. Update from Anon of Australia via e-mail of 19-9-2006.
AACo investor 1824: John Studholme Brownriig (1786-1853). He died Dec 1858 in Staines, Midx, in an e-mail from Penny Graham of 7 Sep 2006 being descended from John Brownrigg of Tubberpatrick Co. Wexford, Ireland and wife Mary Studholme dr of Eliakim Studholme of Dublin. John Studholme Brownrigg. Contractor. Code-red. See name Brownrigg in http - arbuthnot - k_1.htm - He is 1834 London director of Bank A/asia. Stenton, British parltns, Vol. 1, p. 51. Pemberton, p. 363, he is an EICo cadet in army in 1800. In 1820 he joined Palmer and Co. in Calcutta, then Palmer, McKillop and Co. (See notes from Gouger's book on South Australia) in London in 1823, in 1829 he joined Cockerell, Traill and Co, [senior partner is Sir Charles Cockerell qv and Co] later visiting India on business in 1830-1832. He lived in Lower Berkeley St Mayfair, and was a promoter and director of Bank of Australasia in 1832. Cf., Broeze on Brooks. See Pemberton, London Connection, p. 346. Stenton, Brit Parlts, Vol. ?, p. 51 says he is of Carlton. Married in 1 812. He is a merchant of London and member of firm of Sir Charles Cockerell and Co. He is a dep-gov of AACo and director of Royal Bank of Australasia. A conservative in England, voting for agricultural protection in 1846. Possibly a Mason at Lodge No 441 and in 38th Foot. Pauline Currien - I have been researching the Brownriggs of Mauritius as it relates through marriage to one of my own ancestors (Emily Rogers who married William Meadows Thomas Brownrigg in 1856) and I had collected together information on a James Stuart Brownrigg (?-1879) Colonial Postmaster of Mauritius.... However with the help of masses of research done by the Brownrigg family it would seem that the J.S.Brownrigg you refer to is JOHN STUDHOLME BROWNRIGG (1786-1853) who served as a soldier in the Bengal Army (Ensign in 1801) fought in the 2nd Mahratta War and was at the capture of Java. He became Secretary to the Military Board of East India Co. in Calcutta but resigned in 1820 to become a merchant in Calcutta / England. In 1832 he contested Boston in Lincolnshire and became an MP. He was married to Elizabeth CASAMAJOR. That is all I have about him specifically although they were a very large family with branches in Tasmania, Australia (NSW), India (Bombay and Calcutta), Ceylon and Mauritius. From the family tree I have compiled they descend from General Thomas Brownrigg who married Anne Shearman of Co Kilkenny in 1795. He seems to be the Thomas Brownrigg who was Comptroller of Accounts in Dublin circa 1809-25. He died 1826. Many branches seem to descend from this couple. There was a JSB Provincial GM of Freemasons, Surrey, circa 1876. He married to Elizabeth Casamajor. He is MP for Boston Lancs in thepeerage.com.
1829: NZ Merchant John Israel Montefiore (c1808-c.1897). Does he have a brother Benjamin? ux34 Or, John Julius Montefiore. He never married but had a part-Maori dr. Arrived Sydney from London on 19 August 1829 and left for Tauranga NZ. Began to deal in flax, pork and potatoes, and he travelled eg to Rorarua. By 1836 he lived at Bay of Islands, and in August 1836 bought lands at Manawaora and acted as ship's chandler. In 1836, 213 British nationals in NZ petitioned William IV for protection to carry on their businesses in NZ. Montefiore himself regarded most of the Europeans he met as ruffians. In December 1836 he left NZ on whaler Montreal to arrive Sydney 11 March 1837, when he began to write a series of 15 articles for Sydney Morning Hereald titled Sketches of New Zealand. By 6 March 1840 he returned to Bay of Islands to open a store at Kororereka, near the stores of Joel Samuel Polack and David Nathan (another Jew), as a ship's chandler and bulk food provider. Went to Auckland in March 1841, and bought land there for Sydney-based operators. In July 1841 he invested in a new Auckland Newspaper and General Printing Company, which had The New Zealand Herald and Auckland Gazette, edited by Samuel McDonald Martin, who adopted an anti-government line and was vocal on land claim matters. The paper however folded. SIn 1846 with 17 other businessmen he helped found Auckland Savings Bank, intended to assist lower-classes whites and Maori. The bank as later taken over by government. Was friends with John Logan Campbell qv. In 1850 returned to London, but JL Campbell talked him into returning by 1855, to manage [William] Brown and [JL] Campbell. Indulged in too much land speculation and was dismissed in 1859. He then disposed of assets and left NZ for good in 1860, to Sydney then London, lived at Southsea. See email from Richard Quinn in NZ of late May 2005. Stone book p. 196, he is a London aristocratic family, first in NZ in 1831, a trader on sea front of Kororareka, he is in Sydney 1835-1841, then he went to Auckland's first land sale, largely as agent of Sydney capitalists, he is later apptd as manager for NZ firm, Brown and Campbell (See here, Campbell Barts). He has a half-caste dr. Stone's book on John Logan Campbell of NZ. Cousin of Joseph Barrow Montefiore. See A. H. Matheson, 'J. I. Montefiore: early New Zealand trader', Historical Review, 30, No. 2, Nov 1982, pp. 106-109.
1827: He (who?) has brothers John and Walter; cf Marnie Bassett in book on Hentys of West Australia and Melbourne. Had a grant of 100,000 acres. He was in command of ship Success when it first arrived in WA in 1827, he went then to England and was apptd gov of the colony, returning on Parmelia of 1 Jun 1829. His own ADB entry. He resigned on October 1837 but did not relinquish duty till Feb 1839 when he left on ship Champion, returning to navy. See Barker's chronology, Stirling is replaced as Gov of WA on Jan 3, 1839 by John Hutt. See Broeze on Brooks re his marriage to Ellen Mangles. After his taking of WA, politicians in England trembled at a cost of a new acquisition. Stirling had contacts, investors and speculators, unnamed, and explored various ideas for a new colony (like Georgia, like the AACo?), but he never wanted convicts at WA. Sir George Murray was a friend of the Stirling family who took up the idea. His friend Horace Twiss was also a friend of Stirlings. Stirling arrived in WA on storeship Parmelia, owner not named (Somes? see my lists). By 1837 there was the whining of frustrated speculators. in 1833 a Mangles-inspired effort to settle Anglo-Indians near Albany on the south coast foundered when the first vessel was lost in 1833 with all hands, ship unnamed. He has a nephew Andrew Stirling who died in 1844, looking after his colonial affairs, not so successfully. By July 1851, Stirling was a rear-admiral. his youngest son is Walter, killed in Indian Mutiny. Cf., P. J. Boyce, The Role of the governor in WA, 1829-1890. MA thesis, University of WA, 1961. F. K. Crowley, Australia's Western Third. London, 1960.
1825: Woolbroker Frederick Row (active 1825) Code-Aust. Fellmonger and wool broker. ADB online entry in Richard Goldsbrough qv. He with Hugh Parker had a Victorian hide and skin business. Assoc and cousin of Richard Goldsbrough qv. Goldsbrough before 1860 had partnership with Edward Row and George Kirk. http on Row Family of Stamford Park by HSC student Debra Truin and documents at LaTrobe Library, Melbourne.
1825: US Financier Nathaniel Prime (1768-1840). With Samuel Ward. Nathaniel Prime, of Prime Ward and King, Stock and Commision brokers. Per Linda Minor. A few doors below Wall street court entrance in 1830 was a marble building erected by Nathaniel Prime. It had offices in the upper part. The main floor was occupied as the banking rooms of the great banking house of Prime, Ward & King. What a wonderful firm that was thirty years ago! Originally it was "Nathaniel Prime, Stock and Commission Broker, No. 42 Wall Street," in 1796. In 1808, he took in Samuel Ward as a partner, and the firm was then Prime & Ward. In 1816 Joseph Sands was made a partner, and the firm was Prime, Ward & Sands, still doing business at the old stand, No. 42 Wall Street, until 1825, when the office was temporarily removed, in order that the present building might be erected. That year, James G. King was made a partner, and the firm was Prime, Ward, Sands, King & Co. Joseph Sands of the above firm, was a son of the celebrated Comfort Sands, who died in 1835. In 1826 Joseph left the above firm, and it again became Prime, Ward, King & Co. James Gore King, of the above firm, had previously been engaged in business in Liverpool, England, under the firm of King & Gracie. After he returned to this country, he was taken into the great firm for his financial ability, and the firm changed as above stated. ***Mr. Prime bought the house on the corner of Broadway and Battery Place, now occupied as the Washington Hotel. He lived there many years, and saw his sons and his daughters intermarrying with the first families in New York. Thirty years ago, Mr. Prime was deemed the third richest man in New York, and yet no one set him down as worth over a million! Thirty years ago there was but one man in this town worth over a million; that one was John Jacob Astor. There were four other rich men -- Robert Lenox, John G. Coster, Stephen Whitney, and Nat Prime; the latter was regarded as the most wealthy of the last four names. Mr. Nathaniel Prime, of the great firm of Prime, Ward & King, did not legitimately belong to the old set. He claimed a place, however, for his sons and his daughters had intermarried with the Jays, the Rays, the Sands, the Palmers, and the undoubted old families. Aside from this, his partners were of the pure breed. Prime, Ward & King were the first large genuine private bankers in the city of New York. They allowed interest on all sums deposited with them for either a short or long term. They bought up good bills on Paris or London, and remitted to their bankers, and then every packet day, Prime, Ward and King were large sellers of their own sterling and French bills at one per cent more than they paid for the best private bills. Such was their credit. The firm had no rivals at that time. J.L. & S. Josephs had a banking house on the corner of Wall and Hanover. They were the agents of the Rothschilds, but had no such standing in this town as Prime, Ward & King. Old Nat Prime was a fearfully long-headed man. He could see through a mill-stone quicker than any other man in Wall Street. But he was frequently sold. On one occasion a Hartford horse jockey, named Adam Hitchcock, sold him a leopard-spotted horse for $1500. It was alright until the white and black horse got caught out in a rain, when such a mixing of paints occurred as perfectly astonished him. Mr. Prime left behind him three fine sons -- Edward, who succeeded him in the firm in 1831; Rufus, who at one time formed one of the firm of Christmas, Livingston, Prime & Coster. What a firm that was! Charles Christmas (he is now a partner of August Belmont) had been for fifteen years book-keeper, or head clerk, for Prime, Ward & King. He was a long-headed genius. Robert Livingston was a brother of Mortimer Livingston, of the Havre packet line agents, C. Bolton, Fox & Livingston, who married a daughter of Francis Depau, who married Sylvie de Grasse, a daughter of that Count de Grasse who commanded the French fleet on this coast in the Revolutionary war. Another member of the C.L.P.C. firm was Washington Coster. What a gay boy was Wash. Coster! He married a daughter of old Francis Depau, and there were cart loads of gold on both sides of the house. Wash, was not a son of old John G. Coster -- he was a nephew. Poor fellow, he was fond of good eating and good drinking, and he paid the penalty. He died on a sofa at Blancard's Globe Hotel in Broadway near Exchange Street, now a dry goods store. Wash, got no sleep for several days, and a celebrated Irish adventurer named John S. Nugent (who was hired by Cozzens as a bar-keeper, and wound up his week's work by running away and marrying the sister of Mr. Cozzens, (West Point Hotel) -- gave him a dose of morphine to make him sleep. It was successful, for poor Wash. has never woke up since, unless he made an unknown turn over in the grave. Mr. Prime had a third son named Frederick. He was a lawyer, and married a granddaughter of the great John Jay, chief Justice in Washington's day of the United States. Cf., Per Ken Cozens, Walter Barrett, 1863, The Old Merchants of New York City, Second Series.
1815: Opium trader Captain Thomas Pattle (1773-1815) He is member of Canton Civil Service in 1788 and second member of select committee 1805-1801. Later also 1812-1813-1814-185. He is appointed a supercargo in 1794, provers of his will in 1815 are Sir William Fraser and Charles Magniac. The residue of his estate was invested in 1865. Data per brother of Mary Hover. In Hover data he is Dir EICo. See data per Mary Hover. He has estate of not £90,000 as he thought but £163,769. He is link to Pattle re wife 1 of EG Wakefield? Burke's P&B for Brooke of Sarawak. He is a link to Pattle re Sir Leslie Stephen. A witness to his m2 is Thomas Hillman. He has brothers James and William of Bengal Light Cavalry. He is Canton merchant in Bloomfield, p. 35. He is brother of Jim "Blazes" (with seven drs) Pattle of Bengal Civil Service and half-cousin of the father of Rajah Brooke of Sarawak. Bloomfield table on Wakefield. Mary Pattle's brother's data might suggest he has brothers James and William, sisters Sara Rocke, Eliza Mitford, Sophia Lay (?) she marries James Gardiner (?).
1803 Re Huddart shipping line See the ADB online entry re Huddart shipping line. Get back to William Huddart, Unpathed Waters: Account of the life and times of Joseph Huddart, FRS. London. Quillen Press. 1989. This man is FRS, EICo Capt, an Elder Brother of Trinity House. See Barker's book of chronology. Huddart and Co. is established about 1803 by Sir R Wigram, Capt J. Woolmore and Charles H. Turner and in 1807 employed William Cotton (1786-1866) merchant and philanthropist, son3 of Joseph Cotton. This William Cotton m to Sarah the only dr of Thomas Lane, she had seven children including Sir Henry Cotton, Lord Justice Court of Appeal.
1801: Arthur Hogue (1771-1828). He visited England in 1822. He is partner of William Tough qv 1801-1803. This man works from Calcutta. See also Dyster, on Fanning and Jones, re W. S. Davidson. Hainsworth, Traders, p. 88 re half owner of cargoes of John and Harrington with Chace, Chinnery and Co of Madras. See Hainsworth, Builders, p. 94. S. B. Singh, p. 13. James Broadbent, Suzanne Rickard and Margaret Steven, India, China, Australia: Trade and Society, 1788-1850. Sydney, Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 2003. Part of firm, Hogue, A. L. Davidson (died 1841) and Robertson from 1811, Robertson being new, John Robertson (bc 1762 and ex-Cape Colony and had a dr MaryAnn) brother of Alexr, Walter Davidson, Alexr Robertson (had dr Anne) Alexr b. 1760 maybe in Banff Scotland . His death notice in Vol. 26 of The Asiatic Journal and monthly register for British and foreign ... Both he and brother had legit and illegit progeny. There is a Robertson nephew William R of Cape Colony.
1805: William Chaceman Tough (nd). See Abbott and Nairn, p. 274. See Hainsworth, Traders, p. 88. James Broadbent, Suzanne Rickard and Margaret Steven, India, China, Australia: Trade and Society, 1788-1850. Sydney, Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 2003. He brought two ships to Sydney for Chace Chinnery and Co. as their agent, and by 1805 they had interests in sealskins and sea-elephant oil. By 1803 he still had goods worth 18,560 pounds on hand which he tried to offload in South America. He arrived in Sydney in 1801 on brig John. He is once partner, to 1803, with Arthur Hogue qv a senior director of Hogue, Davidson and Co. (Broadbent et al, p. 76).
1800: active. Saunders. Could he be Robert the indigo dealer? See a Maria Cox qv m to Mr Saunders. And see also re Prinsep. See notes on Rbt Saunders a friend of William Prinsep in Calcutta, re AC Staples' article on Wm Prinsep Memoirs. Bateson's lists. He is probably the Saunders with convict contractor Prinsep and Saunders, traded with John Prinsep, as this man's son Robert teams with William Prinsep qv of Memoirs, out in Calcutta re an indigo mart, see AC Staples' article on Memoirs of William Prinsep. Email from Dan Morgan at Mass Inst Tech, DMorgan@nas.edu, see http://www.mit.edu/~dfm/genealogy/saunders.html. There is a Robert Saunders (1754-1825), yr brother of one Mr Saunders, the latter an ancestor of this Dan Morgan. a relative is a physician to Prince Regent, one relative is a Dean of Peterborough, who has a brother who is sec/general manager of Great Western Railway, the family is Scots from Banffshire, merchants and professionals. The possible son of the Saunders partner of Prinsep, is one Robert Saunders, a London indigo who has a son Rbt John Saunders qv (1792-1852). Also is a nephew one Robert Saunders (1792-1856), who is third great grandfather of Dan Morgan informant here.
1808 active: Hullett Bros. Owners re ship Argo, Macarthurs of NSW are friends with them see Pemberton, AACo p. 129. Of 102 Leadenhall Street in 1824. See Hainsworth, Builders, pp. 96ff. Lecouteur lists one John Hullett for the 1825 Canada Co., though I do not know if it is a man from the same family. There is mention of a John Hullett re Port Adelaide c 1850. There was a William Hullett about 1806 selling large amount of hops. There were Hulletts of London, carriers and malsters, John Hullett and wife Sarah had sons Thomas and William. Daniel Hullett was son of John Hullett and wife Mary. Hullett carriers of London bankrupted in 1797. There were Hulletts of Hunderton.
1805: Robert Wigram/Fitzwigram (1743-1744-1830). A website on Poplar says Greens and Wigram lived at Blackwall. See the name qv Woolmore, which creeps into Wigram second names over time. He is created bart in 1805. Burke's Landed Gentry (LG) for Akrwright of Sanderstead Court. Burke's LG for Wigram. Burke's LG for Long of Sydenham. Burke's P&B for Hope-Dunbar. Burke's LG for Smith of Shottesbrooke Park. See Burke's LG for Smith of Shottesbrooke Park. He is of Wexford. Burke's P&B for Wigram. 1963 edn. Stenton, Brit Partls, Vol. 1, p. 408. Stenton, Brit Partls, Vol. 1, p. 408. By about 1814, the firm is Sir Robert Wigram, George Green, Money Wigram and Henry Loftus Wigram. George Green was first apprenticed to Wigram's yard in 1782. He had a son William who becomes a director of EICo. He became a doctor on EICo ships, first the Admiral Watson (where he met W. T. Money), later the Duke of Richmond. He is first noted by 1764. See Chatteron on Mercantile Marine, pp. 94ff. He is noted re odd cross links with Bligh, Parnell cross to Catherine Georgiana Davidson (??). He had 23 children by two wives, wife2 still unknown. He is at Lloyd's. See Jones on Bennett, whaler. Fitton, Arkwright family biography. Burke's Peerage. Stenton, Brit Partsl, Vol. 1, p. 408. See Ian Berryman, p. 467 on Levey and Founding of WA. Byrnes, the Blackheath Connection, p. 97. See Lloyd's Register, 1778. He is of London and Wexford. His son Sir James (1793-1866). This is Sir Robert Wigram in shipping, born 1743-Nov 1830. Lubbock, p. 35 of which title? Walter M. Stern, 'The Isle of Dogs Canal: A Study in Early Public Investment', reprinted from , Economic History Review, Series 2, Vol. 4, No. 3, 1952., pp. 359-371. [Copy, Port of London Authority Library, Poplar] In order of size of shareholding, the notable investors included: Mayor of London, Commonality and Citizens of City, 29,000 shares. Ald William Champion, director, died same year, 5000 shares. George Hibbert, 9 Mincing Lane, 5000 shares. Robert Wigram, 3 Crosby Sq. 5000 shares. Peter Mellish, Shadwell Dock, 5000 shares. James Inglis, 8 Billiter Sq., 3000 shares. James and Edward Ogle, New City Chambers, 3000 shares each. William Lushington Jnr, 2500 shares. Thomas Plummer director, 2 Fen Court, 2500 shares. Abram Robarts, 28 Finsbury Sq., 2000 shares. Ald William Curtis, director, Southgate, 2000 shares. Benjamin Granger, 2000 shares. Arthur Shakespear, 118 Pall Mall, 2000 shares. John St. Barbe, 33 Seething Lane, 1000 shares. Duncan Campbell 8 Finsbury Sq., 1000 shares. Also linked to Reid Brewery. Bebbington list.
1815: West Australia Investor Solomon Levey (d.1833). Business entrepreneur. He once had a premises in Tokenouse Yard, London. His parents lived in Wentworth St., Whitechapel, London. He has early business at 72 George St. He arrived in NSW by 1815 transported on Marquis of Wellington. Was tried Midx in Oct 1813, Levey's attorney (in Sydney?) was James Holt so that the firm Cooper and Levey became Cooper and Holt. (There may also be children Deborah, Isaac, Philip, and others, see Hasluck, Thos Peel, p. 194.) Apart from what he left in 1833 to his son, Levey left assets (Hasluck, Thos Peel, p. 193) to Robert Brooks of 80 Broad Street, John Gore of Laurence Lane, London, merchant, and Benjamin Lindo of Finsbury Sq, Midx, merchant. (His life in Hasluck, Thomas Peel, p. 193 and variously.) Broeze p. 43 on Brooks says Levy owned the ship Gilmore on which Brooks took a mortgage, Gilmore which took Thomas Peel to Swan River. See I. Berryman, Solomon Levey and Thomas Peel: a re-appraisal. See Broeze on Brooks, pp. 43ff. See A. Hasluck, Thomas Peel of Swan River, Oxford, 1965. on Levy and Peel and Swan River. See Sylvia Morrissey essay in Griffin, on Waterloo Company, p. 65. See whaler station at Bennelong Point, Dakin, Whalemen Adventurers, p. 93, by 1829. See Hainsworth, Traders, pp. 239-240. W. D. Rubinstein, (Ed.), Jews in the Sixth Continent. Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 1987, with pp. 63-75 an article by Ian Berryman.
1811: Forbes and Co merchant David Deas Inglis (1778-1839). He had once stayed in London with one John Ord of Cheapside. He has son Herbert a tea planter in India. He has sons Cecil Powney born 1949 in India and brother Hugh born 1851 sent by father to farm fruit in Tasmania. He has drs Patty, Davina, son Wm. He has 7-8 children. He is partner with friend "Bombay Jack" who when Inglis has retired, entreats Inglis to re-invest in a venture - which fails. Inglis-Money tree per Iseke/Ken Money. Not in Hodson lists. He is in partnership with Wm. Taylor Money qv. His middle name is DEAS in new info to Iseke by 23-4-2001. Iseke says by 1-4-2001, Forbes and Campbell by 2001 is still operating in Karachi, Pakistan. Iseke by 1-4-2001 says Forbes, Forbes Campbell and Co Ltd, Merchants, Manufacturers, Importers, Exporters, Forbes Building, Home Street, Bombay 1. and says Money/Wigram became India Steamship Co which later merged/dealt-with P&O. He is co-founder in 1811 of Forbes and Co in Iseke tree. Per Iseke tree. Note from Pemberton thesis, p. 364, Rbt Campbell (1771-1858) at NSW an AACo investor, has fr John and Mother Jane Forbes. He may have a son Wm Inglis? All his yr children are born at Wood End House, he returns satisfied with his fortune from Bombay in 1812. He is with Forbes and Company of Bombay as a co-founder. He is in partnership with the Money family. Inglis/Willis family tree per Patricia Iseke and http. His marriage notice in Asiatic annual register Vol. 8. E-mail of 29-5-2010 from James Brennan with update. See a jstor article by JH Moore, The Deas-Thomson Papers in Australia, re South Carolinans.Also as a Google Books Result, David Dobson, Scots in the West Indies, 1707-1857.
1817: Governor Penang John Alexander Bannerman (1759-1819). Code-red. http://web.onetel.com/~pelhamwest/westfamily/ etc He is Gov Penang for EICo, M in Palamcotta, Madras, He went to India in 1777, returned to Brit in 1800, elected MP in 1806, member dir of EICo in 1808, appted gov Penang in 1817 and had extended dispute with Stamford Raffles, of Singapore. http - bannerman.html by dmorgan - See http by Winson Saw, on governors of Penang and Malaysia, http://news.webshots.com/photo/
1794: US -China merchant George Griswold (1777-1859) Noted land speculator especially in Brooklyn. Some gold mining. Director of Columbia Insurance Co. He had a dr who married John C Greene of Russell and Co. Re firm of N. L and G. Griswold, began 1794, began shipping flour to West Indies, by 1804 imported sugar and rum, then into China trade, owned three different ships all named "Panama", No 1 was in China trade, No 3 was of 1170 tons. Cf., Per Ken Cozens, Walter Barrett Clerk, 1863, The Old Merchants of New York City, Second Series. http on Holcombe Genealogy. Named in Anon., author of the article Before Skull and Bones, at http://www.smokershistory/before.html, a 43-page article, from a rabid website railing against the US anti-smoking movement, apparently from Carol A. S. Thompson, Madiscon, Wisconsin, USA. Where he is a director of Columbian Insurance Co., Glove Insurance Co., Bank of America, Franklin Fire Insurancce Co., Bank of United States, New York and Erie Railroad, and Illinois Central Railroad. Director of Galveston Bay and Texas Land Co. Dealt with Richard Alsop of Philadelphia, had "Bank of United States in New York", with a mere $200,000 using Morris Robinson as its president.
US-China merchant William Shepard Wetmore (1801-1862). He began as supercargo for a ship to Valparaiso of Edward Carrington and Co, of Providence. Founder of W. S. Wetmore and Co. Once linked with an agent Richard Alsop their agent at Canton, fell out with him, was then with Wetmore and Cryder. Later in life he has links with Maryland merchant banker George Peabody. In China he is partner with Dunn and Co and formed ties with its junior partner Joseph Archer (son of Samuel), then had operation with Joseph Archer Wetmore and Co. . His own wikipedia entry, He is opposed to opium trade. He has a US-China firm with Canton man of Philadelphia, Joseph Archer. His wife 2 Rogers has a scandalous affair with the family coachman, and Wetmore tried to maintain discretion. Cf., Walter Barrett, 1863, The Old Merchants of New York City, Second Series.
James Whyte He is premier Tasmania 1863-1866. He married a daughter of Thomas George Gregson (1798-1874.)
1786: American mariner James Magee (born Ireland 1750-1801), He has brother Bernard a mariner on ship Jefferson of 1793? btp for more http on Mass graveyard. In 1777 he was on privateer Independence which captured British ship Countess. He was on Am Rev Privateer General Arnold 20 guns crew of 105 (probably owned by Nathaniel Tracy), which he sailed in 1778. He had to come into Plymouth Harbour during a freezing storm, could not be got to for three days, 70 of his men froze, mass grave for them. Married in 1783. Had nine children, three sons and six drs. After Rev went into China trade in 1786 sailing Hope (Magee is part owner) from NY in Feb 1786 with Shaw as supercargo, later the first US consul to China, then Magee was using ship Astrea (supercargo Thomas H. Perkins supercargo) of 1789, tea, ginseng, silks, lacquerware, chinaware. In 1791-1794 using ship Margaret (which went by nort-west American coast, got 11,000 seal skins at St Ambrose, found sealing going well at Falkland Islands) had such a successful voyage he retired from sea, removed to Roxbury. Another ship in that freezing storm had not come in and survived off Cape Cod, Magee after Rev remained guilty about deciding to come in, to disaster, and retained an interest in the welfare of his crew-survivors. Cf online item at www.archive.org/stream/, The history of early relations between the United States and China 1784-1844, New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1917/1918. Cf, jstor article Henry Lee, 'The Magee Family and the Origins of the [US] China Trade', Massachusetts Historical Society, 1969. NB: There are unrelated Magees in the Massachusetts area, do not confuse.
1785: Richard Cadman Etches (d1817.1818): Merchant shipowner of London and a tea dealer. A link to Sir William Curtis. (Cozens' thesis 2005.) From House of Lords Journal re marriage matters, item, Brooks and Etches against Jenden: And also upon reading the Petition of Edward Jenden, Defendant in a Writ of Error depending in this House, wherein Mary Camilla Brook(s) [Etches, a tea dealer, investor in King George Sound Company along with Nathaniel Gilmour merchant of Gosport], and Richard Cadman Etches are Plaintiffs; setting forth, "That the Plaintiffs in the said Writs of Error have not assigned Errors within the Time limited by their Lordships' standing Order;" and therefore praying, "That the said Writs of Error may be Non-pros'd with such Costs as to their Lordships shall seem meet:"
His King George's Sound Company has Portlock and Dixon qv. See also Gibson, Otter, pp. 23ff VIP and variously. See corresp with Anthony Twist, and chronology notes for 1785-1792. Do I recall that Twist's wife has a descent from Etches here? Article on Cadman Etches is… Richard H. Dillon, ‘A Plan for Convict Colonies in Canada: R. Cadman Etches, Pat Wilson, Richard H. Dillon’, The Americas, Vol. 13, No. 2, October 1956 (published by Academy of American Franciscan History), pp. 187-198. Via http://www.jstor.org/ - This man has a son or nephew, William Etches, and associates, John Hanning, Mary Camilla Brook, Nathaniel Gilmour, and captains Nathaniel Portlock and George Dixon both sailing for King George's Sound Company. Ken Cozens says he finds on the IGI some names Etches resident in St Petersburg, Russia. See also for sidelights on Etches' activities as a spy, Michael Durey (Murdoch University, Australia), 'The British Secret Service and the Escape of Sir Sidney Smith from Paris in 1978', History, The Historical Association (UK), ???, 1999, pdf file from the Internet. Elizabeth Sparrow, 'Secret Service under Pitt's Administration, 1792-1806', History, lxxxiii, 1998, pp. 280-294. Richard H. Dillon, ‘A Plan for Convict Colonies in Canada: R. Cadman Etches, Pat Wilson, Richard H. Dillon’, The Americas, Vol. 13, No. 2, October 1956 (published by Academy of American Franciscan History), pp. 187-198. Via http://www.jstor.org/ - on 5-3-2011.
Port Etches From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Port Etches is a bay in the southcentral part of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located on the west side of Hinchinbrook Island and opens onto Hinchinbrook Entrance, a strait between Hinchinbrook Island and Montague Island, connecting Prince William Sound and the Gulf of Alaska.
Port Etches was named by Captain Nathaniel Portlock in July 1787, presumedly for John Cadman Etches or Richard Cadman Etches, who with "other traders entered into a commercial partenship, under the title of the King George's Sound Company (also known as Richard Cadman Etches and Company), for carrying a fur trade from the western coast of America to China. George Dixon, who accompanied Portlock, called it "Port Rose". Russian fur traders gave it the name "Zaliv Nuchek". It's earliest known European name was "Puerto de Santiago", given on July 23, 1779, by Ignacio de Arteaga, during his exploration voyage with Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra. The name commemorated Saint James, the patron saint of Spain, whose feast day falls on July 25.[1] While the Spaniards were anchored in Port Etches they performed a formal possession ceremony. All the officers and chaplains went ashore in procession, raised a large cross while cannons and muskets fired salutes. The Te Deum was sung, followed by a litany and prayers. After a sermon was preached a formal deed of possession was drawn up and signed by the officers and chaplains. The title to Puerto de Santiago was important for years afterward, as it formed the basis of Spain's claim to sovereignty in the North Pacific up to 61°17′N.[2]
Elizabeth Needham
1790: About Thomas Melville whaling captain (1757-1814).
List of ships commanded by Thomas Melvill
BRITANNIA OF LONDON No 245 in 1790
Appointed master 31 December 1790 and in command until 16th October 1793
Owners Samuel and Charles Enderby of Paul's Wharf, Thames Street, London
Vessel Lost in 1806 in New Zealand.
SPEEDY OF LONDON No 220 in 1793
Appointed Master at London 12th November 1793, in command until April 1797
Vessel reported to have been captured by a French Privateer registry closed Jan 1807
TABAGO OF LONDON No 138 in 1797
Appointed Master London 3rd June 1797 and in command until some time in 1799
Owners James &Thomas Mather and John Anderson, Merchants of Mark Lane, London
SCARBOROUGH OF LONDON, No 274 in 1798
Appointed master 18th December 1799 and in command until 2nd December 1800
Owner Charles Kensington and William Wiggen, Merchants, of Bishopsgate Street, London.
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Ship's captain for Enderby & Sons. By 1789 Enderbys had further researched the waters by Peru with Emilia, followed for them, by Friendship. Captain Melville, who was in 1791 sent out with the Third Fleet in Britannia. Melville by 1791 had become a valuable man, the one whaling captain knowing most of the new whaling opportunities in the Pacific, both by Peru and near Sydney. He was an experienced commander - one account describes him as experienced in that he had rounded Cape Horn a number of times. He thus helped established a whale fishery off the coast of Peru. Other issues besides whaling that were playing out in the British parliment, the strangle hold the Dutch East India Trading company had, which would need an Act of Parliment to change, was amanded to allow the whalers access to the trade zones.
Britannia. Full rigged ship, whaler, 301 tons. Built Bridport, UK, 1783. Owned by Samuel Enderby & Sons, she was the first vessel to engage in whaling in the southern Pacific. Wrecked on either Elizabeth or Middleton Reef, Pacific Ocean, 25 August 1806. Three boats left the wreck but one containing eight men was apparently lost in a gale. The remaining two reached Newcastle on 8 September.
This is a letter written to his employer, Sam Enderby and Sons. Note that NSW had only very recently been settled for the first time.
Ship Britannia,
Sydney, Port Jackson.
Nov. 22nd, 1791.
To Messrs. Sam. Enderby & Sons,
GENTLEMEN,
I have the pleasure to inform you of our safe arrival in Port Jackson in New South Wales, October 13th after a passage of 55 days from the Cape of Good Hope. We was only six weeks from the Cape to Van Diemens Land, but met with contrary winds after we doubled Van Diemen's Land, which made our passage longer than I expected.
We parted company with our agent the next day after we left the Cape of Good Hope and never saw him again till we arrived at Port Jackson both in one day. The Albemarle and us sailed much alike. The Admiral Barrington arrived three days after us. I am very well myself thank God, and all the crew are in high spirits. We lost in all on our passage from England twenty one convicts and one soldier. We had one birth on our passage from the Cape. I try'd to make and made Island of Amsterdam and made it in the I,longitude of 76.4.14.E from Greenwich by a good lunar observation. My intention was to run close to it to discover whether the Sealing business might not have been carried on there but the weather was so bad and thick weather coming on, I did not think it prudent to attempt it, likewise to lose a night's run and a fair wind blowing. The day before we made it we saw two shoals of Sperm Whales. After we doubled the South West Cape of Van Diemens Land we saw a large Sperm Whale off Maria's Islands but did not see any more being very thick weather and blowing hard till within 15 leagues of the latitude of Port Jackson Within three leagues of the shore we saw Sperm Whales in great plenty. We sailed through different shoals of them from 12 o'clock in the day till sunset, all round the horizon, as far as I could see from the mast head. In fact I saw very great prospects in making our fishery upon this coast and establishing a fishery here. Our people was in the highest spirits at so great a sight and I was determined as soon as I got in and got clear of my live lumber, to make all possible despatch on the Fishery on this Coast.
On our arrival here I waited upon His Excellency, Governor Phillip and delivered my letters to him. I had the mortification to find he wanted to despatch me with my convicts to Norfolk Island and likewise wanted to purchase our Vessel to stay in the Country, which I refused to do. I immediately told him secret of seeing the whales thinking that would get me off going to Norfolk Island that there was a prospect of establishing a fishery here and might be of service to the Colony and left him. I waited upon him two hours afterwards with a box directed to him. He took me into a Private Room, he told me he had read my letters and that he would render me every service, that lay in his power: that next morning he would dispatch every long boat in the fleet to take our convicts out and take on our stores immediately which he did accordingly and he did everything to dispatch us on the Fishery. Captain King used all his interest in the business. He gave his kind respects to you. The secret of seeing the whales, our sailors could not keep from the rest of the whalers here, the news put them all to the stir, but have the pleasure to say we was the first ship ready for sea. Notwithstanding they had been some of them a month arrived before us. We went out in Company with the Will and Ann, [footnote 3
1782: US -India merchant Lewis Pintard (1732-1818). Of Huguenot background. Went into American-East Indies trade as early as 1782-1783. His wife is sister of a Signer. Cf., Per Ken Cozens, Walter Barrett, 1863, The Old Merchants of New York City, Second Series. A great merchant of his day, helped incorporate the New York Chamber of Commerce. Agent for American prisoners. He had one daughter.
1775: US Treasurer Michael Hillegas (1728-1729/1804.) Re his daughter marries a relatives of father of painter Gilbert Stuart who painted Washington an image on the US dollar. He is from a family of German descent. Sugar refiner and iron merchant. Son of a merchant dealing in sugar and iron. Became the first treasurer of USA. From websites we find that US Dept. of Treasury is not commenced/created till 1798, advises president on fiscal policy and acts as a fiscal agent for the US federal govt. In 1798 the US Dept Treasury was government (Cabinet) dept responsible for issuing all Treasury Bonds, notes and bills. Also, oversight of US banks. During the Rev, re Articles of Confederation, the limited financial administration of the the US was undertaken by a superintendent of finance (largely Robert Morris) who was replaced in 1784 by a Treasury Board. The original Continental Congress created joint treasurers of the United Colonies on 29 July 1775, appointing Michael Hillegas and George Clymer to serve (authorized to borrow money). They had to live in Philadelphia, the home of the Congress. First task was to raise money for prosecuting the Revolution. (American paper money was first known as "Continentals" [notes].) On 6 August 1776 Clymer resigned and left Hillegas as sole Continental Treasurer. Hillegas often used his own money to help support the Revolutionary effort. Hillegas served till 11 September 1789 to be succeeded by Samuel Meredith who served till 3 October 1801. In 1789 following ratification, the US needed machinery for tax collection, custody of Federal funds and account-keeping. So Dept. of Treasury was created by 1789, and its head ranked second after Secretary of State (which department was created in ?? perhaps by Jefferson -->fact), the first such secretary being Alexander Hamilton (who took over the day Hillegas resigned and Meredith took over as Treasurer). The office of US Treasurer was also created in 1789 to receive and pay out federal funds. The Mint was created in 1792, the Internal Revenue Service in 1862, the Comptroller of Currency in 1863, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (1877) and US Customs Service (1927), Bureau of Public Debt (1940). Until 1829 the Treasury Dept. supervised US Postal Service and until 1849 the General Land Office. Not till 17 July 1861 did Congress pass its first Federal law authorising the US government to issue paper money. He is noted in Albert S. Bolles, Financial History of the United States, nd. Cf., Emma St Clair Whitney (great-grand-dr of Michael), Michael Hillegas and his descendants, Pottsville PA,1891. via www.archive.org/stream/ A musician, Hillegas played piano, flute and fiddle. He inherited his father's real estate, which included land on the bank of the Delaware River. Later in life he was associated with Martick Forge Co., Lehigh Coal Mining Co., Pennsylvania Land Co. In religion he was (1) Dutch Reformed Church and (2) Episcopalian. (See online, Michael M. Groat's Genealogical Database.)
1810: Succeeds Aaron Graham on the Hulks. John Henry Capper (1773-1852) Clerk in Home Office. He in Intolerable Hulks has a nephew Robert who works for him. AAco shareholder in Pemberton thesis. This note from Jean Bell, 22-5-1994, See Intolerable Hulks, his guilt feelings re involvements with hulks, his son came to New Zealand with the "Albertlanders", an Amish or Quaker community, Plymouth Brethren, by 1854, North Auckland area. some of these folk in the book business. Finally the NZ Cappers only had daughters [and the name died out?] He wrote The Emigrant's Guide to Australia. Three editions by 1856. See re time of Caroline Chisholm. He succeeded Aaron Graham on the hulks. He and nephew were forced to resign due to allegations of corruption. See W. B. Johnson. The English Prison Hulks. There was a Robert Henry Capper who married to Annie McCauley.
1822: AACo investor George Thomas Palmer. (1784-1854). Of Pemberton Grange, Parramtta. In one earlier view presumably incorrect he is born 1797. Code-Aust. Code-red. He had nine children. His own ADB online entry. He is an AACO investor with Pemberton listings. Joint secretary of Ag Soc NSW at its inception. See Greaves on Bathurst, p. 85. Mowle's Genealogy. He joined army, married, came to NSW with wife on Albion, in 1806 as a Lt with 61st Regt, had place Pemberton Grange, shareholder in AACo. He and wife had nine children. Updates per emailer Lefayre Palmer of December 2007. Hello,
1825: India cotton trader Wiillam Fairlie (d.1825). Contractor assisting Wellesley militarily in India. Code-India. Code-red. Some info from potted history by art dealers Philip Mould Ltd., 29 Dover Street, London. he traded opium to China, and his ship Fairlie (built on Hoogli in 1811-1812) took many passengers to Australia. His larger ship William Fairlie worked London-Canton 1821-1832. He helped finance Danish ships in region, and had a trading network re Canton, Batavia, Manila, Penang and NSW. Was partner with David Scott Snr. Dealt with Beale brothers qv. He built the ship Fairlie on Hooghly River in 1811-1812, which later carried many migrants to Australia. Also had ship William Fairlie re run London-Canton 1821-1832. He dealt in rice, indigo and cotton plus opium to China. He helped fund Wellesley's wars in India against the Marathas and Tipu Sultan of Mysore with elephants, bullocks, camels and victuals. His first premises are recorded in 1794. His noted portrait by artist Robert Home in Feb 1802 for 3000 rupees. He is partner with fellow Ayreshirman John Fergusson qv and is assoc with David Scott Snr. On a staff menber see re Andrew Hunter born 1776 qv who m Helen Campbell qv. Per Iseke and p. 184 of book on Bombay country ships, this man annoys David Scott in London at time 1799-1800 of failure of James Tate qv in Bombay. Note there is William Fairlie in Burke's P&B for Fergusson of Kilkerran, with dr Margaret who m to John Stuart Hay-Newton then to Major Rbt Fergusson. See Burke's P&B for Bruce of Stenhouse. Where does name Fairlie-Cuninghame come from in Mowle's Genealogy, p. 297? Is he (if so, has a son2 John and is in Burke's Peerage as own line) the man named in Burke's P&B for Home- Purves- Hume-Campbell? One house linked here was Fairlie, Reid and Co of Calcutta which grew from John Reid of Reid and Gildart by the 1780s, and later there were Andrew and David Reid, linked to John Reid, so the elder Reid, [presumably John the senior], went with Fairlies and Fergussons to produce Fairlie, Reid and Co. See W. E. Cheong on Jardine/M, p. 10. W. E. Cheong in China Houses, 1825, p. 58 says Charles Magniac and Co. inherited Fairlie and Bonham in London as its London agent. See Parker's essay, pp. 199ff in R. A. Cage's book. This William Fairlie left home in the early 1780s to set up as a free merchant in Bengal with his fellow Ayrshireman, John Fergusson of Donhold, died 1790, qv. Fairlie accepted cash from EICo employees, Hhe handled work for other firms on a commission basis, later in the UK traded on his own account, invested in inland projects. His firm had a monopoly on contracts to supply EICo's Bengal army with elephants, bullocks and victuals. He was one of the two largest shipowners in Calcutta and had about 25,000 tons by 1810-1813. He helped set up Calcutta Life Insurance Co. William Fairlie went back to London in 1790 to be thought of by Dundas as "the greatest European merchant, I suppose, ever came from India...". VIP see notes on William Walker (1787-1854) qv. S. B. Singh, p. 159, in 1811, Fairlie and Co. wanted brig Eagle to go to PJ to pick up fur skins belonging to them there for the London market. Singh, p. 96 re Fairlie and Reid in Bengal let ships to carry goods to England, in Warren Hastings and Caledonia. Singh, p. 44, in 1791 Fairlie expected two ships at Bombay would bring him $60,000 on his own account from China, ie, more export of specie from China which began about 1790. Singh, p. 23, agent for Calcutta Insurance co. S. B. Singh, Fairlie Fergusson and Co. linked with David Scott and Co. of London, which later became Fairlie, Bonham and Co, when Wm Fairlie went to London in London, which later became Fairlie, Bonham and Co, when Wm Fairlie went to London in 1812. Mr David Scott at one time chairman of Court of Directors. William Fairlie a partner in David Scott and Co of London, while from the 1780s Fairlie and Fergusson and Co became Fergusson Fairlie and Co, Fairlie Reid and Co, Fairlie Gilmore and Co., Fairlie Fergusson and Co., Fergusson Clark and Co. See S. B. Singh, European Agency Houses in Bengal, 1783-1833, Calcutta. Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay. 1966., p. 9. See Steven in Abbott and Nairn, pp. 124ff. Need to make a separate file for India traders, Fairlie, Gilmore and Co., Traders, p. 87. Hainsworth, Traders, pp. 64ff. Email of 6 Feb 2007 from descendant Richard Fergusson of a partner of Fairlie. Cf, BR Tomlinson (School Oriental and African Studies, Univ London, research prof of Economic History), The Empire of Enterprise: Scottish business networks in Asian Trade, 1765-1832. Which discusss one network for David Scott and William Fairlie as network c 1800. Being New York (Gouvernour and Kemble), Copenhagen (Duntzfelt and Co), London (David Scott Jnr and Co, David Scott and separate firm William Lennie), Bombay, Alexander Adamson and Namchund Amichund), Calcutta (Fairlie Gilmore and Co and also William Fairlie), Penang (Robert Scott), Malacca, Batavia, Manila (Locatelle and Camper), Canton (Reid, Beale and Co., John Reid, Alexander Shank, Januario A. de Almeida, Vicente R. de Barron).
See B. R. Tomlinson, 'From Campsie to Kedgeree: Scottish Enterprise, Asian Trade and the Company Raj', Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 36, No. 4, October 2002, pp. 769-791 from jstor at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3876474 - Herep. 785 Tomlinson reportsthat Wm Fairlie became partner with John Fergusson in early 1780s, and Fergusson in 1780 had sent the first opium shipment from Calcutta to Canton via Macao in 1780. ux49 re e-mail of 16-6-2010 from Nick Hide. :
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1828: Walter Buchanan (1786/77-1856). Convict Contractor. [This entry needs severe rechecking.] Code-red. He is of Upper Woburn Place, Bloomsbury. He is a JP in this ref, He is of Sussex Place Hyde Park in Burke's LG for Nichols. Update from Pemberton thesis. He is of Lamb and Buchanan in Sydney 1820s-1830s etc. See Mowle's Genealogy. see VIP notes for this man's cousin, John Lamb, qv. He is cousin of Ranulph Dacre. See his name in Sydney Gazette eg 1828-1831. See Sydney Gazette of 23 April, 1829, this man ex-Buckle firm has lately built a ship Resource 280 tons for direct Aust trade, launched November 1828, sailed by a relative Lt James Walmesley, RN Buchanan intends in 1829 to build a similar vessel for Aust, he deals in Austn wool. need to find out what link he is (assume the same man) with the Walter Buchanan a partner with John Lamb qv. See D. E. Fifer, p. 94, he was once with Buckles, Bagster and Buchanan but left them and had a partnership with Ranulph Dacre qv VIP to research. He is AACo investor. Broeze on Brooks, p. 49ff. See Pemberton, London Connection, p. 346. Does he have agents Alfred Garrett and George Salt Tucker?
1830: Johann Friedrich Andreas Huth (). add re Chisholm. See www.ainslie.org.uk/ He is yr son. Code-South America. Code-Aust. Code-red. He founds Frederick Huth and Co in Burke's LG for Huth. He is active for Aust by 1809 (?) He is South American trade, wool broker, trader. See Burke's LG for Huth. Also noted in Burk's book on J. P. Morgans. See Frederick Huth in Y. Cassis on bankers, p. 214. See name Huth in Broeze, British Intercontinental, p. 206, Note 32. See J. Mayo p. 45 re name Huth in London, in "rich in hope". See Sydney Merchants and Wool Trade, 1821-1851, p. 93. He specialises in trade to west coast of South America. He is from Hanover via Corunna, to London by 1809 or so. See Y. Cassis on bankers, p. 214, this firm probably solidified during the Napoleonic wars. See J. Mayo, p. 45 of "rich in hope". their agents were J. B. Were in Melbourne. Kynaston, City of London, p. 26. Burke's Landed Gentry for Huth.
1842: On William Fanning (1816-1887). He assisted Caroline Chisholm, see her notes qv. William Fanning (1816-1887). Contractor maybe. Code-China. Code-Aust, Code-red. Burke's LG for Fanning says he is to Sydney in 1842, partner in Fanning, Griffiths and Co., owning 195,000 acres in Qld, while he and his Brother Fredk own 48,000 acres, he is of Australian Gold Mining Co. 1854, of Colonial Sugar Co., Union Bank Australia. Cf, M. Kelly, (Ed), The Discrete Interest of the Bourgeoisie, before the Age of Gold, in Nineteenth Century Sydney. Sydney. 1979, pp. 4-6; See Ruth Teale on Fanning in Vol. 4 of ADB He connects to Swanston in VDL and Victoria/Melbourne. More to come. See Broeze, p. 298 and Dyster article, Rise of William Fanning and the ruin of Richard Jones, copy held. Dyster says pp. 366ff, Fanning is an agent for George Dent and Co, the great tea and opium trader between China, India, Britain and Aust. Fanning a leading Sydney businessman, Fanning's diary began 1 April, 1841, opium war on, the existing Sydney agent for Dent and Co is Richard Jones qv, deeply in debt to Dent. Case of Ship Lord Amherst to Hobart. Dent's Tasmanian correspondent is Thomas Learmonth, who had friends Capt. Charles Swanston and Robert Kerr, who between them managed Tas consignments for Jardine and Matheson, Dent's major rival in China trade. Learmonth and Swanston were heavily involved in woolgrowing and land speculation in Australian mainland. By default, Jardine and Matheson had a virtual monopoly on tea etc for Tasmania. Fannings decided in Hobart to take on Richd Jones in Sydney by March 1842. Jones had been a leading Sydney merchant for WS Davidson for 30 years, Davidson ie the founder of Dent and Co and Jones's sleeping partner in Australian woolgrowing. Jones presided at Bank of New South Wales, a nominee in legislature, he "treasured" the China connection. Inside 18 months after meeting Fanning, Jones declared bankruptcy. Fanning was visited by Leslie Bros, brothers of William Leslie, and they had married into Macarthur family, the partner in China of Dents who was Fanning's special patron. Fanning dined with col-sec Macleay, Dent and Co. A "China giant", a firm Russell and Sturgis of Boston and Manila was the dominant foreign firm in the Philippines. Charles Swanston was Tasmania's leading banker and a political power. Dyster says Fanning's diary ties all the networks together. A Jardine-Matheson collection of papers at Cambridge has despatches from John Thacker, a merchant ex-Bombay and Sydney who had gone to Sydney in 1842 to agent for Jardine-Matheson consigments. Thacker called Fanning a "dog in the manger" re treatment of Jones. Fanning a keen underpricer. See re Fannings's family and name Huxley on HMS Rattlesnake and its tour around New Guinea. Fannings are members of the Dent family. see name John Wegulin. One of Dent's China residents, is William Leslie who apparently knew Fanning senior. Leslie is a nephew of WS Davidson. Patrick Leslie managed WS Davidson's sheep station which was named (????fixfind). See a link to one Edward Hamilton (1809-1898). In Sydney in 1840s, Fanning has a business partner, George Richard Griffiths (1802-1859), mention of one Henry Denison. Fanning had business connections with John Gore in London. He is member of first Committee re Family Colonization Loan Society, see Fifty-One Pieces of Wedding Cake, pp. 272-273.
1845: Alexander Dallas. He is director Jardine/Matheson for 1845-1854 in Keswick appendices. Per Jill Grey see 1837 Calcutta firm Dallas and Coles. He is with Jardine-M in Hong-Kong and Shanghai by 1844 in Keswick chronologies.
1846: Gov-General Australia Charles Augustus Fitzroy (1796-1858). Code-red. "vice-regal notes". thepeerage.com. He is son1. He may also have forebears in Burke's LG for Chapman formerly of Whitby? See also, Scorgie/Hudgson, table, p. 28. He is governor-general Australia Aug 1846 to Jan 1855, and therefore oversees the first gold rush period. This man on 2 January, 1851 is apptd gov-general of all the Austn colonies. Clark, chapter on Tethering Bush to World, p. 454, dr of Fitzroy is Mrs Keith Stewart. His own ADB entry.
1851: Goldbuyer George Alfred Lloyd. Code-Aust. He is son1. London experience with shipping, insurance broker, arrived Sydney 1833, country storekeeper and farmer, Merchant, businessman, politician. Sydney auctioneer by 1840, general merchant and goldbuyer by 1851, director Austn Mutual Provident Society, Turon Golden Ridge Quartz Crushing Co., Sydney Gold Escort Co., NSW agent in England for 1855-1859, MLC, politician. Barnard's book on Mort. His own entry in ADB Online. He had an early partner, Ambrose Foss, an auctioneer partnership. Also tallow and hide merchant. In 1851 he became a pioneer buyer of Australian gold. In 1853 he joined the Sydney and Melbourne Steam Packet Co. He went to London from 1855 and had a company, Lloyd Beilby and Co., commercial agents for NSW Govt to 1859 went Lloyd lost on shipping ventures and went bankrupt in Sept 1859. He returned to Sydney and became general mercahnt importing wheat and flour from California and Chile. IN 1860s involved with Cardiff Coal Co. and Bulli Coal Mining Co. A Sydney director of London and Lancashire Fire and Life Assurance Co, later an agent for Cornwall Fire and Marine Insurance Co. Also bought horses for the Indian Govt. But he again bankrupted.
1853: British Army Contractor Joseph Bazier (). The name Brazder had a long history with English gunmaking. His own wikipedia page. Joseph Brazier Ltd, maker of fine sporting rifles of London and Wolverhampton. Crimean War contractor, rifles. Item from http://www.collegehillarsenal.com/shop/ listing Crimean War Eria British P-1853 Type Enfield. Contractors supplying arms included: in 1853 there were "the four old contractors" for Board of Ordnance being Thomas Turner, Holiss and Sheath, Swinburn and Son, and Tipping and Lawden. These four assembled only. Barrels came from seven Birmingham contractors, Joseph Brazier and Son, R and W Aston, and James Francis. During the Crimean War was built the Grand Crimea Central Railway to supply ammunition and provisions re Seige of Sevastopol. Also carried world's first hospital train. Railway was built by a partnerships of rail contractors led by Samuel Morton Peto, with Edward Betts and Thomas Brassey, building from Port Balaclava to troops outside Sevastopol. Trains could run within three weeks of start and and by seven weeks they had 7 miles (11 km) of track. At war's end the track was removed and sold. Britain and France declared The Crimean War on Russia on behalf of Ottoman Empire on 28 March 1854. British led by Lord Raglan. Decision to lay seige to Sevastopol held by the Russians. Supplies for Brits arrived to Port of Balaclava. French supplies went to harbour at Kamiesch. Soldiers suffered disease, frostbite and malnutrition.
1840: Alexander Brodie Spark. (1792-1856). Code-Aust. His own entry in ADB online. In London he starts work with Tod and Spencer's counting house in Lime Street Sq., p 15 on Abbot and Little is mention of John Masson. In 1817 he sails from Blackwall to Woolwich on Prince Regent, an EICo-man, in which ship his friends Ketchen and Grant have an interest. But ADB online says he came on Princess Charlotte. Cf Charles Duiguid, The Story of the Stock Exchange. London, 1901. He once gives referees at Robert Innes of Thomas Spencer and Co., No 8 Lime St Sq, merchants and James Wrand/Warrand of 51 Lime St., merchant. He begins in Sydney in George St. In 1840 he bought land in NZ and too pastoral leases in New England area,
It is in 1841 that Blackheath London registers Spark as member of Blackheath Golf Club and toasts his newborn. Spark was evidently in Sydney in 1841, but he did have a son Alexander born on 30 April, and some days later be buys 9/64ths of the ship Bussorah Merchant Capt Ferrier, thence to Singapore; (Bateson's lists in Convict Ships.) Spark is one of the Union Marine Assurance Co. In August 1841 he sees arrival of ship Hope from Macao with Spark's 2500 chests of tea and 80 tons of sugar, and a new correspondent, Macvicar and Co., consignment worth over £3400. (See Abbott and Little, p. 136 and previous. In 1841, the failure of Duke and Co. would lost Spark £5000. Spark's London agent is John Masson, who bankrupted. 1843: One D. Dunbar is a Blackheath Golf Club member. Is this the noted convict contractor to Australia? An 1844 member of the club is Mr. Buckle. See pp. 131ff of Richard's essay in R. A. Cage's book on Scots Abroad. Note that Alexr Brodie Spark's wife is nee Biddulph, see in 1790s as Lambert, Ross and Biddulph want to supply NSW from India and are not allowed. In trouble from 1841 he owes to Dunbar and Sons in London, Macvicar and Co of Canton (tea import), R. Campbell and A. Macleay, to Bank of Australia. Spark is variously, assoc with the 1839-formed British Colonial Bank and Loan eSociety, formed in London; he reconnioterred investment possibilities, Australian Gas Co., and with Bank of Australasia; p 113 he had an idea for a tax on convict servants, his London agent is John Masson who bankrupted in 1840s, Spark at his own death owed £6000 including to his own children, he was variously Dep-chair of Bank of Aust, magistrate, auditor for Aust Marine Assurance Co formed in 1831, a shipping agent, merchant, in 1840s he bought 9/64ths of the ship Bussorah Merchant thence Singapore which in 1830-1831 had been a convict transport for Dunbar of London. In 1827 he is Hon Sec of Ag Soc NSW, in Dec 1830 Spark is acting managing director of AACo in Sydney. By 1811 he is linked with firm Tod and Spence of London, at Lime St Square, p. 31 he is linked later with Robert Innes of Thomas Spencer and Co, at No 8 Lime St, and refs from James Warrand of No 51 Lime St, Merchant. his three nephews Gill came to Australia with him. He is a founding Member of the Australia Club. See D. E. Fifer, pp. 94ff, on Spark's links with Duncan Dunbar and also A. A. Gower and nephews, London wool brokers. Broeze on Brooks, he is linked to AA Gower in London see chron notes from Broeze on Brooks. Prentis, Scots in Aust, pp. 113ff, gold helped Spark re-establish his shattered fortune. Spark had some land, local trade, trade with India, London and VDL. The reason to dwell on A. B. Spark is that he was apparently the first Australian to penetrate the Blackheath Golf Club as a factor in business life in Australia. On general matters see Maxine Young, Admin, and she cites titles such as D. M. Young, The Colonial Office in the Early Nineteenth Century. London. 1961.; J. J. Eddy, Britain and the Australian Colonies, 1818-1831, The Technique of Government. Oxford. 1969. ; Nelson, The Home Office. J. M. Bennett, A History of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Sydney. 1974. On banking and business to about 1845 see Sylvia Morrissey's article in Griffin, pp. 86ff, by 1842 was reliance on British capital which if removed, created chaos. some NSW problems due to a British trade cycle, the local market for imported goods collapsed, in 1842 (p. 88) began a severe contraction, the Bank of Australia failed in 1843 as did the Sydney Banking Company and the Port Phillip Bank. Cf., H. Kolsen, Company Formation in NSW, 1828-1852, in Bulletin of the Business Archives Council of Australia, Vol. 1, No. 6, p. 18, as cited in Griffin, p. 107. Cf, A. Harris, Settlers and Convicts, Melbourne. 1954, cited in Griffin, ed, p. 108. Cf., F. K. Crowley, (Ph.D Thesis), Working Class Conditions in Australia 1788-1851, Univ Melb., and Cf F. K. Crowley, Australia's Western Third. London. 1960.; Cf., T. M. Perry, Australia's First Frontier. Melbourne. 1963.; J. Gregson, The Australian Agricultural Company. Sydney. 1907.; P. A. Knaplund, James Stephen and the British Colonial System, 1813-1847. Madison. 1953.; A. Barnard, The Australian Wool Market, 1840-1900. Melbourne, 1958.; A. Barnard, Visions and Profits (A
Life of T. S. Mort), Melbourne. 1961., cited in Morrissey in Griffin, p. 110.; S. J. Butlin, Australia and New Zealand Bank. London. 1961.; E. M. Curr, Recollections of Squatting in Victoria (abridged, H. W. Forster). Melbourne. 1965., cited in Morrissey in Griffin, p. 111.; B. Fitzpatrick, The British Empire in Australia. Melbourne. 1941.; E. J. Tapp, Early New Zealand. Melbourne. 1965.; H. Widonson, The Present State of Van Diemen's Land. London. 1829., cited in Morrissey, in Griffin, p. 112. On American-Australian relations see entry on Americans in Australia in Aust Encyc, L. G. Churchward, Australian-American Relations during the Gold Rush, Historical Studies, Australia and New Zealand (1942).; L. G. Churchward, Notes on American Whaling Activities in Australian Waters, 1800-1850., Historical Studies, 1949.; G. Greenwood, Early American-Australian Relations. 1944.; Werner Levi, American-Australian Relations. 1947.; G. Abbot and G. Little, (Eds), The Respectable Sydney Merchant, A. B. Spark of Tempe. Sydney. 1976. [which has now been read]. By 1846 he had recovered and was shipping copper ore to England and horses to India. Successful in gold specs from 1851.
Hoskin v. McQuoid Supreme Court of New South Wales Forbes C.J., Stephen and Dowling JJ, 18 September 1830 Source: Dowling, Proceedings of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Vol.46, Archives Office of New South Wales, 2/3229[1] Judgment[2] Dowling J. This was an action of assumpsit for money had and received by the Deft to the Plf's use, with the other money counts. Plea the general issue. At the trial before Dowling J. and two assessors during the sittings in last term, the circumstances of the case proved in evidence were these:- The Plf was a trader in Sydney, and the Deft, was Sheriff of New South Wales. The Plf had recovered a judgment at law against one Joseph Aarons for £364.14: - and on the 26th November 1829 a writ of fieri facias was [p. 2] sued out to levy the same & was delivered to the sheriff for execution. Arons was possessed of a house and premises situate at Wallis Plains, upon which there was a mortgage executed by him to Mr. Alexander Brodie Spark for the sum of 500£. On the 2.d March 1829 two writs of fieri facias had been sued out upon two judgments against Arons, one at the suit of Solomons to levy 27£.5. and the other at the suit of Spicer to levy £81.10: On the 3.d of May 1829 the Sheriff executed these writs upon Arons house & premises at Wallis Plains and endeavoured to make sale thereof subject to Mr Sparkes mortgage for 500£, but could not get any biddings beyond 400£, and thereupon he returned both writs nulla bonâ. Solomens & Spicer had caused their judgments to be entered up & regularly docketed in due time. Hoskin's judgment was entered up on the 10.th April 1829. Beside the writ of fie fa. sued out at the suit of Hoskins two other like writs at the suit of Pittman & Campbell respectively were lodged with the Sheriff on the same 25th November 1829, one to levy £154..18s..3d & the other, the sum of £105.5.3. Under Hoskins, Pittman & Campbells writs the Sheriff [p. 3] seized and sold Arons house & premises at Wallis plains. In consequence of an extraordinary & unexpected rivalry in the biddings at the sale, the same property for which there could not be a greater bidding obtained than 400£ in the month of May preceding, was sold at the price of 1150£. Finding that the proceeds of the sale were so large the attorney for Solomons & Spicer, who attended the sale, insisted that the executions at the suit of his clients, should be satisfied before Hoskins execution, they having priority in point of time, notwithstanding their writs had been in May preceding returned nulla bonâ, and had not been renewed. On the other hand Hoskins attorney resisted this claim, but the sheriff having received an indemnity for Solomons & Spicer disposed of the proceeds of the sale as follows:- £581.2.10 to discharge Sparkes mortgage and interest due thereon, £154.18.3 to satisfy Pittman's execution, £105.5.3 to satisfy Campbell's; £87.10 to satisfy Spicers'; £27.5. to satisfy Solomons, & £161.19.9 in part satisfaction of Hoskins. The present action was brought by Hoskins to recover £114,,15, being the amount of the two sums of £87.10,, & £27,,5,,- paid over by the Sheriff to Solomons & Spicer [p. 4] respectively in satisfaction of their executions sued out in the previous month of May. Hoskins writ of execution had been returned ``Levied £169.19.9," & nulla bona as to the reside of his judgment. Hoskins had given the sheriff a receipt for £169..19.9 ``on account", and notified to the Sheriff that he should bring an action for the £114.15 paid over the Solomons & Spicer. At the trial three points were made by the counsel for the Deft 1.st That the property seized and sold by the Sheriff being only an equitable estate, it was not liable to an execution at law as legal assets of Arons; 2.d That Hoskins being aware how the proceeds of the sale were disposed of, & having received part of the money, & given an acknowledgment for such part he was concluded & estopped from ripping up the transaction; & third, that the previous judgments at the suit of Spicer & Solomons respectively bound the property of Arons, notwithstanding their writs had been returned nulla bona in May 1829, and had not been renewed. With respect to the first point the Judge directed the assessors that as the sheriff had actually seized & sold the property as legal assets & had in fact paid over the money, the objection could not now avail him whatever doubt there might have been upon that point under other circumstances. The Mortgagee had acquiesced in the sale, & his claim had been discharged, and all parties had acquiesced in this mode of disposing of Arons interest, whatever it might be, in the property. As to the second objection, he ruled that as Hoskins had reced[3] part of the money expressly ``on account," & under protest, he was not estopped from maintaining an action against the Sheriff for the £114,,5 if the Sheriff was not justified in paying that money over to Solomons & Spicer; & with respect to the last objection he held that as the sheriff had returned the prior writs at the suit of Solomons and Spicer, nulla bonâ, & as those writs had not been kept alive, the Sheriff had no legal authority for retaining & paying over the proceeds of the sale in November 1829 to the prejudice of Hoskins execution under & by virtue of which he had actually levied. On a former day in this term a motion was made for a new trial on the ground that the judgments of Solomons & Spicer entered up and docketed previously to the Judgment whereon Hoskins the present plf issued his writ of execu[p. 6] tion was a charge upon & bound the freehold property taken in execution under such writ, and consequently that Solomons & Spicer's judgments ought to have been first satisfied. This proposition was not insisted upon at much length indeed scarcely more that stated, whether from its being thought untenable, or from the learned counsel who argued it, not having come prepared for it, we cannot venture to say; but, as I believe, this is the first time, in which this question has been raised for consideration in this Court, the Court was anxious to look a little into it, before they gave judgment on the motion for a new trial. There was no distinct proof at the trial, as to the nature of Arons interestin the property in question, but assuming that it was freehold, the question was now raised must I apprehend be determined with reference to the light in which freehold or real property is regarded by law in this Colony as to its liability to the [p. 7] satisfaction & discharge of debts. By statute 54. G. 4. c.15[4] ``An act for the more easy recovery of debts in his Majesty's Colony of New South Wales," real estates are made personal estates to all intents & purposes for the satisfaction all just debts. By the 4th section of that statute it is enacted that ``the houses, lands, and other hereditaments & real estates, situate or being within the said Colony of New South Wales or its dependencies belonging t o any person indebted,shall be liable to & chargeable with al just debts, duties & demands of what nature or kind soever, owing by any such persons to H.M. or any of his subjects, & shall & may be assets for the satisfaction thereof, in like manner as real estates are by the law of England liable to the satisfaction of debts due by bond or other speciality, & shall be subject to the like remedies, proceedings & process, in any Court of Law or Equity in the said Colony of New South Wales or its dependencies, for seizing, extending, selling or disposing of any such houses, lands, & other hereditaments & real estates, towards the satisfaction of such debts, duties & demands, and in like manner as personal estates in the said Colony are seized, extended,sold [p. 8] or disposed of for the satisfaction of debts." If then the effect of this statute be to place real estates precisely on the same footing with personal estates for the satisfaction of debts, it seems to me that the question whether this property was bound by Solomons & Spicers judgments, cannot arise, & that we must regard this as the ordinary case of a judgment & execution against personal goods & chattels strictly so called, in which case it is quite clear that such property would not be bound unless execution be execution. Admitting that execution actually executed would bind this as personal property, then remains the question whether Aarons at the time the executions at the suit of Solomons & Spicer were taken out, had in fact any property which could be bound. It was proved in evidence that the Sheriff levied under the writs of fi. fa. at their suit in the month of May 1829 - that he used ordinary diligence to get the highest price for it he could, but that he could obtain no bidding beyond 400£. which was not sufficient to discharge Sparke's prior incumbrance of 500£; & thereupon he returned nulla bona. The truth of that return was not disputed by Solomons or Spicer - they acquiesced in it, and allowed [p. 9 ] their writs to expire. Indeed I do not see how the Sheriff could well make any other return. The value of property for this purpose is what it will fetch, & if the Sheriff could not obtain a price beyond rhe mortgage incumbrance, then it appears to me that he was well warranted in returning the nulla bonâ. Then does the accidental circumstance of this same property (afterwards taken in execution at the suit of Campbell, Pittman & Hoskins), having realized a very large
amount, make any difference? I apprehend it does not. The increased amount was an accidental contingency over which the Sheriff had no control, & as it respected Solomons & Spicers execution must be regarded in the light of other & different effects acquired by Arons subsequent to their judgments, & consequently could not be bound by their executions. If this same property could not in May produce even enough to satisfy Sparke's mortgage, then it is true that Arons had not at that time any goods & chattels whereof to levy & make sale in discharge of their judgments, & they were bound by the Sheriff's return. The writs at their suit had then expired [p. 10] & the Sheriff could not be justified in retaking the property for their benefit without an alias writ. They had omitted to renew or keep alive their writs, & their laches ought not in my opinion to prejudice Hoskins who is with them an equally meritorious creditor. In the above case, Forbes C J delivered his opinion first in point of order. He was of opinion that there ought not to be a new trial granted. If lands were to be regarded as goods by operation of the Statute 54.G. 3 then there was an end of the question. 1 T. Pr. 731. Rybut v Peckham. He entertained doubts however upon the point, but in this case as justice had been done, he was not inclined to disturb the verdict. He thought there ought to be a declaratory law upon the subject to remove the doubt, whether judgments did not bind land notwithstanding the 54 G. 3 Stephen J. thought the verdict right. Rule refused. Notes: [1] For a record of the trial, see Dowling, Select Cases, Vol. 2, Archives Office of New South Wales, 2/3462, p. 324; and Dowling, Proceedings of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Vol. 39, Archives Office of New South Wales, 2/3222. The Select Cases commenced with the following: "Where the Sheriff returned nullâ bonâ to a writ of fi fa against A who had mortgaged property but not more than of sufficient value than to cover the amount of the mortgage and at a subsequent period another creditor B. took out Execution against the same property which realized surplus issues to cover his execution and [p. 325] the mortgage and the Sheriff instead of paying over the money under that execution, paid it to the prior execution creditors to whose writ he had returned nulla bonâ. Held that he was liable in money had and received to the subsequent execution creditor." The Proceedings included the following Precis at p. 41: "In June 1829, writs of fi. fa. ats of Spicer & Solomons issued against the effects of Aarons, and were returned nulla bonâ, the deft having property upon which there was a mortgage, & no bidding could be obtained beyond the amount of the mortgage money. - In Nov. same year Hoskins took out execution, & the sheriff seized the same property & in consequence of a rivalry in bidding the estate brought a large surplus beyond the mortgage money & the sheriff instead of satisfying Hoskin's execution, paid the money to Spicer and Solomons on their writs which had been previously returned nulla bonâ & had not been renewed. Held that the sheriff was liable for money had & received toHoskins use." The sheriff was also a party in Lord v. McQuoid, Dowling, Select Cases, Vol. 2, Archives Office of New South Wales, 2/3462, p. 317 (1830), which Dowling J. summarised as follows: "Where the Sheriff nominated the Assessors to try a cause in which he was himself a party Held sufficient for a new trial." [2] Marginal note in manuscript: " See Ante vol. 39 p. 41." [3] received [4] This is incorrect. The Act was passed in 54 Geo. 3, as the judgment of Forbes C.J. below shows. George IV was not on the throne as long as his father, George III.
On Archibald Boyd? Thought on a Boyd genforum item to be a Director of the Provisionally registered Union Bank of London. in 1856 according to a notice in a London newspaper Daily News 16 Feb 1856. Is he the brother of Ben Boyd died in the Pacific?
1812: Army contractor banker John Maberley (1770-1845). In the early 1790s teamed with the Hornblower family to develop steam engines in competition with Watt then moved into a cheaper method of waterproofing army greatcoats. John Maberley. Army contractor. Of Shirley House. Newest Oxford DNB entry for Sir Fredk William Adam (1784-1853). GEC, Peerage, Grafton, p. 51. From thepeerage.com. See Clive Emsley, on British Society and French Wars. p. 150, this man a noted army contractor, willing to join anti-corruption forces against other army contractors. He eg., supplied army greatcoats during War of 1812. Had premises in London and Aberdeen. Bought Shirley Manor in Croydon. Tried and failed after 1818 or so to introduce British banking techniques (Exchange and Deposit banks) into Scotland, bankrupted in 1832 and repaired to France. See Peter Symes, "The Exchange and Deposit Banks of John Maberly", International Bank Note Society Journal, Vol. 37, No. 3, 1998. He has a nephew, Stephen Maberly, an associate of John Baker Richards, a Director of Bank of England. Dealt with London bankers, Masterman and Co. See other links given in David Alston spanglefish website on Slaves and Highlanders. See http://www.maberly.name/biographies.htm. He is child2 of six. stirnet file4 on Smith.
A list (Updated February 2012-December 2017) of names being notable residents of Blackheath, London, from 1760++ (alphabetical not chronological). Blackheath here may as well be regarded as something like a Stockbroker Belt):
slaver Francis Abbatt active 1776, alleged founder of Blackheath Golf Club.
Calcutta merchant (possibly) Henry Alexius Abbot (1764-1819) and/or his son General Sir James Abbot Bengal Artillery (1807-1896) of The Paragon, Blackheath.
Benjamin Aislabie of Lee Place Kent, (1774-1842 wine merchant supplying Horatio Nelson, partner with William Eade) son of contractor Rawson Aislabie (1732-1806).
RN Captain Charles Allen (born Blackheath 1779), a Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital and see re his father William Allen of the Stamp Office.
Lloyd´s underwriter John Julius Angerstein, notable figure at Lloyd´s of London, resided on the border of Greenwich/Blackheath, had a Norfolk Pine in his backyard, a souvenir of Australasia.
General India George Elliot Ashburner active 1821.
Banker Francis Baring (d.1810) once of Lee, Lewisham, near Blackheath.
Whaler and convict contractor Daniel Bennett (d.1826) and son William (d. 1844.
Samuel Bicknell (1723-1811 died at Blackheath) kept Senegal and African Coffee House in Cornhill, later a trader in spirits, retired to Morden College Blackheath.
John St Barbe, whaling investor, Lloyd´s Underwriter, noting that there remains much to find (and little on the Net) on his partners William Bignell [who might have married one Catharine St Barbe?] and Green.
NSW Commissioner John Thomas Bigge (see Hazel King, Colonial Expatriates saying Bigge had a house at Blackheath) wrote his report on NSW when staying at the Enderby house at Blackheath.
William Bligh doubtless knew much of Duncan Campbell at Blackheath, as Bligh´s wife was friends with Campbell´s second wife Mary Mumford.
Blackheath about 1786 and later: Isabella Susanna Boyd (died 1876 Blackheath) daughter of banker Walter Boyd (1753-1837 who had died ruined, of Boyd Benfield and Company which did secret service work.
Nathaniel Brassey (1752-1798 died Blackheath) son of Lombard Street banker Nathaniel Brassey.
Charles John Brome of Blackheath married Cecilia Bythesea daughter of William Bythesea of Blackheath.
Shipbuilder Peter Bronsden of Blackheath.
UK historian Henry Thomas Buckle (died 1862 lived sometime at Blackheath) was a relative of John William Buckle (who married Sarah Boyd) of Hither Green near Blackheath of the convict contractor firm Buckle, Buckle, Bagster and Buchanan.
Charles James Busk of Cape Town was also of Blackheath.
Oil cooper Charles Buxton was of Croom Hill Blackheath, and had a descendant Charles Buxton who married Mary Enderby (1757-1829) of the Blackheath family (not forgetting that General Gordon of Khartoum came from a family connected to the Enderbys).
Duncan Campbell (1726-1803) hulks overseer. was of Blackheath. (See Dan Byrnes' website, The Blackheath Connection. )
Denmark merchant, Thomas Chapman (1766-1844) lived at Blackheath, was of the Chapman family of convict contractors.
Edward Collingwood of Blackheath had a daughter Julia Grieve Collingwood who in 1878 married Henry Stinton Smith of Sydney, son of NSW MLA and banker Henry Gilbert Smith.
Susannah Collingwood (1748-1818) daughter of an Edward married Thomas Larkins of the Blackheath Larkins, and she had a grandmother Mary Bigge daughter of William Bigge, but these Collingwoods are not necessarily of the noted Collingwood naval family.
Sir James Creed of Blackheath (had a white lead works, that is paint factory and an EICo director) died 1762, was married to a Hankey of the banker Hankeys family.
James Beveridge Duncan of Blackheath had a daughter Elizabeth 1791-1865) born at Blackheath who married Warwick Gerard Lake third Viscount of Delhi and Laswari.
There are some Elliotts of Blackheath.
Samuel Enderby Snr. the whaler (died 1797).
One-time Governor Newfoundland Edward Falkingham was of Crooms Hill Blackheath.
General Sir Bart Anthony Farrington (d 1823) married Elizabeth Colden an American (Loyalist) who was vaguely related to Henry Colden Antill (later of Picton NSW), Henry being a distant relative of both the Campbell and Bligh families.
Major-General John Field CB (nd) of Blackheath is noted in Mowle´s [NSW] Genealogy for Cox since his son married a Cox.
Simon Fraser (d.1807/1810) an EICo director was of Blackheath.
Joseph Fletcher Green of RH Green shipping firm died 1923 was of Blackheath, Greens as connected with the Australia trade.
Glyn´s banker Thomas II Hallifax (d.1850) son of a banker Lord Mayor of London was of Blackheath.
Sir Andrew Snape Hammond (d.1828) had a shipowner father Robert of Blackheath.
Of the bankers Hankey, John Alers Hankey (1803-1872) a partner in the bank was of Blackheath and he had a brother who emigrated to South Australia. Richard Hulse (1727-1805 unmarried) of Hudson´s Bay Co. was of Blackheath.
William Innes (1719-1795) MP and slaver was of Blackheath, there is a much-reproduced painting of him in golfing clothes re Blackheath Golf Club.
Ship insurance agent Herbert Goddard Jones of Blackheath married Harriett Cattley of the Cattleys who had a strong family presence at Lloyd´s of London.
London shipbroker John Kettlewell was of Blackheath (his mother was a Cattley), married Margaret Mason Sutherland, daughter of a Colonial Broker of Mincing Lane, Charles Sutherland.
Thomas King of the slaving firm Camden Calvert and King was of Blackheath.
Larkins (a family in service of EICo maybe split into 2-3 branches all with EICo service), are still mysterious. One William Larkins was a senior accountant for Warren Hastings/East India Co. in India, information on his life tends to be chewed up in the nonsense-ways the Warren Hastings impeachment/trial has been written-up across the centuries).
Francis Lucas of Blackheath had a daughter Sarah married to the Tooth family of NSW who had begun as Kent hop merchants.
Father (a wharfinger) and son Knill, both Lords Mayor of London, were of Blackheath, and are said to have occupied the former Enderby home just down from St Barbe´s old place (both houses still standing, the Enderby home is now a reception house for weddings, etc, and with a website).
George Marsh (1722-1800) an official at Chatam Docks and of Blackheath had a son William a banker/army agent.
Economist/Philosopher John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) was of Blackheath.
Captain Alexander Strachan Molison died 1878 who sailed ships for convict contractor Duncan Dunbar II (as his brother James did) wrote his Will when at Morant Cottage Blackheath Road Greenwich,and James Molison (1816-1869) married Isabella Anne Forsyth daughter of convict contractor Osbert Forsyth (died 1853).
Alderman George M. Macaulay of Blackheath, quite near St Barbe and Enderby, we must note that dangerously too little is known of Macaulay´s partners Turnbull and Gregory, and re Turnbull, least of all.
Sir Gregory Page (1685-1775) of what is now Blackheath Park, said to have been an English Medici, very wealthy, East India Company director and son of an EICO director.
John Penn (1770-1843), engineer and millwright, and his son, had a works for making mills for corn and flour at junction of Blackheath and Lewisham roads.
John Kirkby Picard, from Hull, partner with Joshua Haworth Jnr of Hull – into paint (white lead) manufacturing. Joshua had married one of the Larkins girls from Blackheath, and Picard and Haworth moved to London. It is possible that they had some links to the Enderby whalers, or Enderby associates, as paint in those days had whale product as one ingredient.
Scott and Pringle of Threadneedle Street London. Links with John Pringle MP (died 1792), Robert Scott of Blackheath and a John Scott. Scott, Pringle , Cheap and Co. of Madeira are on the list of pre-1775 correspondents of Willing and (Robert) Morris (the financier of the American Revolution).
Commissioner of Excise Henry Reveley (1737-1798) of Blackheath, married Jane Champion de Crespigny, their daughter Henrietta Reveley married Admiral Matthew II Buckle (1770-1855).
London Lord Mayor Thomas Sainsbury (1730-1795) had a house at Blackheath.
Baron3 Gardner, Alan (1810 born Blackheath-1883) (Legge) Gardner was a Lord of The Royal Bedchamber.
EICo surveyor of shipping Gabriel Snodgrass lived at Blackheath.
John St Barbe was of Blackheath - see elsewhere here.
Thomas Stokes an investor in the Australian Agricultural Company (according to Pennie Pemberton), was of Blackheath, and possibly connected to other Stokes who also were investors in the AACo.
The grandfather of the writer Lytton Strachey, Edward Strachey (1774-1832) was of Shooters Hill, Blackheath and of the Bengal Establishment.
Rear-Admiral Samuel Thornton (b 1797) was of Blackheath Park, son of MP, Russia Company Merchant and Director of EICo Samuel Thornton (1754-1838) who was son of Clapham Sect (abolitionist) Russia Company merchant John Thornton (1720-1790).
The old Enderby house at Blackheath between 1844 and 1850 was occupied by Australian Agricultural Company investor, banker (a family bank), tea man, Richard II Twining (1772-1857).
William Walton (1805-1884 died Blackheath) was son of Captain Francis Walton (1758-1839) of the ship Friendship in the First Fleet, later dockmaster of London Docks.
Abraham Wells (?) of the shipbuilding family was of Blackheath.
Sydney convict Darcy Wentworth (1762-1827) as a highwayman once held up alderman William Curtis at Blackheath (see p. 12 of Ritchie on Wentworths).
An aunt of William Wilberforce the Abolitionist, once rented an address at Blackheath; this was possibly Judith W. married to silk merchant John Bird, it is uncertain here.
1823; Samuel Marshall
1822: Imperial Insurance Co. is established to insure Life and Fire, but included fire risks for shipping in its published materials.
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1789: A lawyer named James A. Park becomes the first to begin to write on insurance matters in England. Prior to this there is little material published in England on insurance.
1770s: In England, Lord Mansfield more or less begins English Commercial Law/Insurance Law with his judgements.