Ambrose Crowley
D.O.B: 1718
D.O.D: 1754
Neither Ambrose Crowley (1718-1754), a scion of the ironmaking family, nor any family member, appears in the TASTDB, but the will of Robert Clarke master of the Crowley pink (which made 8 slaving voyages from London between 1730 and 1738, and is given as the Crawley in TASTDB) identifies Ambrose Crowley as his master in 1741. Ambrose Crowley himself was too young (he came of age in 1739) to have been the owner of the slaving voyages, which must therefore have been owned by the firm run by his mother Theodosia, whom he predeceased. Theodosia Crowley (q.v.) is already well-known for her entrepreneurship, and as a supplier of iron goods including chains and manacles to the slave-trade.
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London
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PROB 11/716/392, will of Robert Clarke.
PROB 11/808/424 will of Ambrose Crowley of Barking Suffolk.
ADM 106/786/8 Description: Folio 8: John Crowley, London. Is launching a new ship at Blackwall, offers to carry naval stores to Jamaica. Date: 1727 Jan 20.
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1718
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1754
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Barking Hall, Barking, Suffolk
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Will
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Will of Ambrose Crowley of Barking Hall, Barking Suffolk made 10/02/1753. He left his mother Theodosia £5000 and his sisters Theodosia and Elizabeth £1000 each. He left his lands in England except those in Suffolk to his brother John; his Suffolk lands to his sisters Theodosia and Elizabeth; and his residual estate, after further legacies of some £6000 including £5000 to William Varey (?) and annuities of £580 p.a., also to his brother John.
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