P_10433_0449 – Thomas Coalthurst
Co-owner of 9 voyages (in five of which Anthony Tourney (q.v.) was also a co-owner) from London between 1702 and 1712. RAC Director and shareholder as well as independent slave-trader. No will has been found to date, probably because of the bankruptcy shown by 1730, with signs of financial distress as early as 1722.
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First name: Thomas
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Last name: Coalthurst
Aliases: Coulthurst, Thomas
Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Relations
Mary Branglin widow (d. 1717)
Spouse (married 19/02/1697)
Thomas Coalthurst's wife Mary was buried at St Dunstan and All Saints Stepney 03/03/1717.
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Supplier to slave trade voyages: Don't know
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Plantation owner: Don't know
Sources: Pettigrew p. 75 https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vols43-4/pp61-77 C 11/2426/38. C 11/661/12 shows litigation by a creditor of Thomas Coalthurst of Poplar in 1722.
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Crossings (9)
21407 - Adventure (1705 - 1705)
Role: Owner
21230 - Neptune (1705 - 1706)
Role: Owner
20895 - Adventure (1706 - 1707)
Role: Owner
20794 - Mary (1707 - 1708)
Role: Owner
15147 - Champion (1703 - 1704)
Role: Owner
15185 - Dorothea (1709 - 1710)
Role: Owner
20417 - Sarah Gally (1712 - 1712)
Role: Owner
20552 - Adventure (1709 - 1709)
Role: Owner
21224 - Mary (1701 - 1702)
Role: Owner
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
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Physical Imprints
Building Category: Urban
Type: Built
Town/City: London (Middlesex)
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Year: 1715
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Thomas Coalthurst built an 'imposing' group of houses at what is now 119-123 Poplar High Street c. 1715. Coalthurst's houses were demolished in 1852, after serving as home of the Poplar House Academy c. 1818. 'Poplar High Street: North side', in Survey of London: Volumes 43 and 44, Poplar, Blackwall and Isle of Dogs, ed. Hermione Hobhouse (London, 1994), pp. 61-77. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vols43-4/pp61-77 [accessed 27 September 2022].
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