P_10433_0487 – Edward Searle
Born: Unknown
Died: 1744
Major early London slave-trader with co-ownership in 25 voyages between 1700 and 1712, many destined for Jamaica, with various partners including Houlditch and Brooke and Richard Harris. Edward Searle was shown as the chief of the Charles Fort in Annamaboe in the 1690s, before becoming an independent slave-trader. Searle has been inferred to have been Edward Searle who built Lockleys, at Welwyn Herts. and who died c. 1744.
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First name: Edward
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Last name: Searle
Aliases: Seaarle, Edward
Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Primary outcome: Gentry
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Relations
Bridgett Gardiner
Spouse (married 22/10/1700)
Married at St Martin Outwich, when both were given as of St Peter Cornhill
Political Offices Held
Local
Sheriff of Hertfordshire 1729 although replaced by John Turvin
Bankruptcies
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Geographic experiences
Africa
Internal migrant: Don't know
Foreign born: Don't know
Supplier to slave trade voyages: Don't know
Creditor to slave trade voyages: Don't know
Philanthropy: Don't know
Plantation owner: Don't know
Sources: E.g. Report from Edward Searle, 12 September 1695, in Robin Law, ed., The English in West Africa, 1691–1699: The Local Correspondence of the Royal African Company of England, 1681–1699, Part 3, New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, 541 C 8/466/98. PROB 11/733/12 and C 11/1908/6 (1723). Edward Searle of Lockleys Welwyn was described as 'a Turkey merchant' in local histories. However Edward Searle was shown as chief of Charles Fort, Annamaboe in the 1690s, and was in correspondence with Edward Manning in Jamaica in the 1730s. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146660807
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Crossings (25)
24311 - Katherine Bonadventure (1700 - 1700)
Role: Owner
24065 - New Fanteen Galley (1712 - 1712)
Role: Owner
24063 - John Gally (1711 - 1711)
Role: Owner
21361 - Katherine Bonadventure (1702 - 1703)
Role: Owner
21351 - Catherine Bonadventure (1704 - 1705)
Role: Owner
21180 - Marlborough (1704 - 1705)
Role: Owner
21161 - Tiger (1703 - 1704)
Role: Owner
20936 - Joseph (1705 - 1706)
Role: Owner
20932 - Tiger (1705 - 1706)
Role: Owner
20890 - Greswold (1706 - 1706)
Role: Owner
20802 - Fanteen Gally (1708 - 1708)
Role: Owner
20797 - Greswold Gally (1708 - 1708)
Role: Owner
20791 - Samuel and Elizabeth (1707 - 1707)
Role: Owner
20785 - Martin Gally (1707 - 1708)
Role: Owner
20783 - Raper Gally (1707 - 1707)
Role: Owner
20328 - Joseph Gally (1704 - 1705)
Role: Owner
20321 - Queen (1704 - 1704)
Role: Owner
20230 - Bridgett and Sarah (1700 - 1701)
Role: Owner
15229 - Fanteen Gally (1710 - 1711)
Role: Owner
15205 - Three Crownes (1709 - 1710)
Role: Owner
15200 - Greswold Gally (1709 - 1710)
Role: Owner
15193 - Martin Gally (1709 - 1710)
Role: Owner
15188 - Fanteen Gally (1709 - 1710)
Role: Owner
15185 - Dorothea (1709 - 1710)
Role: Owner
15181 - Little London (1709 - 1709)
Role: Owner
Birth
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Death
Date: 1744
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Burial
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Schools
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Inns of Court
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Military training
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Imperial positions
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Apprenticeships
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Livery company affiliations
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Other business activities
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
Will
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Courts: PCC
The will of Edward Searle of Lockleys, Welwyn Herts. was made 27/08/1743. He left: £6500 to his daughter Elizabeth together with £500 of hers that he had in hand, and £100 for mourning; £10 each for mourning to a dozen or so friends and relations, including Edward Manning; his real estate at Lockleys and elsewhere in trust for his daughter Katherine Serle [sic] wife of Richard Serle of Winchester for life and then to her male heirs, failing whom to Elizabeth Searle. He made Katherine Serle his residuary heir and his two daughters his executrixes.
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Physical Imprints
Building Category: Rural
Type: Built
Town/City: Welwyn (Hertfordshire)
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Year: 1717
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Lockleys, Welwyn. 'A fine brick house of 1717 built by Edward Searle, a Turkey merchant, now part of Sherrardswood School.' Nikolaus Pevsner and Bridget Cherry, Hertfordshire, p. 395.
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