P_10433_0939 – Roger Gathorne
Roger Gathorne (also given as Gawthorne and Garthorne. d. c. 1747), co-owner of five slaving voyages from London and of another slaving voyage from Jamaica to Africa between 1700 and 1704. He was bankrupt in 1712, despite which he made a will in 1738.
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First name: Roger
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Last name: Gawthorne
Aliases: Gawthorne, Garthorne, Roger, Garthorne
Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Relations
Elizabeth Buckworth
Spouse (married 01/01/1723)
Mary St George
Spouse (married 09/07/1734)
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Internal migrant: Don't know
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Supplier to slave trade voyages: Don't know
Creditor to slave trade voyages: Don't know
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Plantation owner: Don't know
Sources: A 1713 Poll Book shows him as a member of the Fishmongers Company https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FDeLsDpT888C&pg=PA12-IA4&lpg=PA12-IA4&dq=%22roger+gawthorne%22&source=bl&ots=aN01fOlPQF&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjPkv7W7JjvAhVMPcAKHZCAA9QQ6AEwAHoECAIQAw#v=onepage&q=%22roger%20gawthorne%22&f=false LondonGazette 3 March 1712Issue:5100Page:2 and 19 April 1743Issue:8216Page:5 PROB 11/753/531
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Crossings (6)
24244 - Mary (1700 - 1700)
Role: Owner
24161 - George (1703 - 1703)
Role: Owner
21225 - Codrington (1703 - 1704)
Role: Owner
21148 - Thomas Frigott (1703 - 1704)
Role: Owner
20321 - Queen (1704 - 1704)
Role: Owner
24322 - Queen (1704 - 1704)
Role: Owner
Birth
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Death
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Burial
Date: 27/04/1747
Location: London (Middlesex)
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Livery company affiliations
The Worshipful Company of Fishmongers
Role: Freeman
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
Will
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Will of Roger Gathorne of St George Hanover Square made 29/09/1738. He left all his priory including one share in the Sun Fire Office, notes for money and other lent and the surplus of a property in Heck in Yorkshire, mortgaged for £870 and producing about £62 p.a., when the mortgage was paid off to his wife Mary Gathorne, sole executrix.
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