P_10433_1361 – Ebenezer Gatton
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Ebenezer Gatton (c. 1665-1703), grocer of Southwark, co-owner of a slaving voyage from London by the Beckford to Madagascar and the Caribbean in 1698, alongside others including Bartholomew Gracedieu (q.v.), his brother-in-law.
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First name: Ebenezer
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Last name: Gatton
Aliases: Eben Gatton
Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Relations
Eleanor or Elinor Thornhill
Spouse (married 18/06/1689)
Marriage at Canterbury, Kent.
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Sources: PROB 11/472/9 C 6/376/65 Beckford v Clerke, in which Ebenezer Gatton, grocer of Southwark Surrey was a plaintiff alongside George Beckford and William Beckford and others in a suit over mortgages and a marriage settlement arising from the estate of Sir George Clerke, alderman of London.
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Crossings (1)
25684 - Beckford (1698 - 1699)
Role: Owner
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Burial
Date: 16/09/1703
Location: Camberwell (Surrey)
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Peckham (Surrey)
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
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Town/City: Peckham (Surrey)
Courts: PCC
Will of Eben. Gatton of Peckham Surrey made 15/08/1703. He left the rents on his houses in Kent Street to his wife for life and then to his daughters Frances, Sarah and Elianor [sic], and in case of their deaths to his son Thos. Gatton. He left to his wife the annuity of £30 p.a. that he received of his sister Sarah Major 'out of her benefit ticket in the Million Lottery' for its remaining life, and his lease on a house in Southwark, together with his residual estate. He made his father Thomas Gatton (failing whom his 'brother' Sir Bartholomew Gracedieu) guardian of his son, and his wife guardian of his daughters.
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