P_10433_2079 – Brearcliffe Stonehewer
London merchant (d. 1752), co-owner of a slaving voyage from London by the Friendship to Africa and Jamaica in 1736 (given as ‘Bearcliffe Honebewer’), and probably the owner of an earlier voyage leaving London in 1733 by the Sarah. He was a Director of the Royal Exchange Assurance. He left land in Westminster (identified in his daughter Elizabeth Stanynought’s will proved in 1806 as Tothill Street and Long Ditch ‘now called Princes Street’).
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First name: Brearcliffe
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Last name: Stonehewer
Aliases: Honebewer, Bearcliffe
Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Social background: Trade
Primary outcome: Trade
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William Stonehewer
Father
William Stonehewer, Citizen and Weaver, was shown as the father of Brearcliffe Stonehewer in the latter's admission by redemption to the Skinners' Company in 1722.
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Internal migrant: No
Foreign born: No
Supplier to slave trade voyages: Don't know
Creditor to slave trade voyages: Don't know
Philanthropy: Don't know
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Sources: PROB 11/798/352 NB voyage no. 76827 (London - Africa -Americas 1733-35, no owner shown in TASTDB) of the Sarah is subject of a record connecting the voyage and its captain John Smith to Stonehewer, ADM 106/866/179 Description: John Smith, Sarah, at Annamaboe to Mr. Brearcliffe, stonehewer [sic], Wood Street, London. Asks for payment for the Junek given to the Sarah by order of Captain Timothy Bridge, the Antelope. Date: 1735 Nov 4; ADM 106/866/180 Description. John Smith, the Sarah, at St Thomas' to Mr. Brearcliffe, stonehewer [sic] of Wood Street, London. Asks him to pay for the replacement cablet hawser delivered to the Sarah by Captain Richard Herbert, the Diamond, to replace the one condemned. Has sent three bills, two of which have been settled. Date: 1735 Mar 20.
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Organisations (2)
Bridewell Hospital
Role: Committee Member
Royal Exchange Assurance
Role: Director
Crossings (2)
Birth
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Death
Date: 1752
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Burial
Date: 15/12/1752
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Livery company affiliations
The Worshipful Company of Skinners
Role: Freeman
Start Date: 11/12/1722
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
Will
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Courts: PCC
Will of Brearcliffe Stonehewer merchant of London made 04/01/1748. He instructed he be buried at St Michael Bassishaw. He left 20 guineas to his book-keeper Mr John Steel and £10 to his servant Mary Fallowes if still in his service. He left his real estate in Westminster in trust to be sold for his two daughters Elizabeth and Catherine, the former at 21: he made them his residuary legatees and Catherine, Robert Pycroft and Francis Ellis his executors.
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