P_10433_2555 – Ansley
Owner with unnamed others of a single slaving voyage of the Providence from London to Goree in 1780, with captive Africans reportedly embarked but nothing further known of the voyage. Given as Ansley but appearing as ‘Ainsly & C.’ in Lloyd’s Register 1781. Possibly John Ansley, a merchant and linen-draper of Bread Street, whose will was proved in 1795 and who had been in partnership with John Harrison and then with Gilbert Harrison and George Bainbridge.
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Last name: Ansley
Aliases: Ansley, John?
Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Sources: PROB 11/1261/200 John Ansley, merchant of Bread Street, whose will was proved 05/06/1795 (PROB 11/1261/200) was the father of John Ansley (1774-1845) who was Lord Mayor of London 1807-8 (and probably the merchant of Bread Street bankrupt in 21/03/1826 B3/106). The will of the older John Ansley describes himself as undertaking 'considerable mercantile concerns' with George Bainbridge and Thomas Gould. The three men were identified as linen-drapers in a 1790 insurance document, LMA MS 11936/375/577775. George Bainbridge of 45 Bread Street has an entry in LBS, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/2571, and was in possession of two estates and the enslaved people associated with them in Jamaica at the time of his death c. 1827. A Chancery suit of Ansley v Bainbridge ran 1792-1812 involving in part the account current of Ph. Ph. Livingston, a slave-owner in Jamaica, with Harrison, Ansley and Bainbridge, C 101/6748 (and in part the debts of John Bainbridge, George Bainbridge's son, to the partnership, Dunlap, Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Chancery, Vol. V (1844) p. 660). The will of John Ansley's partner John Harrison of Bread Street proved 02/11/1781 showed very substantial legacies, including £40,000 to his natural son and £5000 to John Ansley.
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77865 - Providence (1780 - 1780)
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