P_10433_2705 – Burnell
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‘Burnell’ and unnamed others were shown in the TASTDB as the owner of a voyage by the Unanimity from London to Africa and Jamaica in 1775, initially carrying 214 captive Africans. Two earlier voyages by the same ship with the same captain to Anomabu and Jamaica in 1772 and 1773 probably had the same ownership. The will of Nicholas Burnell, a London West India merchant and shipowner, was proved 1774, which appears to exclude him, but Lloyd’s Register 1776 shows Burnell & Co. as the owner[s], raising the possibility that the partnership outlived the death of the senior partner. Nicholas Burnell had been captain and co-owner of the Augustus Caesar with the London West India merchant George Chandler in the late 1750s, later becoming the owner of another West Indiaman named the Rose in the second half of the 1760s.
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It seems unlikely that 'Burnell' was a mistranscription for Burrell or Burnett. A John Burnell was Lord Mayor c. 1788; An Edward Burnell ironmonger and American merchant was bankrupt 1778 LG 6 June 1778Issue:11881Page:8. The will of Martin Burnell ship and insurance broker proved 18/08/1821 PROB 11/1646/381 was probably of the next generation. A Martin Burnell brother of John Burnell was dead by the time John Burnell of Clapham made his will in 1789 (proved 1790): the will shows John Burnell the testator as having a nephew, also named Martin Burnell.
HCA 26/6/72; HCA 26/11/123.
ADM 106/1132/122; ADM 106/1194/261
PROB 11/994/352.
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Will of Nicholas Burnell of the parish of Hackney merchant made 06/01/1774. He left his son, also named Nicholas Burnell, his estates at Yerbeston and elsewhere in Pembrokeshire and Carmathenshire 'and also the cup given me by the owners of the ship called the Augustus Caesar.' He left his wife £500 and left £4000 in trust for his son Nicholas with remainder to his second Richard Deffell Burnell. He showed his nephew and niece as John Deffell and Ann Deffell. His trustees included the London West India merchants George Chandler and Duncan Davidson.
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