P_10433_2735 – Thomas Gowland
Thomas Gowland (1728-1779), London merchant, creditor of estates in Jamaica including Springfield in Westmoreland, and sole owner of a slaving voyage from London by the Tartar to Bonny and Jamaica in 1769. This was the West India merchant of the same name ‘conversant in the Jamaica trade ever since the year 1764’, previously captain of a ship trading to Jamaica since 1756, who gave evidence to the Parliamentary enquiry of 1778 into rum contracts in the Americas. His first wife Emma Chamberlayne was the second cousin once removed of Jane Austen. Their son Thomas Gowland Chamberlayne (who appears in his father’s will as Thomas Gowland and to whom his father left £1000 based on his likely support from the Chamberlayne family) became an important English merchant in Buenos Aires.
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First name: Thomas
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Last name: Gowland
Aliases: Gowland, T
Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Relations
Emma Elizabeth Chamberlayne
Spouse (married 10/05/1766)
First marriage, at St Katherine Coleman, City of London.
Anne Harriott
Spouse (married 06/12/1771)
Second marriage, at St Katherine Creechurch, City of London
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Plantation owner: Yes
Mortgagee of Springfield in Westmorleand, Jamaica
Sources: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146662001 PROB 11/1054/13
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Crossings (1)
78276 - Tartar (1769 - 1770)
Role: Owner
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Date: 1728
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Burial
Date: 27/04/1779
Location: Ilford (Essex)
Memorial details: On the north wall of the nave is a monument in memory of Thomas Gowland, Esq. 1779; Emma Elizabeth his first wife, (daughter of Edmund Chamberlayne, Esq. of Maugersbury in the county of Gloucester,) 1770; and Anne his second wife, daughter of John Harriott, Esq. 1778
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
Will
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Will of Thomas Gowland merchant of Billiter Square made 05/02/1778. He gave £200 to his sister Mary, widow of Mr Robert Bishop, £200 at 21 to his nephew Thomas, son of his brother Edward Gowland, £200 to his niece Isabella and 5 guineas to his nephew William, and 5 guineas each to the three children of his relative Capt. George Gowland of Wapping. He gave £50 to each of his executors (who included his nephew Thomas then in Jamaica, two other men in Jamaica, his sister Mary Bishop, and John Allen, clerk to Drake & Long the West India merchants). In consideration that his children by his second wife Ann Harriott might derive advantage from their mother's relations, he left £1000 'extraordinary' to his son Thomas Gowland
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