P_10433_2764 – Richard Coley
Born: 1758
Died: Unknown
Co-owner in two voyages in 1805 and 1807 to Accra and Gold Coast, both to Kingston, but primarily a slave-captain for Calvert, Camden & King between 1784 and 1807. Thomas King was his co-owner in the two voyages in which Coley had an ownership interest. It has been inferred that after the end of the slave-trade he became a partner in Longbottom & Co., shipwrights in Ratcliffe Cross.
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First name: Richard
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Last name: Coley
Aliases: Coley, Richard
Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Sources: A Richard Coley was a partner in Longbottom & Co., shipwrights in Ratcliffe Cross c. 1816-1819, London Gazette 12 November 1816Issue:17191Page:2151. The will of Richard Coley proved 20/12/1833 in which the testator left around three thousand pounds was almost certainly this man, the shipwright, and identified one of his sons as Richard James Coley. Capt. Richard James Coley was a settler in Australia, a pioneering landowner, official and banker in Brisbane, whose parents were identified as Ann Blinkern [in fact Blenkarne] and 'Merchant Captain Richard James Coley'. G. Langevad, 'Captain Coley - Queensland's First Sergeant-at-Arms' (1979).
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Crossings (20)
83958 - Venus (1796 - 1797)
Role: Captain
83949 - Venus (1786 - 1787)
Role: Captain
83948 - Venus (1784 - 1785)
Role: Captain
80041 - Admiral Colpoys (1807 - 1807)
Role: Captain
83576 - Speculation (1793 - 1794)
Role: Captain
83302 - Reimsdyke (1801 - 1802)
Role: Captain
83257 - Queen (1794 - 1795)
Role: Captain
82755 - Minerva (1807 - 1807)
Role: Owner
82752 - Minerva (1802 - 1803)
Role: Captain
82751 - Minerva (1801 - 1802)
Role: Captain
82750 - Minerva (1799 - 1800)
Role: Captain
82582 - Mary (1805 - 1806)
Role: Owner
81478 - Fly (1790 - 1791)
Role: Captain
81477 - Fly (1788 - 1789)
Role: Captain
81476 - Fly (1787 - 1788)
Role: Captain
81475 - Fly (1785 - 1786)
Role: Captain
81457 - Flora (1792 - 1793)
Role: Captain
83959 - Venus (1797 - 1798)
Role: Captain
83954 - Venus (1791 - 1792)
Role: Captain
80040 - Admiral Colpoys (1804 - 1805)
Role: Captain
Birth
Date: 1758
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Death
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Burial
Date: 15/11/1833
Location: London (Middlesex)
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Occupation: Mariner (Labourer)
Slave-ship captain and then partner in a shipwright
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
Will
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Value of Known Legacies (where material to total estate): £3,320
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Town/City: City of London (Middlesex)
Courts: PCC
Will of Richard Coley of No. 7 Coburn Street Mile End or Bow Road made 18/02/1832. He left: his daughter Ann £100 for her care of his wife and himself in their illness, and £20 for her personal use; and his niece Mary Coley £25. He left his residuary estates among his children, 'two men and two women', Richard James Coley, Ann Coley, Mary Goggs and Charles Coley, defying his property as £2600stock in the new 31/2 per cent government securities. He had, he said, a bond of £500 and a note of hand for £100 from his son Richard James Coley, and instructed that interest be paid at 5% p.a. to Ann Coley until her death, when the bond was to be cancelled. He made Richard James Coley and his son in law Rev. Henry Goggs Vicar of South Creek Norfolk his executors; if Richard James Coley was abroad, then Thomas Durley Bond [a mast maker of Limehouse] was to be interim executor.
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