P_10433_2816 – John Ramsden
John Ramsden (d. 1826), London merchant and financier, co-owner with Thomas Lumley (q.v.) of three slaving voyage from London between 1803 and 1806. John Ramsden and Thomas Lumley were partners with Richard Hunt and John Routh as wine merchants at 26 Friday Street in 1793. John Ramsden, first with Richard Hunt and then a series of different partners, was first assignee and then himself farmer of duties on poll horses in London from 1792 to 1817. He left personalty of £140,000 in 1826, one of the ten richest Britons dying that year.
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First name: John
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Last name: Ramsden
Aliases: Ramsden
Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Internal migrant: Yes
Ramsden from his will appears to have had family roots around Halifax.
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Supplier to slave trade voyages: Don't know
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Sources: 'Ramsden' also appears as captain of a slaving voyage from Lodge by Calvert, Camden & King in 1801, but this is unlikely to have been the same man as the London merchant. Records of Sun Fire Office MS 11936/398/619203, Insured: John Ramsden. Thomas Lumley, Richard Hunt, and John Routh, 26 Friday Street, wine merchants. Other property or occupiers: Elliott and Co, floor cloth painters Date: 21 September 1793. London Gazette 4 September 1792Issue:13456Page:688 (which gives him as of Tavistock Street); London Gazette 6 December 1817Issue:17311Page:2473. PROB 11/1716/92. W.D. Rubinstein, Who were the rich? Vol. 2 1825-39, 1826/14 Ramsden,John. PROB 11/1711/13.
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Crossings (3)
80457 - Bedford (1806 - 1807)
Role: Owner
80456 - Bedford (1804 - 1805)
Role: Owner
80455 - Bedford (1803 - 1803)
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Death
Date: 1826
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Burial
Date: 27/05/1826
Location: Slough (Berkshire)
Memorial details: Grade II tomb at St Laurence, Upton https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101251382-ramsden-tomb-approximately-18-metres-to-south-of-chancel-of-church-of-st-laurence-upton-ward#.Y85dHuzP1sU
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
Will
Value of Total Personalty: £140,000
Value of Known Legacies (where material to total estate): £16,200
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Courts: PCC
Will of John Ramsden Esq. of Hammersmith made 10/03/1825. John Routh was one of his executors, alongside his daughter Judith Ann Platt widow and two others. He requested to be buried at Upon cum Chorby [sic] in Buckinghamshire. He rehearsed his marriage settlement under which his wife Elizabeth was entitled to £300 p.a., and left her a further annuity of £200 p.a.; after her death he left an annuity of £100 p.a. part of the £300 p.a., to his relative Robert Ramsden, of the family of Dyson Ramsden near Halifax and the funds securing it to Robert Ramsden's heirs. He placed his property at Hammersmith and in Middlesex, Essex and Lincolnshire in trust to be sold. He left his three executors other than his daughter £400, and then £2000 each to two of them, John Sharman and John Gillett, with a further £3000 each after the death of his daughter, who was to have the income from his estate for life and who was to have the power to will the residuary estate, except to two named individuals, Joseph Woodhead otherwise Woodward of Russia Row and Moses Hope of Dorset Square, and the relatives of her late husband. If she married or cohabited with Joseph Woodhead others Woodward after the death of her father she was to be disinherited, and the property to pass tot he next of kin of Dyson Ramsden.
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