P_10433_2822 – Bourdieu
Owner of a slaving voyage by the Aspinal[l] to Bonny and Martinique in 1798 and given only as ‘Bourdieu’. Probably James Bourdieu senior (1714-1804), but possibly his son, also James Bourdieu given sometimes as James Berney Bourdieu (1758-1843). The two men were partners in Bourdieu, Chollet & Bourdieu of London, an important Franco-Atlantic merchant house which owned estates and enslaved people on Dominica.
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First name: James
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Last name: Bourdieu
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Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Plantation owner: Yes
Sources: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146636379. The William Fell is given as William Tell and the owners as Samuel Chollet and Peregrine Bourdieu of Dominica in e.g. a Memorial of George Hammond dated 06/09/1793, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-27-02-0043.
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Lloyd's of London
Role: Member
Crossings (1)
80371 - Aspinall (1797 - 1798)
Role: Owner
Birth
Date: 1714
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Death
Date: 1804
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Burial
Date: 10/11/1804
Location: Croydon (Surrey)
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
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Town/City: Croydon (Surrey)
Courts: PCC
Will of James Bourdieu of [Coombe in the parish of] Croydon Surrey proved 01/03/1805. Under the will he charged Coombe and his lands at Norwood Common with an annuity of £40 p.a. to Mrs Sarah Gibbs, and left the estates themselves in trust for his son James Berney Bourdieu and his heirs, then to his son John Berney Bourdieu and then to his son William Bourdieu, then to his grandson Peregrine Paschal [?] Bourdieu, then his grandson James Bourdieu and then his grandson William Bourdieu. He also referred to the fourth and fifth children of his son Peregrine Berney Bourdieu in the chain of succession. He left £3000 to each of his three daughters secured on these estates. He left the rest of his property in England and all his unspecified property in the West Indies, including enslaved people, in trust to his three sons James Berney Bourdieu, John Berney Bourdieu and William Bourdieu to be sold. Under this trust, he left each of these three sons (who were also executors) £10,000, with the proviso that James Berney and John Berney would have deducted from their legacies the share of James Bourdieu in the capital of his house of business. He also left £10,000 to his son Peregrine Berney Bourdieu, and then to Peregrine's three sons Peregrine Paschal, James and William Bourdieu; and £6000 each to his three daughters Anna Maria, Harriott and Mary from his personalty. Two codicils dealt further with Mrs Sarah Gibbs. [James Bourdieu's wife Philippa nee Berney had died in 1780].
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