P_10433_2881 – Simon Cock
London merchant and slave-trader, with two voyages recorded as co-owner in 1805-6, both from London to the Gold Coast and then one to Demerara and one to Trinidad. Secretary of the Committee of Merchants Trading to Africa in the final years of the British slave-trade. He formed a partnership with the slave-owner and slave-factor George Baillie ahead of the latter’s bankruptcy in 1804-05, in which Cock was a critic of Baillie. Trustees were appointed to manage Simon Cock’s own affairs in 1812 and he was bankrupt in 1813. In his will made at Bromley in 1830, he left £3000 to Mrs Sarah Willoughby of Widmore Lane, Bromley for life and then to her daughter, also Sarah. The attestation of his will showed him as late of Chiswick and the London Dock House Princes Street.
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First name: Simon
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Last name: Cock
Aliases: Cock, S
Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Bankruptcies
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B 3/892 Description: In the matter of Simon Cock late of Basinghall Street, London, merchant, bankrupt. Date of commission of bankruptcy: 1813 August 13
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Internal migrant: No
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Supplier to slave trade voyages: No
Creditor to slave trade voyages: No
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Sources: London Gazette 12 June 1810Issue:16378Page:864 (Secretary of Committee of Merchants Trading to Africa). PROB 11/1876/149 (indexed under Simon Cook on Ancestry.com) LG 18 August 1812Issue:16636Page:1684 and 12 December 1812Issue:16680Page:2506. The Final Dividend was paid in 1837, LG 31 January 1837Issue:19462Page:245. George Baillie's Narrative of the Mercantile Transactions of the Concerns of George Baillie's Houses between 1793 and 1805 (London, 1805) T 70/1487 Private Letter book of Simon Cock 1807-9.
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Organisations (1)
Committee of Merchants Trading to Africa
Role: Secretary
Crossings (2)
80781 - Chalmers (1805 - 1806)
Role: Owner
83587 - Speedy (1804 - 1805)
Role: Owner
Birth
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Death
Date: 1834
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Burial
Date: 01/04/1837
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Residencies
Chiswick, Middlesex
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Was slave trading profitable: No
Will
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Value of Known Legacies (where material to total estate): £3,000
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Courts: PCC
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