P_10433_2965 – Thomas Gillespy
Co-owner with a dozen others in the slaving voyage from London of the Duchess of Portland to Cape Coast Castle and Lucea/St Lucea in 1792. Very probably the sailmaker and coal-factor of Wapping, in partnership with his mother Elizabeth, and bankrupt in 1812. Despite his bankruptcy, he appeared to have reconstituted his firm in partnership with Thomas Gillespy jun. at 12 Billiter Square until 1831.
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First name: Thomas
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Last name: Gillespy
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Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Social background: Trade
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Bankruptcies
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LG 19 September 1812Issue:16647Page:1922.
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Supplier to slave trade voyages: Don't know
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Plantation owner: Yes
Awarded ''slave compensation' as executor of Charles Reynolds, under whose will he inherited £2000.
Sources: Probably but not certainly the coal factor of the Coal Exchange bankrupt in 1812 LG 19 September 1812Issue:16647Page:1922. Eliz. and T. Gillespy were sailmakers in Wapping at the time of the voyage, MS 11936/398/624002. Kent's 1794. Thomas Gillespy and others were in litigation with Peter Everitt Mestaer in 1804, C 13/610/43 Description: [C1804 M21]. Short title: Mestaer v Gillespey. Document type: Bill and five answers. Plaintiffs: Peter Everitt Mestaer. Defendants: East India Company, Thomas Gillespy, William Burridge, Matthew Boyd, William Powell, Thomas Musgrave, James Marriott Duncan, William Beaston and John Beaston. London Gazette 3 January 1832Issue:18889Page:6
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Crossings (1)
81071 - Duchess of Portland (1792 - 1793)
Role: Owner
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Death
Date: 1845
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Occupation: Sailmaker (Craft)
Sailmaker and coal factor.
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
Will
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Occupation: Coal Factor
Town/City: City of London (Middlesex)
Courts: PCC
Will of Thomas Gillespy of Crutched Friars coal-factor made 03/02/1824. He recapitulated legacy to himself of £2000 from his ward Charles Reynolds of Jamaica in 1815, which he left to his son Thomas Gillespy along with his other property, with an annuity of £20 p.a. to his wife Jane nee Cassels added in codicils of 1844 [he had made a marriage settlement with her at Leith in 1788 that presumably provided further for her].
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