P_10433_2979 – Robert Curling
London merchant and ship-owner, co-owner with his brothers John Curling (q.v.) and Jesse Curling (q.v.) of a voyage by the Earl of Effingham from London to the Gold Coast and Black River (Jamaica) in 1790, alongside the West India merchants and slave-owners Robert Moulton, John Deffell and Rose Fuller. The Curlings, with roots in Ramsgate, were an important commercial family on the Thames in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, as ship-owners, ship-builders and marine suppliers.
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First name: Robert
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Last name: Curling
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Sources: Robert Curling was owner of the Clarendon, Betsy, Generous Planter and Loyalist, ships in the bilateral Britain-Jamaica trade, between 1781 and 1800; THA ADM 106/1266/392; ADM 106/1295/136; LMA MS 11936/423/727668; LMA MS 11936/418/709485. PROB 11/1506/195. The Offley Hole estate, and Robert Curling's accession to it as mortgagee, was the subject of a defence by Edward Spence Curling in Gentleman's Magazine (1810) p. 307.
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Society of Shipowners of Great Britain
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81111 - Earl of Effingham (1790 - 1791)
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Date: 25/11/1809
Location: Camberwell (Surrey)
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
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Will of Robert Curling of Camberwell Grove Surrey. He left his wife Ann his household items, his freehold house at 8 Camberwell Grove and an annuity of £1800 p.a., to be funded £450 p.a. from his estate in Oxfordshire, £450 p.a. from the income from £15,000 3 per cent consols, £900 from the £18,000 he had 'out of trade' which he requested to be brought in to the stock or otherwise secured to yield 5% p.a. In a tabular recapitulation of his provision for his wife he added in Wapping Dock at £200 p.a. He gave to his 'son' [in fact son in law] William Young married to his daughter Ann £5000 out of what Young owed him; he left his son Edward Curling or Edward Spence Curling an estate named Elmstead at Stone Street in Kent, and £5000 'in part of ships' or - if not sufficient - from his effects, and all his 'joint share' in the Imperial Fire Office. He left his son William £5000 out of sums due to him by William on his bond; his daughter Elizabeth Barnett £5000 from the money owed by her husband Nathaniel Barnett and from part of ships; his son John Curling he left an estate named Offley Hole in Herts, with £100 p.a. payable from it to the testator's wife Ann; his unmarried daughter Catharine £400 p.a. in trust after her mother's death, with one shilling to her if she married; and his daughter Mary £5000 out of [sic] the £1800 p.a. to his wife on marriage or an annuity of £500 p.a. if she remained single. He left his Milcomb estate in Oxfordshire to his son Edward Spence Curling on payment of £6000 to his [Edward Spence's] siblings. He also made provision for Miss Rosina Beckford.
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