P_10433_3058 – John Lyall
London merchant and ship-owner, owner of a slaving voyage from London by the Hannah to the Gold Coast and Kingston in 1790. His will showed a range of assets from land in Sussex, Scotland and Virginia to ships and financial investments in insurance. He was father of William Rowe Lyall (1788-1857) who has an entry in the ODNB as Dean of Canterbury.
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First name: John
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Last name: Lyall
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Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Sources: PROB 11/1435/195
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Crossings (1)
81702 - Hannah (1790 - 1791)
Role: Owner
Birth
Date: 1752
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Death
Date: 1805
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Burial
Date: 18/12/1790
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
Will
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Courts: PCC
Will of John Lyall of Haydon Square merchant made 22/11/1805. He placed his assets in trust (his trustees were his son George,John Pearson of Clapton and James Taddy of Fenchurch Street), listing his property as land at Findon in Sussex, an estate in Virginia, a house at Castle Gate near Berwick-upon-Tweed that he had inherited from his father, sole ownership of vessels named Northumberland and Four Friends, a share in a vessel named the Herculean, a sloop named the Ceres, three hundred pounds share in the New Road lately made through Findon; and £500 in shares in the Globe Insurance Co. He instructed his wife Jane be paid £250 immediately, and for her to have the income from the Findon estate and the turnpike road there. The rest of his estate was in trust for his son George Lyall, to whom he also left £1000, and for any other living children he might have. [In fact he had several other children, despite this apparently casual formulation].
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