P_10433_3305 – Anthony Fonblanque
Born: Unknown
Died: 1766
London merchant (d. 1766), co-owner of a slaving voyage from London by the Lottery in 1765, together with Peter Thellusson (q.v.) and reportedly John Fonblanque (who had died in 1760). The firm was active as a mortgagee of francophone slave-owners in the Caribbean among other businesses.
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First name: Anthony
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Last name: Fonblanque
Aliases: Foublanqu, Anthony
Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Ann[e] Bagshaw
Spouse (married 17/03/1754)
Marriage at St Bride Fleet Street
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Foreign born: Yes
Naturalised in 1757 HL/PO/PB/1/1757/31G2n95 Title: Private Act, 31 George II, c. 37 Description: An Act for naturalizing Anthony Fonblanque, and Nicholas Baptist Aubert. Date: 1757
Supplier to slave trade voyages: Don't know
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Plantation owner: Don't know
Sources: PROB 11/924/376 For Thomas Maxwell Adams, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146650051. Susanne Seymour and Sheryllynne Haggerty, Slavery Connections of Brodsworth Hall (2010) https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/slavery-connections-brodsworth-hall/slavery-connections-brodsworth-hall/.
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Crossings (1)
91284 - Lottery (1765 - 1766)
Role: Owner
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Death
Date: 1766
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City of London (Middlesex)
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
Will
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Town/City: City of London (Middlesex)
Courts: PCC
Will of Anthony Fonblanque merchant of London made 21/09/1766. He made his wife Ann, his father-in-law Thomas Bagshaw, his friend John Dolignon and his clerk John Cossart his executors., and left them £40 each for their trouble. He requested to be buried at St Dunstan in the East alongside his brother John. He left legacies to family members for mourning of £130 and £20 to his partner Peter Thellusson for a ring. He instructed his executors to invest in trust enough to yield £300 p.a. for his wife Ann and then to invest the rest of his estate in the public funds as rapidly as consistent with his articles of co-partnership with Eleanor Fonblanque and Peter Thellusson, to pay Ann half the income (unless she remarried, in which case she was to receive 1/3rd of the income) with the principal after her death divided among their children, failing whom among the children of his brother John; and to pay his children the other half with similar contingent provisions.
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