Sources for Black & Asian History at the City of Westminster Archives Centre

from The authentic history of the Cato Street conspiracy (1820) by George Theodore Wilkinson

sources for black & asian history at the city of westminster archives centre

ARCHIVES

First published in 2005 by Westminster City Archives 10 St Ann's Street LONDON SW1P 2DE

W: www.westminster.gov.uk/archives E: [email protected]

Sources for Black & Asian history at the City of Westminster Archives Centre Edited by Rory Lalwan

© Westminster City Archives 2005

ISBN: 1900893150

4 Contents

Introduction 7

1 Illustrations 9 16th Century 9 17th Century 10 18th Century 11 19th Century 13 20th century 19

2 Theatre Programmes and Playbills 23

3 Parish Registers: Baptisms 29 Holy Trinity, Marylebone Road 29 St Anne, Soho 29 St Clement Danes 29 St George’s Chapel, Mayfair 31 St George Hanover Square 32 St James Piccadilly 35 St James, Sussex Gardens, Paddington 38 St John Smith Square 38 St Margaret’s Westminster 38 St Martin-in-the-Fields 42 St Mary-le-Strand 44 St Marylebone 44 St Paul, Covent Garden 47 St Stephen’s Rochester Row 48 Wells Street Scotch Church 48

4 Parish Registers: Marriages 49 St Anne, Soho 49 St George’s Chapel, Mayfair 49 St George Hanover Square 49 St James Piccadilly 49 St Margaret’s Westminster 49 St Martin-in-the-Fields 49

5 Parish Registers: Burials 51 Paddington 51 St Anne, Soho 51 St George Hanover Square 51 St James Piccadilly 51 St John Smith Square 51 St Margaret’s Westminster 51 St Martin-in-the-Fields 52 St Marylebone 52 St Paul Covent Garden 52

6 Parish Records 53 St Anne, Soho 53 St George Hanover Square 55 St James Piccadilly 55 St Margaret Westminster 56 St Martin-in-the-Fields 56

7 Directories 65

8 Periodicals & newspapers 67

9 Institutions, clubs & societies 71

10 Military & armed bodies 75

11 Business records 77

12 Letters, diaries, family papers 81

13 Passenger list for the Empire Windrush 87

14 Select book list 95

15 Internet Sites 103

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INTRODUCTION

his handlist of sources for Black and Asian history at Westminster Archives Tis far from exhaustive: it is a work in progress. Some of the sources described are given detailed treatment, for example, the listing of events relating to Black and Asian people in pre-twentieth century Westminster parish registers is nearly complete; for other sources, no more than pointers to their potential usefulness are given. Nevertheless, we hope the listing will show the number and variety of sources available, not only at Westminster, but at many British local authority record offices and local studies libraries.

Some contextual notes are provided and some documents are transcribed in their entirety - but the work remains a listing. A select book list and a list of internet sites offer suggestions for setting the material in broader historical contexts.

The primary aim is to list documents relating to the Black and Asian presence in Westminster. But it includes too material relating to the experience and representation of other peoples of non-European descent, and notes sources relating to British imperialism and to the home front of empire.

Three classes of material are particularly worthy of note and invite further research: Westminster parish registers and records; the Westminster theatre collection; and the deposited records of Westminster institutions, societies, and businesses.

The Archives Centre is designated by the Bishop of London as the official repository for ecclesiastical records of the pre-1965 City of Westminster. The Westminster parish registers and records are one, if not the major strength of the Centre. Over 900 baptisms, marriages, and burials of individuals of African or Asian descent are noted here, primarily from the eighteenth century, but including earlier and later events. Complimenting these are parish poor law and petty sessions records relating to Black and Asian people. The poor law settlement examinations are an especially strong and informative source, commonly providing stark biographies of the examinants.

The Archives Centre theatre collection comprises several thousand playbills, programmes, portraits, news cuttings, and illustrations relating to the West End and other London theatres. It is the largest collection of its kind held in a public library. Although some seventeenth, and more eighteenth century, playbills are represented, the collection is mainly comprised of nineteenth century programmes and playbills and twentieth century programmes. References to and depictions of non-European peoples are commonplace in the nineteenth century playbills - references and depictions which expansively evidence prejudice and racism - but on occasions too celebrating Black and Asian talent and achievement. The theatre collection also amply illustrates opinions and beliefs which informed British imperialism.

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Deposited records at the Centre include the records of numerous Westminster, businesses, schools, institutions, clubs, and societies. The records offer several opportunities for the study of British imperialism and the domestic front of Empire.

he handlist owes its origin, and in part its content, to the imagination and Tindustry of the former education officer at Westminster Archives, Dr Jill Barber. She began the study of Black history in Westminster Archives, writing a teachers' resource, Hidden Lives, for use in Westminster schools and curating an exhibition on the Black presence in Westminster (viewable online at: www.westminster.gov.uk/archives). The handlist would not exist without her effort and example.

Most of the entries have been provided by users of the Westminster archives service and by its friends and staff. Often what, in the course of research, they have happened to turn up. The listings of baptisms, marriages and burials of non-European people in Westminster have been contributed, almost entirely, by family historians researching at the Centre. Next to our microform readers have sat, for the past five years, forms asking users to note any events in the parish registers that involve non-Europeans. The response has not disappointed: almost daily we find a batch of forms having been returned to the enquiry desk.

Thanks are due to the friends of the Archives engaged in the St Martin-in-the Fields settlement examinations indexing project - for submitting entries relating to non-Europeans. Particular thanks are to Eve Perry for transcribing the text of the examinations. My colleague Llinos Thomas has supplied a continous stream of references from new local studies acquisitions; similarly, Adrian Autton has noted relevant archival deposits.

Rory Lalwan

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1. ILLUSTRATIONS

Illustrations: 16th century

1511 [Black trumpeter at the Westminster Tournament, coloured photographic copy of original in College of Arms, Queen Victoria St, London EC4V 4BT/]; [EO - Illustrations A-BE]

The image is the earliest known image of a person of African descent living in London. John Blanc first appears in the records in 1507 as a musician at the court of Henry VII and paid 8d a day. In the image, he is seen at a tournament to celebrate the birth of a son to King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. The scene is an extract from a parchment roll held at the College of Arms.

Burial of Margaret, a Moor, 1571: this entry from the burial reigster of St Martin in the Fields is the earliest known reference to a black woman living in Westminster

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Illustrations: 17th Century

1660 [Coronation of Charles II – black trumpeter] [Gardner Box 55/60B]

C17th? James II throwing the Great Seal of England into the Thames, near Whitehall; [black waterman rowing];[Gardner Box 10/34b]

C17th Martin’s Best Virginia at the King and Still, Coventry Street, near the Hay market; [advertisement showing a black slave]; [Broadley/H/1/p588]

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Illustrations: 18th Century

1735 His Royal Highness George Prince of Wales [the future George III on horseback with African at his feet];[Gardner Box 69, No.18]

1737 A monument for Tom K-G; [Black Betty at Tom King’s Coffee House, Covent Garden]; [Gardner Box 29/11]

1738 Noon. Invented, painted and engraved by William Hogarth, 1738; [thought to depict Hog Lane, Westminster, St Giles in the Fields is visible in the background; the print includes a depiction of a black man kissing and holding the breasts of a woman who carries a pie];[Gardner Box 7 No 2a]

1768 Carlisle House, Mr Cornelys; [black man dressed as harlequin at one of Mrs Cornelys’s masquerades at Carlisle House, Soho Square]; [A132.1/15]

1768 A view of the dresses at the late masquerade given by the King of Denmark; [black man dressed as harlequin]; [A132.1/33]

1776 From Soho; [black woman fashionably dressed, probably seen at one of Mrs Cornelys’s masquerades at Carlisle House, Soho Square]; [A132.1/61]

1776 Mrs Frith bo[ught] of Thos. Adams [an itemised bill headed with an engraving of a black women and two black children in African (?) dress holding a parasol over the women's head]; [L135 (44)]

c1780 [Colour Court, St James's Palace, changing the guard - showing black military musicians]; [Gardner Box 36, No.25]

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1782 [Farthing Pie House Gate, Marylebone Turnpike; William Earl of Bessborough on horseback at end of Great Portland Street distributing alms to poor people who include a black beggar; drawing for oil painting, published 1790] [Ashbridge 334.91]

1787 The poor blacks going to their settlement; [Broadley/ BP/1/p138]

A caricature of the Prince of Wales and his supporters. They are depicted as impoverished blacks on their journey to re-settlement in Sierra Leone.

'Repatriation’ to Sierra Leone, 1787: many black loyalists who came to Britain after her defeat in the American War of Independence found themselves destitute on the streets of London. A Committee for Relieving the Black Poor distributed food and clothing but a more permanent solution was proposed by re-settlement in Sierra Leone, subsidised by the government. The National Archives holds a list of those who embarked on HMS Belisarius. Some had already died on board – such as Ann Provey’s husband John, who had served with the Black Pioneers in America, and their daughter Louisa. Over 400 people set off but 35 died on the voyage and within 4 years the colony had been reduced to 60. In an accompanying letter, one of the ship’s captains complains of the behaviour of Olaudah Equiano, also known as Gustavus Vassa, who was commissary, responsible for supplies for the settlers [PRO – T 1/643]

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Illustrations: 19th Century

C19th The Grand Finale; [satirical print with caricature of black musician in centre [Gardner Box 29 No3]

C19th Tom, Jerry and Logic in characters at the Grand Carnival; [black woman spectator in box];[Broadley/H/1/p446/top]

C19th An East India silk sale, or Mr Sleek hum-buggin 'em, i.e. the trading patriot turned merchant; [satirical print]; [Broadley/H/1/p597]

C19th A black lecture on the invasion of Great Britain [Pollit’s Black Lectures, St James’s Hall, satirical print]; [Broadley/BP/1/p284]

1808 Henry Augustus Mug, a witty cockney, sung with unbounded applause by Mr Liston, in the new play called the Africans; [a song about a white man being made a slave by an evil black man in the play ‘The Africans’ ] [Broadley/H/3/p243]

1810 Love and beauty: Sartjee the Hottentot Venus; [Broadley/BP/2/361]

1810 Sartjee, the Hottentot Venus, now exhibiting in London, drawn from life; [Broadley/BP/2/363]

Born in 1789, Sarah Baartman was a south African woman of Khoi descent. In 1810 she was abducted by an Afrikaner farmer, Hendrik Caezar, and brought to London where she was put on show as an anatomical freak - because of the 'unusual' appearance of her buttocks and genitals. She died in poverty in Paris in 1816. French surgeons dissected her corpse and her skeleton and several organs were preserved - some of which were put on public display in the Musee de L'Homme. Negotiations began in 1995 between the French & South African governments for the return of her remains - resulting in their return to South Africa for burial in 2002.

A documentary film, "The Life and Times of Sara Baartman - the Hottentot Venus", directed by the Zola Maseko, was released in 1998.

1817 Joseph Johnson, black beggar [Vagabondiana: or anecdotes of mendicant wanderers through the streets of London, with portraits of the most remarkable, drawn from the life, by J T Smith, London, 1817, p33]; [F301.44]

"... the effigy of Joseph Johnson, a black, who in consequence of his having been employed in the merchants' service only, is not entitled to the provision of Greenwich. His wounds rendering him incapable of doing further duty on the ocean, and having no claim to relief in any parish, he is obliged to gain a living on shore; and in order to elude the vigilance of the parochial beadles, he first started on Tower-hill, where he amused idlers by singing George Alexander Steven's "Storm". By degrees he ventured into the public streets, and at length became what is called a "Regular Chaunter". But novelty, the grand secret of all exhibitions, from the Magic Lantern to the Panorama, induced Black Joe to build a model of the ship Nelson; to which, when placed on his cap, he can, by a bow of thanks, or a supplicating inclination to

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a drawing-room window, give the appearance of sea-motion. Johnson is as frequently to be seen in the rural village as in great cities; and when he takes a journey, the kind-hearted waggoner will often enable him in a few hours to visit the market-places of Staines, Rumford, or St. Albans, where he never fails to gain the farmer's penny, either by singing "The British Seaman's Praise", or Green's more popular song of "The Wooden Walls of Old England."

Charles M'Ghee

1817 Charles M’Ghee, black beggar [Vagabondiana: or anecdotes of Mendicant Wanderers through the Streets of London, with portraits of the most remarkable, drawn from the life, by J T Smith, London, 1817, pp33-34]; [F301.441]

"... another black man of great notoriety Charles M'Ghee, a native of Ribon, in Jamaica, born in 1744, and whose father died at the great age of 108. This singular man usually stands at the Obelisk at the foot of Ludgate-Hill. He has lost an eye, and his woolly hair, which is almost white, is tied up behind in a tail, with a large tuft at the end, horizontally resting upon the cape of his coat. Charles is supposed to

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be worth money. His stand is certainly above others the most popular, many thousands of persons crossing it in the course of the day. He has of late on the working-days sported a smart coat, presented to him by a city pastry-cook. On a Sunday he is a constant attendant at Rowland Hill's meeting-house, and on that occasion his apparel is appropriately varied. This man's portrait, when in his 73rd year, was drawn on the 9th of October, 1815, in the parlour of a public-house, the sign of the Twelve Bells, opposite to the famous well of St. Brigit, which gave name to the ancient palace of our Kings, Bridewell; but which has, ever since the grant of Edward VI., been a house of correction for vagabonds, &c. ... Black people, as well as those of destitute of sight, seldom fail to excite compassion"

1818 The Piccadilly nuisance; [satire on stage coaches and congestion by George Cruikshank; the scene is outside the White Horse in Piccadilly; a chimney sweep talks with an amused, smartly dressed black servant]; [b&w: Broadley/BP/2/p424; colour: BP/1/p40]

C1820 Just arrived from the East Indies the Bos Indices Minor, or the Little Zebra of the Gaugha Hills in the interior of Hindostan; [show at the Waterloo Rooms, Pall Mall]; [D138 Pall Mall (10)]

1820 The hayloft plot of Thistlewood and his 24 conspirators at 8 o’clock in Cato Street, Edgware Road, London, to massacre the cabinet ministers of King George the 4th at the Earl of Harrowby’s Dinner, Grosvenor Square, 23 February 1820;[Ashbridge 950]

1820 The execution of Thistlewood, Ings, Brunt, Davidson and Tidd for high treason in forming a plot to assassinate His Majesty's ministers; [T138/Cato Street/3/OS]

1820 William Davidson [portrait from Authentic history of the Cato Street conspirators by George Theodore Wilkinson]; [Ashbridge 942.074]

1821 Westminster Pit; [dog fight at the Westminster Pit, Duck Lane, with a black man among the spectators]; [E137 Westminster Pit/1]

1821 The coronation procession of His Majesty King George the Fourth, July 19th 1821; [in crowd, black man (left foreground) – Chinese (right foreground)]; [E133.5/3]

1822 Curiosities and monstrosities for 1822; [satirical print, exhibition of Africans and Laplanders]; [Broadley/BP/3/p331]

1824 The Mathew-orama for 1824 ... [satire on the shows of Charles Matthews; depicts 'Agamemnon a poor runaway Nigger']; [Broadley/H/3/p340]

1827 Portrait of the two ladies from the Celestial Empire, and their Chinese interpreter ... 1827]; [D138 Pall Mall (8)]

1827 The morning after the marriage, or the new maid dutchess delighted …’ ; [satirical print re marriage of Harriet Coutts, nee Mellon (c1777-1837) to William Aubrey de Vere, 9th Duke of St Albans; an elaborately dressed black page boy in attendance] [Broadley/BP/3/p12]

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1829 The Siamese youths (aged 18) as now exhibited at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly; [lithograph, Collection on the Haymarket and other theatres, p63, FF792.94211]

1830 Slaves in bondage; [satirical print]; [Broadley/BP/2/p188]

1830 Description of a view of the city of Calcutta: now exhibiting at the Panorama, Leicester Square, painted by the proprietor Robert Burford, from drawings taken for that purpose by Capt. Robert Smith, of H.M. 44th Regiment; [791.53]

1832 The Little Unknown [Broadley/BP/2/p475]

1833 Life in the East [depiction of a black boxer at the John Bull Fighter public house, by Robert Cruikshank, in Pierce Egan's finish to the adventures of Tom, Jerry and Logic in their pursuits through life in and out of London]; [942.111(3), p219] c1832 The Honeymoon; one of a series about the ‘Little Unknown’ [N131/3]

1834 Venus and Adonis; [in series ‘Tregear’s Black Jokes’]; [Broadley/BP/1/p243] c1836 Zoological Gardens: the giraffes with the Arabs who brought them to this country, Cabas, Omar, Zardai .... [T136.3 (10)]

1838 Richardson’s Travelling Theatre; [part of coronation fair in Hyde Park; black participant in 'native' dress]; [C136/140] c1840 Explanation of the view of Bombay, exhibiting at the Panorama, Leicester Square; [A137 Panorama (13)] c1840 Explanation of a view of Cabul, the capital of Afghanistan, now exhibiting at the Panorama; [A137 Panorama (11)]

1840 Meeting of the Society for the Extinction of the Slave Trade & for the Civilisation of Africa, on the 1 June 1840, at Exeter Hall; his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the President, presided; [Gardner Box 23/21b; Gardner Box 23, No 2, another copy] c1847 Explanation of the magnificent view of grand Cairo ... exhibiting in the great rotunda of the panorama, Leicester Square ... ;[A137 Panorama (16)]

1844 A descriptive catalogue of the Chinese Collection, now exhibiting at St George's Place, Hyde Park Corner, 1844; [title page only]; [C134 Chinese collection (1)]

1847 [The Banquet given by the Reformers of Marylebone, 1 December 1847; to John Williams Esq, MP, to celebrate his return to Parliament for the Borough of Macclesfield; with key to names of 53 men present, including Rungo Bapogee (lithograph)]; [L132/4/OS; 7V/11]

On 1 December 1847 a banquet was held in Marylebone. Among the guests of honour was an Indian, Rungo Bapogee, who had made the perilous journey by sea to London in 1839 (knowing no English) to fight for justice for the Maharajah of Satara. He lived at 9 Blandford Place, Marylebone for 13

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years, looked after by two servants. He worked very hard to win support, and this image suggests that the Marylebone reformers may have been sympathetic to his cause.

1848 The Chinese junk Keying. [a souvenir of the exhibition of the Keying at Temple Bar Pier, Strand, 1848]; [Gardner Box 25, No 32a]

1848 A description of the royal Chinese junk Keying, 1848 [Gardner Box 25, No 32b]

185? Grand moving diaroma of Hindostan [at the] Asiatic Gallery; [758.1] c1851 Copy of verses on the awful fire at B Caunt’s in St Martin’s Lane [black man in the parlour [F138/SML/20]

1851 [Press cutting on the Chinese exhibition, 30 April 1851]; [C134 Chinese collection (5)]

1851 Portrait of He-sing [Gardner Box 25 No 32]

He-sing was one of the crew of the 'Keying', a Chinese junk which was displayed at Temple Bar Pier from 1848 onwards. He-sing encouraged further interest in the 'Keying' after he had appeared at the Great Exhibition in the Queen's procession

1851 The Chinese lady, Pwan-Ye-Koo, with small lotus feet, only 2½ inches in length!; [C134 Chinese collection (3)]

1851 [The Chinese exhibition at Albert Gate in Hyde Park, watercolour, 1851]; [C134 Chinese collection (6)]

1851 Entrance to the Chinese collection; [C134 Chinese collection (4)]

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c1852 [Mary Seacole before the Crimean War; copy of picture in National Library of Jamaica]; [E0 - Illustrations A-B]

1854 Oriental and Turkish Exhibition, Hyde Park Corner: the manners and customs of the Turkish Nation .... Turkish carriages, cattle &c. ... a Turkish araba, conveying a harem of distinction ...[advertisement with engraving]; [C138 Hyde Park Corner (38)]

1854 Oriental and Turkish Museum at the St George's Gallery, Hyde Park Corner, 1854; [C134 St George's Gallery, Hyde Park Corner (1); C133 (7) another copy] c1854 Oriental and Turkish Museum, Hyde Park Corner ... the manners and customs of the Turkish national, past and present, from Osman, founder of the dynasty, down to the present Sultan Abdul Megid Khan ... [advertisement with engraving]; [Broadley/BP/1/287]

1858 Description of a view of the city of Delhi, with an action between Her Majesty's troops and the revolted sepoys, now exhibiting at the Panorama, Leicester Square; [791.53]

1858 Description of a view of the city of Lucknow, taken from the Residency, now exhibiting at the Panorama, Leicester Square [791.53]

1861 Cabinet curiosities; [from Illustrated London News 16 March 1861; includes black man in bottom left of picture]; [Local Pamphlets no 37; 942.11(09)]

1865? Chang, the great Chinese giant', [Broadley/BP/2/p215]

Advertisement was issued to attract people to see Chang Woo Gow who was 7 feet tall, his wife 'Lady Chang King Foo', and 'Chung Mow, the Tartar Rebel Dwarf', who were appearing at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly. They were a popular attraction and had a private audience with the Prince and Princess of Wales

1893 [Photograph of an 'oriental' style interior at Major George Wallace Carpenter's mansion flat in Ashley Place, Westminster, 1893]; [E138 Ashley Place (15)]

1899 [John Alcindor (1873-1924) with John Hobbis Harris (c1872-1940) of the Anti- Slavery Society, and an unidentified black friend. Photocopy of photo from Dr Alcindor’s son’s files obtained by Jeffrey Green, 1981]; [EO - Illustrations A-B]

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Illustrations: 20th Century c1905 Mr Maurice Farkoa [photograph of the Algerian (?) actor and singer]; [Uncatalogued theatre portraits] c1906 Imperial Institute [postcards]; [E139 Imperial College of Science & Technology (2), (6), and (13)]

1907 ‘The Basuto Chiefs now in England as Delegates to Lord Elgin’ with Henry Sylvester Williams, 15 Feb, John Bull Overseas, p21 [copy from British Newspaper Library, EO - Illustrations A-B]

1907 My Friend, Sir Head G Joly de Lotbinere … Quebec, with earnest esteem & regards, H Sylvester Williams, 8 Sept [19]07; [cabinet photo of Henry Sylvester Williams, lawyer, taken in studio in Edgware Rd - copy given by Barry Cahill, Archivist, National Archives of Nova Scotia to Marika Sherwood; original in National Archives of Quebec, Joly de Lotbinere Papers] ; [EO]

1910 [Photograph album of a number of sketches of unidentified 1920s interiors, designs and photographs of two Indian Palaces Moti Bagh and Shish Mahal and train interior, 1910-1935]; [Acc 2233/14]

1914 [Photograph of 'Mazawattee tea cart', drawn by four zebras]; [T136.3/60]

1916 [Photograph, Geography class, Standard 1, Burdett-Coutts School, c. 1916: black boy in front row of children at desks]; [E139 Burdett-Coutts (6)]

1919 Indian Army Victory march, Aug 2 1919 [at Trafalgar Square]; [L139 (47)]

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1921 Photograph of Dr John Alcindor, 30 Jul, African World and Cape-Cairo Express, p521 (same picture appears in West Africa of same date) [EO - Illustrations A-B]

1923 [London Zoo, Burmese elephants with keepers Sayaid Ali, San Dure, Jack Milbourne]; [T136.3/63]

1924 [Signed black and white photograph of singer and dancer Clarence Johnstone, 28 July 1924]; [Acc 1500/21]

Clarence Johnstone, 1924

Clarence Johnstone appeared frequently in the 1920s at the Cafe de Paris, Coventry Street, Leicester Square, performing in partnership with Turner Layton. Charles Graves in Champagne and chandeliers: the story of the Cafe de Paris notes: "Layton and Johnstone maintained their position as the favourite cabaret act in London ... at the height of their fame they could make any number into a hit. One leading publisher admits freely that he wrapped a new song around a one hundred pound note, threw it

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into their dressing room in the Cafe de Paris and walked away. Layton and Johnstone sang the song and it was an immediate success"

c1925 [Oojah, pigmy elephant with black keeper, London Zoo]; [T136.3/55] c1925 [Four photographs of Chinese jewellers at work, c1925]; [Acc 788/65(b)]

1934 [St James's Park Open Air School: photograph of Empire Day celebrations, c1934]; [Acc 1822]

1937 [Coronation procession of George VI showing Whitehall and the Mall, featuring Indian troops on horseback, 12 May 1937]; [Acc 2262/5]

1947 [Photograph of Indian cricket team wearing Jaegar sweaters], 1947; [Acc 1327/518]

1955 [Exterior view of the Kashmir restaurant, Edgware Road]; [T138 Edgware Road 26a]

1958 [Photograph of street traders in Church Street market]; [T138 Church Street (32)]

1966 [Photographs relating to the Buddhist Society's premises at 58 Eccleston Square, Mr Christmas Humphreys, and visits by Dr D T Suzuki and the King and Queen of Thailand, 1969-1999]; [Acc 2005]

1969 [Photograph of an 'oriental' window display which won second prize in Regent Street competition, 1969]; [Acc 788/66(b)]

1970s [Exterior photograph of 61 Berwick Street, Golden Orient, Indian Restaurant]; [WCCAcc 98/13/16]

1970s [Exterior photograph of the Canton Restaurant, Newport Place]; [WccAcc 98/124/3]

1975 [28 photographs of members of the Chinese community and streets in Soho, including Gerrard Street, Lisle Street, Macclesfield Street and Rupert Street, 1975-1985]; [Acc 2429]

1980 [Photograph of winning five-a-side football team, Metropolitan Police Cup - includes John Barnes - with the Lord Mayor of Westminster]; [Acc 2381/7/4/2]

1980 [Girls on a bench at the Avenues Youth Project Adventure Playground, Queen's Park, Westminster]; [P136/ Adventure Playground (07)]

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1980 [Stowe Club for Boys football team, winners of the under 17 British championship, 1979-1980, including: George Stewart, Silvester Williams, John Barnes (capt), Derek Brown, Martin Pascoe]; [Acc 2381/7/4/1]

1983 [Photograph of Brazilian footballer Pele, on a visit to the Stowe Club for Boys (Pineapple Club), October 1983]; [Acc 2381/7/2/2]

1985 [Photographs of Gary Engelman and Basia Suzin who represented Westminster and won the tennis section of the London Youth Games, with trophy and being presented with a cake by Arthur Ashe]; [WccAcc 133/3/20]

1986 [3 photographs of the Westminster basketball finals, 15 Jul 1986]; [WCCAcc 133/3/47]

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2. THEATRE PROGRAMMES AND PLAYBILLS

An outline description of Westminster's large theatre collection is available at www.westminster.gov.uk/archives.

Westminster is in partnership with the University of Kent Canterbury, the Theatre Museum Covent Garden and other organisations in the Backstage Project: www.backstage.ac.uk/. The project aims to provide electronic access to a national database of historical performing arts material in the UK.

The Theatre Museum has produced a research aid: "Black and Asian performance at the Theatre Museum: a user's guide" - available at: www.theatremuseum.org.uk

C19th Characteristic sketches: the Call-Boy; [engraving of a black theatre attendant, with accompanying verses]; [Collection on the Haymarket and other theatres, p37, FF792.94211]

C19th Royal Adelaide Gallery, Lowther Arcade, Strand, Ohio Melodists [St Martin’s Scrapbook, General, 3, item 170]

C19th Royal Adelaide Gallery: ‘Prince’, giant American bloodhound used to hunt runaway slaves [St Martin’s Scrapbook, General, 3, item 164]

C19th Campbell's American Minstrels ... extraordinary illustrations of African melody and life!! [St James Hall Programmes]

1801 Il Bondocani; Or, the Caliph of Bagdat ... the dresses, which combine all the magnificence of the Turkish Empire, with the strictest adherence to propriety ... New Travelling Theatre, Lisson Green, Paddington, Friday, July 10, 1801; [Marylebone Theatre Playbills Portfolio]

1833 The Slave ... the Governor, Mr Bradford .... Gambia a slave, Mr Edwards .... Planter, Mr Simpson ... Royal Pavillion Theatre, Church St, Portman Market on Friday, September 20, 1833; [Marylebone Theatre Playbills Portfolio] c1836 New Strand Theatre ... an operatic burlesque burletta, called Othello ... Moor of Venice, formerly an independent nigger from the republic of Hayti ...; [playbill with engraving of a black man in military dress]; [Collection on the Haymarket and other theatres, p33, FF792.94211]

1836 Ferguson's extraordinary exhibition of nature and art and grand promenade, 167, High Holborn ... the Hottentot Lady from the Cape of Good Hope, Miss Kaitus Vessula, the second female of this particular formation that was ever introduced into this country. In addition to her very particular formation, this lady exhibits the most remarkable feats of strength [Strand Theatre]

[1837 or 1839] ‘Sich a Getting Up Stairs’ as sung at all the principal theatres by Mr T D Rice [Adelphi Playbills, vol. 3]

1837 The troupe elastique of real Bedouin Arabs!! Sidi Ali, Abdallah, Ahmed, Hossein, Mohammed, Hassan, &c .... [Adelphi Playbills, vol.3, 1837]

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1838 Law of Brahma! or the Hindoo widow; [Adelphi Playbills, vol.3,1838]

1840 The delusions of the Great Wizard of the North [featuring black assistant]; [New Strand Theatre Portfolio]

1841 Mr M. Jacobs, the justly celebrated royal ventriloquist and magician;[8 Feb 1841, featuring black coachman in background]; [New Strand Theatre Portfolio]

1842 Playbill advertising the Chinese Collection, St George's Place, Hyde Park Crescent [C138 St George's Place (35)]

1845 Scene from the pantomime at the Adelphi Theatre, grand pas de deux before Poonoowingkeewangflibeedeepflobeedeebuskerbang, king of the cannibal islands; [engraving]; [Adelphi Playbills, vol 3, 1845]

1848 The Bayaders or dancing girls of India ... Theatre Royal, Aldephi 1838 [four engravings, one coloured]; [Adelphi Playbills, vol.4, 1848]

1850 Royal Victoria Hall: advertisement for a grand moving panorama of the great African and American Slave Trade [A138 Leicester Square (32)]

1851 Grand extraordinary assault ....Saville House, Leicester Square ... [including] Jem Burn's Negro; [advertisement for an English and French boxing display; text also in French]; [St Martin’s Scrapbooks, Leicester Square, vol 1 (2), 106A]

1853 Two new races of people - the Aztec Lilliputians are a kind of human beings never before seen ... a race of pigmies discovered in Central America, in 1849, about the length of your arm, with heads the size of your fist; the Earthmen or Erdmanniges are a race of people only 3½ feet high, who burrow under the earth, subsisting upon insects and plants - discovered far up the Orange River, in South Africa ...the Earthmen, or Erdmanniges, have no vernacular language .... [Marylebone Theatre Playbills Portfolio]

1859 The gardens of the palace of the Dey of Algiers, a scene from "Asmodeus; or the devil on two sticks", at the New Adelphi Theatre; [engraving]; [Adelphi Playbills, vol. 4, May 1859]

1861 Funeral dance of Siamese jugglers, by Monr. Hullin's grotesques, Adelphi Theatre; [lithograph]; [Adelphi Playbills, vol. 4, 1861]

1861 Scene from the New Adelphi melodrama "The Ootoroon" - the red cedar swamp; [engraving]; [Adelphi Playbills, vol.4, Nov 1861]

1865 The Christy Minstrels, St James Hall [programmes for 1865, 1866, 1867, 1871, 1873, [St James Hall Programmes]

1865 Scene from the new drama 'Black and White' at the Adelphi Theatre; [Adelphi Playbills, vol.4, Aug 1865]

1868 Pindee Singh. Time - 1837. Act 1 - The bungalow of Col. Croker. A grand Indian ballet. An Indian landscape. The grotto of Siva. Act 2 - Neilgherry Hills and military station. Act 3 - Mihrab's Palace at Calpee. Act 4 - The festival of

24 theatre programmes & playbills

Siva. A ruined temple. Banks of the river Jumna .... Royal Alfred Theatre, New Church Street, Edgware Road; [Marylebone Theatre Playbills Portfolio]

Morgan Smith, 1868

1868 The celebrated coloured tragedian Mr Morgan Smith will appear for this night only in his favourite impersonation of Gambia as performed by him with great success throughout the provinces. The curtain will rise to the romantic play of the Slave ... [playbill with engraved portrait of Morgan Smith [Marylebone Theatre Playbills Portfolio]

25 sources for black & asian history at westminster city archives

1868 The St James's Hall Christy Minstrels Christmas Annual 1868 [includes song lyrics and illustrations]; [Broadley/BP/1/p244-282]

1868 The new and successful drama, written expressly for this theatre, entitled the War in Abyssinia! ... sufferings of the captives, bravery of our British troops ... storming and destruction of Magdala, death of the tyrant ... [Marylebone Theatre Playbills Portfolio]

1871 The relief of Lucknow! Scene - Lucknow in the Province of Oude, India. Time - summer of 1857. Act 1 The alarm! The mutiny! Act 2 Murder of 200 women & children by the wretch Nana Sahib. Act 3 Famine in the British camp. Arrival of Havelock! ... Alfred Theatre, Church Street, Edgware Road, Marylebone, Saturday 19th August [1871]; [Marylebone Theatre Playbills Portfolio]

1872 Moore & Burgess Minstrels, St James’s Hall [programmes for 1872, 1875, 1876, 1880, 1886, 1891, 1892, 1894, 1895 (programme and songs)]

1881 The leopard boy! ... this most interesting variety of mankind was brought from the interior of Africa; [poster]; [Royal Aquarium Playbills Box, 1881]

1902 In Dahomey [theatre programme, production written by and featuring Bert A. Williams and George W. Walker. Also featuring Aida Overton Walker]; [Shaftesbury Theatre Programmes]

1923 Dover Street to Dixie [programme of a revue at the London Pavillion, featuring Florence Mills and Will Vodery's orchestra]; [London Pavillion Programmes]

26 theatre programmes & playbills

1925 The Emperor Jones [theatre program, the cast included Paul Robeson as Brutus Jones]; [Ambassadors Theatre Programmes]

1928 Show Boat [theatre programme, cast included Paul Robeson as Joe and Alberta Hunt as Queenie; programme includes photographs of both]; [Theatre Royal, Drury Lane Programmes]

1933 Nymph Errant [theatre programme, production featured Elizabeth Welch; programme includes a photograph of Welch]; [Adelphi Theatre Programmes]

1935 Glamorous Night [theatre programme, production featured Elizabeth Welch; with photograph]; [Theatre Royal, Drury Lane Programmes]

Elizabeth Welch, 1933

Actress and singer, Elizabeth Welch (1904-2003), born in New York but living most of her life in London, performing on stage, radio and film over several decades. She achieved great popularity as an entertainer of troops during WWII. She appeared in Derek Jarman's film The Tempest in 1979, performing her standard "Stormy Weather" and continued her recording career into the 1990s.

27 sources for black & asian history at westminster city archives

1936 Blackbirds of 1936 ... rhapsody of blue notes and black rhythm [theatre programme, production featured a number of black performers; with photographs of: Nicolas Brothers, Jules Bledsoe, Maude Russell, Lavaida Carter, and Anise & Aland]; [Gaiety Theatre Programmes]

1938 The Sun Never Sets [ theatre programme, production included Todd Duncan and Adelaide Hall; with photographs of both]; [Theatre Royal, Drury Lane Programmes]

1947 Deep Are the Roots [theatre programme, the cast included Evelyn Ellis and Gordon Heath]; [Wyndham's Theatre Progammes]

28 parish registers: baptisms

3. PARISH REGISTERS: BAPTISMS

Holy Trinity, Marylebone Road 1842 May 14 Thomas Modeste, 13 Dorset Square, Negroe Boy [vol 15, p21]

St Anne’s, Soho 1687 Jun 24 Henry Barbadoes, a Blackmore [vol 1] 1688 Nov 15 Burt a Negroe-Boy about 5 years old [vol 1] 1688 Nov 20 John Primus, a Negro, about 18 years old [vol 1] 1694 Apr 10 William Culpeper, a blackman [vol 1] 1705/6 Jan 5 Moses, a black aged between 10 and 11 [vol 1] 1705/6 Mar 18William Pompey, a black belonging to Captain Kerr about 6 or 7 years of age [vol 1] 1709 Apr 24 Murat Nicholas, a Black of Mr Cecil’s about 11 or 12 yrs of age [vol 1] see St Martin’s Settlement Examinations 1731 [F5024] 1709 Dec 29 John Mings, a Black at ye Lord Weemes, about 7 or 8 [vol 1] 1712 Apr 23 Christian Haniball, aged about 16, servant to Mr Vernon [vol 1] 1718 Nov 17 Elizabeth Rice, a negro woman aged about 60 years [vol 1] 1725 June 30 John Pompey, a black aged 15 years [vol 2] 1754 Jun 3 Thomas Furnell, a black, 17 years [vol 2] 1758 Dec 8 William Franklin, a black aged about 18 [vol 2] 1762 Jul 1 Anthony Fisher a negro about 20 years [BT? vol 2, p183] 1764 Jun William Barnett, a negro aged 27 [vol 2] 1774 Oct 27 Charlotte Hope, a black aged abt 16 yrs [vol 3] 1777 Jun 5 Mary Williams (a black) abot. 30 years old, born May 4 1777 [vol 3] 1788 Jun Sarah Elizabeth Poulet, daughter of James and Sarah Juba Cambayson, a Black, about 9 years [vol 3] 1797 Jul 4 Elizabeth Ann, a negro, Carlisle Street 1793 Jul 31 James Green, a negro aged 30 [vol 3] 1797 Jul 23 George Henry, an adult Negro [vol 3] 1799 Jun 12 Samuel Newcomb, a negro adult [vol 3] 1799 Dec 31 John Baillie Bruce/Bence (?), a negro adult [vol 3] 1800 Sep1 Frances Adeline (?) Campbell, an adult negro, born 1770 [vol 3] 1815 Feb 8 Dick Loire, an African Negro about [14?] years of age [vol 4] 1819 Jan 7 John Lairs, man of colour, about 60 years [BT? P72, no 574]

St Clement Danes 1675 Dec 21 Charles, a black, his name Hercules [vol 5] 1688 Aug Samuel, a negro child [vol 5] 1704 Nov 23 William, a Negro about five years old [vol 6] 1704 Dec 3 Casar Clement a Negro about six years old belonging to Mr Screew (?) [vol 6] 1712 April 1 William Crofton [?], a negro of 20 yrs of age [vol 6] 1715/6 Mar SarthIna Maria a negro aged 20 yrs [vol 6] 1715/6 Mar Henrietta a negro aged 18 yrs servant [vol 6] 1717 Jan 9 James Powell a Negro aged 19 years, servant to Madam Whirdhall in Bridgewater Square [vol 6] 1717 Jun 5 Rachel Taylor a negro aged 20 years [vol 7] 1717 Jun 24 Mary Wade a negro aged 21 years, servant of Madam Cole in Shear Lane [vol 7] 1717 Dec 19 Anne daughter of Augustus Caesar a negro and Hannah his wife [vol 7]

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1717 Dec 19 James Long a Negro servant to Capt Edward May, aged 13 years [vol 7] 1717/8 Jan 2 George Lashley a negro aged 21 years, servant to Mr Bishop a gentleman belonging to Barbados [vol 7] 1722 Dec 26 Edward James, a Negro of Spanish Town, Jamaica [vol 7] 1726 June 10 John Monday a negro born 20th December 1714 [vol 7] 1727 Aug 1 Henry Coddington a Negro from Bengal in the East Indies aged 15 [vol 7] 1743 Mar 1 George Cork (a negro) about 19 years [vol 9] 1754 Feb 28 Richard Bennet said to be 28 years of age of Joseph & Mary, a black and belonging to St Kitts Island [vol 10] 1754 Mar 5 Thomas Brown, a Black [vol 10] 1754 Apr 4 Henry a black [vol 10] 1754 Sept 26 Philip Pitts a black [vol 10, p41] 1754 Nov 11 Henry a black about 23 years of age [vol 10] 1762 Mar 13 George Newton, a Black aged 17 years [vol 11, p10] 1763 Aug 29 Anna Maria Clarissa Essex, born of a black, base [vol 11] 1764 Aug 6 Joseph Myran [Mynan?], a negro aged 24 years [vol 11 p30] 1765 May 9 Dorothy Charles, a negro, aged 23 years [vol 11] 1767 Aug 5 Mary Ann Partridge, a black [vol 11] 1768 Jun 26 William Berry, a black aged 26 years [vol 11 p58] 1768 Jul 29 John Cook, a black from East Indies, aged 5 years [vol 11] 1768 Nov 9 William Wilks an East India black aged 14 years [vol 11, p61] 1769 Dec 25 George Cato, a black of St Helena, aged 5 years [vol 11] 1770 Jul 25 David James Lawrence, a mulatto from Gambia, age 8 [vol 11] 1771 Aug 27 Peter Bahar, an East Indian aged 12 years [vol 11] 1772 Apr 13 Charles Griffith an East Indian, aged 14 years [vol 11] 1772 Jul 2 William Adams, a black from Antigua, age 20 [vol 11] 1773 May 13 William Thorne, a Black from Bengal, aged 16 years [vol 11] 1773 May 21 John Phinocer a Black from Bengal, aged 18 years [vol 11] 1773 May 27 George Berwick, a Black from Africa aged 18 years [vol 11] 1773 Jul 2 Robert Monk a Black from Antigua aged 23 years [vol 11] 1773 Sep 10 John Primus (?) a Black from Antigua, aged 40 years [vol 11] 1773 Oct 9 Samuel Johnson, a Black from St Kitts, aged 25 years [vol 11] 1773 Oct 27 Luke Simon Falkland, a black from Senegal, age 17 [vol 11] 1775 Aug 29 John Gordon a black from Kingston in the island of Jamaica aged about 30 years [vol 12] 1775 Sep 4 Elizabeth Christian, a black from Jamaica aged 23 years [vol 12] 1775 Dec 4 John Seaner a black aged 18 years [vol 12] 1775 Dec 5 George Robinson a black from Jamaica aged 18 years [vol 12 p17] 1776 Mar 16 Thomas Clements, a Black from Jamaica, aged 17 years [vol 12 p19] 1778 Jul 10 Ann Morris, a Black from Charlestown, South Carolina, aged 40 [vol 12 p34] 1778 Aug 23 Ann Popples, a black from Barbados, aged 50 years [vol 12] 1778 Oct 23 William Priddie of the Island of St Christopher, aged 41 years [vol 12] 1780 Feb 5 George Falconer, a Black from the East Indies, aged 14 years [vol 12 p45] 1780 Apr 12 John Pope a Black man from Jamaica aged about 30 years [vol 12 p47] 1781 Jan 1 Francis Mead Lewis, a Black from New York, aged 30 years [vol 12] 1781 Jan 1 William Truman, a Black from the coast of Guinea, aged 19 years [vol 12] 1782 Feb 28 James Dardis, a negro from Mountserat, aged 23 years [vol 12]

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1782 Mar 19 Mary Morgan, daughter of Nathanael Morgan Esq and Mary his wife of St Mary’s in the Island of Jamaica. Aged about 17 years [or 7 years?] [vol 12] 1782 Dec 24 Charlotte Milner, a Mulatto from St Helena, aged 16 years [vol 12] 1783 Feb 9 James Bruce a Black from Barbados aged about 35 years [vol 12] 1783 Jul 25 Thomas Martin Winright, a Black from the Island of Barbados, aged 26 years [vol 12 p70] 1783 Jul 25 William Sussex (?), Black from Barbados, 23 yrs old [vol 12] 1783 Sep 24 Sarah Bean, a Black from the Island of Tortola, aged 24 years [vol 12 p72] 1786 Mar 4 William Meger, a black from Anjungo in the East Indies aged 17 years [vol 12] 1786 Nov Israel Jones, black from North Carolina, age 54 [vol 12] 1789 Mar Joseph Litter, a black age 22 yrs [vol 13] 1799 Oct 28 Phildo Julia a Black of Julia & Cannasser, Born in the Cape of Good Hope in the year 1781 [vol 13] 1799 Nov 5 Richard Richmond, a Blackman, born in Jamaica about 26 years since, of Dick Richard & Judy [vol 13, p109] 1799 Nov 5 Sarah Parker, a Black Woman, born in Jamaica about 70 years since, of Burnet Parker & Kenny [vol 13, p109] 1800 Jan 21 William Colville, a Black born on the Coast of Africa about 18 years since [vol 14] 1803 Jul 4 Jeremiah Primmer a Black about 18 years old [vol 14] 1804 Nov 17 Hannah Esther Warner, a black woman of Franklin and Rachel, born in the Island of Barbados in the year 1769 [vol 14] 1804 Nov 17 James Hatch, a blackman, son of James and Mary Ann, born in the island of Barbados in the year 1775 [vol 14] 1805 Jul 21 John Myers, a negroman born January 1771 [vol 14] 1805 Sep 15 Caroline Lamarhand, a Negro woman, born 1780 [vol 14] 1808 Mar 31 Edward Barry a native of Africa born about the year 1789 1822 Sep 4 John Nelson (8?) Negro parents [vol 23] 1822 Sep 4 Hosnell, an adult, parents none, Island of Barbados [vol 23] 1886 June 13 Frederick William son of Geo. Wm. Delaney & Elizabeth Josephine Muriel, 22 Stanhope Street, [father a 'negro comedian']; [vol 29]

St George’s Chapel, Mayfair 1729 Sep 28 Lea Clark, a Young Black Woman (in with marriages) [vol 1] 1743 Apr 24 Philip Deal, about 22 years of age, born in Golden Coast in Guinea, a Blackman belonging to Governor Ogle [vol 1] 1744 Oct 9 A Blackman about 18 years of age from China on board Commodore Anson, baptizd by the name of Joseph, his other names Abdela Walker being given him on shipboard [vol 1] - [married at St George's Chapel, 11 Oct 1744] 1747 Aug 16 John Ward, a Black [vol 1] 1747 Oct 19 Thomas Richard White, a Black [vol 1] 1747/8 Jan 21 Stephen Green, a Black [vol 1] 1747/8 Jan 21 Paul Roberts, a Black [vol 1] 1748 Apr 8 John Allen, a Black [vol 1] 1748 Jun 24 Partene Wilson, a Black [vol 1] 1748 Sep 11 John Lawson, a Black [vol 1] 1748 Oct 30 William Otho, a Black [vol 1] 1748 Nov 20 James Dove, a Black [vol 1] 1748 Dec 16 William Thomas Greenwich, a Black [vol 1] 1749 Sep 3 Lavellie Hampton, Charles and Williams – Blacks [vol 1]

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1749 Dec 4 Samuel Edward, a Black [vol 1] 1749/0 Jan 10 Theodotia, a Black [vol 1] 1750 May 24 John James Bristol, a Black [vol 1] 1750 Jun 22 John Wigmoore, a Black [vol 1] 1750 Jul 6 James Taylor, a Black [vol 1] 1750 Sep 7 Leonora Young, a Black [vol 1] 1750/1 Feb 2 Thomas Watson, a Black [vol 1] 1751 Jul 21 William Kingston, a Black [vol 1] 1751 Aug 25 Thomas Cumberland, a Black [vol 1] 1751 Oct 21 John Williams, a Black [vol 1] 1751 Nov 2 John Cuffy, a Black [vol 1] 1752 Jun 12 John Cuffy, a Black [vol 1] 1753 Apr 15 Elizabeth Saunders, a Black [vol 1] 1753 Nov 22 Robert Greathead, a Black [vol 1] 1753/4 Jan 26 George Williamson, an adult Black of St Ann’s Soho [vol 1]

St George Hanover Square 1728 Jun 17 Daraxa Maria, a black [vol 1] 1738 May 15 William Julius, a Negro Boy aged about 8 years [vol 2] 1739 Feb 26 Peter London, a Black, about 16 years old [vol 2, p59] 1739 Apr 14 William China, a Black, aged about 15 yrs old [vol 2] 1739 Jun 5 Susan Whitby, an adult black about 25 years old [vol 2] 1741 Oct 31 William Biner, an adult black [vol 2, p110] 1741 Oct 31 Mary Nanny, an adult black [vol 2, p110] 1743 Jul 5 Peter Clement, a black boy of about 11 years [vol 2] 1744 Apr 3 James Richard, a Negro man, upwards of 40 years [vol 2] 1747 Jun 6 John Cromandie, a negro about 19 years old [vol 2, p272] 1747/8 Feb 1 Henry, a black boy belonging to Mr Spencer, about 8 years old [vol 2, p290] 1748 Mar 13 Thomas Scipio a Negroe from Guinea about 9 years old [vol 2, p322] 1749 May 25 Thomas Grun, a black boy aged about 14, from Guinea [vol 2, p329] 1752 Dec 4 Joseph Harvey, a Black of Mr Hamilton’s Family [vol 3, p37] 1753 Apr 9 Juba, a Black belonging to Mr Matthews [vol 3] 1754 May 15 George Butman, negro servant to Mr Birt [vol 3] 1754 Aug 6 Thomas Lowe, a Black belonging to Mr Moore [vol 3] 1758 Feb 3 George Hugley Jones/Innes, a Black aged about six years [vol 3] 1759 Jan 3 George Kent, a Cochine Indian, aged about 7 years [vol 3] 1759 Jul 1 Robert Fulham, an East India Black, aged about 13 years [vol 3] 1760 Oct James Henry, a Black, about 19 years of, of Henry Dawkins Esq. [vol 3, p211] 1760 Dec 14 York Laurence, a black [vol 3] 1763 April Perry Grandison, a Black of Lord Verney's about 5 years old [vol 3, p 275] 1764 May Hannah Jones, a negro woman, about 34 years of age [vol 3, p303] 1764 Jun 21 Neal Malcom, a black about 17 years of age [vol 3] 1764 Aug 29 Jacob Rich, a black about 25 years of age [vol 3] 1765 Feb 1 Alice Dunbar, a black about 15 years [vol 3 p322] 1765 Mar 8 Phillis Ann Walker, a black aged about 25 years [vol 3, p324] 1765 Mar 8 William Henry, son of George and Phillis Walker, born 2 Dec 1764 [vol 3] (see entry above) 1765 Apr 20 William Martin, a black about 20 years of age [vol 3, p328] 1765 Nov 16 John Thomas, a Black about 17 years of age, Capt Thomas’s [vol 3, p346] 1766 Mar 6 Lucy Walker, a Black about 17 years of age [vol 3]

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1766 Mar 13 Margaret Lashley, a black about 24 years of age, Mrs More [vol 3] 1766 Mar 14 John Cornelius, a black about 28 [23?] years of age, Mr Fleming [vol 3] 1766 May 10 Thomas Scipio Payne, a black about 50 years old [vol 3] 1766 Jul 29 Peter Thomas Farrel, a Black about 16 years of age [vol 3 p373] 1766 Sep 6 Solomon, a black age 18 yrs last June [vol 3] 1766 Oct 27 Joshua Perkins, a black about 30 years of age [vol 3] 1766 Nov 21 Thomas Stepney, a black about 17 yrs old [vol 3] 1766 Dec 8 Joseph Moss, a black about 30 years of age [vol 3, p370] 1767 Oct 4 Francis Ford, a black aged about 47 years [vol 3, p397] 1767 Oct 4 Alexander Ford, a Black aged about 17 years [vol 3] 1768 Feb 4 William Smith, a black, aged 16 years [vol 4, p8] 1768 Sep 7 Thomas Lewis, a Black about 16 years of age [vol 4, p25] 1769 Feb 8 Mary Elizabeth, a Bengal Black, aged 14 years [vol 4, p35] 1770 Jan 12 Lewis a black aged about 25 [vol 4] 1770 Apr 13 Edward Peter Chambers, born at Bengal, aged about 9 years [vol 4] [probably white] 1770 Sep 19 John Lewis, a black, born at Bengal, 14 years [vol 4] 1770 Oct 6 Mary Lynch, a Black, aged about 18 years [vol 4] 1771 Jul 29 Frances Macklow, a black, born 1748 [vol 4] 1771 Jul 29 Charles Roberts, Black, 22 years [vol 4] 1771 Sep 21 Joseph Peterson, a Black, 15 years [vol 4] 1771 Oct 10 Mary Downs, a Negroe, 20 years [vol 4] [is there a connection with Thomas Downs, a foundling of 5 months, 18 May 1772?] [vol 4] 1772 Jan 7 George Ogilby, a Black, 17 years [vol 4] 1773 Oct 5 John Edward Wilkes, a Negro, aged 37 years [vol 4] 1773 Oct 19 John Saunders, a Mulatto, aged 21 years [vol 4] 1773 Oct 21 Hannah Hayman, a negro aged 30 years [vol 4] 1773 Oct 21 John Hayman, a Negro aged 18 years [vol 4] 1774 Mar 4 Charles Dinna, a black from Bengal, 15 years [vol 4] 1774 Apr 14 George Cogan, a mulatto, aged about 20 years [vol 4] 1776 Feb 20 Robert Douglass born in Spanish Town West Indies, aged about 22 yrs [vol 4] 1776 Jul 7 Joanna, a Black from Boston, aged about 22 years [vol 4] 1776 Jul 17 Florella, a Negroe born at St Helens, about 10 years [vol 4] 1776 Jul 17 Elizabeth Yates, a Negroe born at St Helens, about 10 years [vol 4] 1776 Dec 6 Anthony Cooper, Negro, aged 22 years [vol 4, p246] 1777 Apr 28 William George Kesley, Negroe, 25 years [vol 4, p260] 1778 Jan 12 Michael Berkeley a Negro about 22 years [vol 4, p280] 1778 Feb 20 Robert Douglas born in Spanish Town West Indies aged about 22 years [vol 4] 1778 Sep 8 Catherine Jacob, an adult person from St Helena, aged about 23 years [vol 4, p300] 1778 Nov 14 Charles, of Bengal, about 19 years [vol 4, p305] 1779 Sep 15 George Oliver, a Black of Bengal, 12 years [vol 4, p330] 1779 Nov 3 James Brown, native of Calcutta, aged 14 years [vol 4, p333] 1779 Dec 30 Richard a Negro servant of Lord McCartney [vol 4] 1780 May 9 James Hayman a Negro native of Jamaica, 12 years [vol 4, p348] 1780 Sep 21 Edward Gold s/o Edward Gould of Antigua, aged 17 yrs [vol 4] 1781 Mar 26 James Dutton a Native of Kingston in Jamaica, aged 40 years [vol 4, p372] 1781 Apr 6 Margaret d/o William & Susanna Honeyman, A Negro aged about 30 years [vol 4] 1781 Nov 2 James Priddam [or Roddim] a native of St Kitts aged 18 years [vol 4, p393]

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1782 May 19 William Romeo from Africa aged about 18 years [vol 4, p406] 1782 July 16 Juba Rutledge native of Virginia [vol 4] 1782 Dec 5 Robert Chantie a Black about 20 years [vol 4, p424] 1782 Dec 13 Abraham Hamhurst a Negro aged about 27 years [vol 4, p425] 1783 Feb 2 Thomas Primrose Moses a Black from Bengal AD 1758 [vol 4, p430] 1783 Jun 11 George s of George Hebdon a Black [vol 4, p442] 1783 July 21 Susanna Hopford [?] of Jamaica aged 26 years [vol 4] 1783 Sep 8 Margaret May, a native of Pensacola, aged 15 years [vol 4] 1784 Jun 15 Thomas Nottingham a black aged 23 years [vol 4] 1784 Jun 15 John Morris a Black aged 21 years [vol 4, p476] 1784 Jul 30 Charles Friday, negro, native of New York [vol 4] 1785 Jan 24 John Turner a Negroe from Calcutta aged about 19 years [vol 4, p494] 1785 Feb 5 Richard Brisset, Negro, Jamaica, aged about 25 years [vol 4, p495] 1785 Mar 10 Frederick, an Indian from Madrass about 9 years aged [vol 4, p500] 1785 Jun 26 Elizabeth d of Thomas Bacon a Negroe aged 25, Born at Guinee [vol 4] 1785 Sep 12 Isabella Hamilton a Black born at Kingston in Jamaica [vol 4] 1785 Nov 23 Philip Archer - Black born at Jamaica aged 17 [vol 4, p525] 1786 May 29 Ann Robinson, a negro born at Pensacola, aged about 30 years [vol 4, p541] 1786 Jun 5 Charlotte, daughter of Cave, a negro from Madras, aged 14 years [vol 4, p542] 1786 Nov 21 John St George Richard, a negro born in Barbadoes aged 18 years [vol 4, p554] 1787 Apr 5 Aplooni Christine, a mulatto, daughter of Horace and Aplooni Christine, born at Africa, 10 Dec 1767 1787 Jun 14 Ann, daughter of John Robinson of Jamaica, age 5 [vol 4, p573] 1787 Jun 14 Mary, daughter of Robert Horton of Jamaica, age 37 years [vol 4, p573] 1787 Oct 21 Sarah Inchmurren, native of Carolina, aged about 23 years [vol 4, p585] 1789 Jul 21 George Bowers, native of Africa, 25 years [vol 5, p54] 1790 Feb 13 Francis Dalrumple, a Negro from and born in Jamaica, aged about 25 years [vol 5, p71] 1793 Apr 11 Mary, daughter of Eleanor, a mulatto, born 1779 [vol 5, p175] 1793 Apr 11 Edward, son of George, a negro of Bombay, born about 1772 [vol 5] 1793 Jul 16 John Delvin, born in Montsurat in the West Indies in the year 1769 [vol 5, p182] 1795 Jul 22 Mary Perrinbay, born at Madras about the year 1781 [vol 5, p273] 1795 Nov 16 Joshua Winter, born in Jamaica in the year 1766 [vol 5, p252] 1796 Apr 14 Philip Foggison, born in Barbadoes about 1756 [vol 5, p266] 1796 Jun 15 George James, son of James and Betty Mason, born at Kingston in Jamaica, 14 July 1763 [vol 5, p271] (probably European?) 1796 Aug 5 Lucy Worthy, born at Spanish Town in Jamaica about the year 1752 [vol 5, p275] 1796 Oct 23 Frances Rose Chambers, born in the East Indies in the year 1758 [vol 5, p281] 1801 Jan 21 Thomas Johnson, of colour, born in Jamaica, about 30 years [vol 5] 1806 Feb 11 James Thomas, S. of (parents unknown born at sea in the year 1784) Black man [vol 6] 1808 Feb 22 Maria (parents unknown), woman of colour born in Molacca, Prince of Wales Island, about 25 years of age [vol 6] 1808 Mar 15 Henry John York, a man of colour born on the coast of Guinea, about 17 years old [vol 6]

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1808 Sep 13 Collin Gordon, a man of colour, parents unknown, born on the coast of Guinea, about 20 years old [vol 6] 1809 Jan 24 William Langton, a man of colour, aged 20 years [vol 6, p98] 1811 Apr 29 Arthur, parents unknown, born in the West Indies, about 16 years old [vol 6, p166] 1812 Jun 3 Man of colour about 22 yrs old [vol 6] 1818 Jul 25 John Johnson, a Native of Jamaica, 18 years old [vol 7, p79] 1864 Aug 29 Jacob Rich [?] a black about 25 years of age [vol 9, p310]

St James Piccadilly 1690 May 18? Nero a grown black of my Lady Barkleys [vol 1] 1690 Sept 3 John a black of Esqre Anselm [vol 1] 1696 Sep 27 John Tomson, a Black baptized by Mr Mackindoch [vol 1] 1703 Mar 30 Charles, a negro [vol 2] 1706 Apr 13 George Scipio, a black [vol 2] 1716 Dec 14 Mary White the black woman [vol 2 p191] 1722 Aug 27 Pompey, adult black age 19 [vol 2] 1722 Aug 28 John Marchindell, adult Black age 18 or 19 [vol 2] 1726 May 25 Philip an adult Antigua negro about 30 [vol 3] 1736 Jun 9 Clements John an adult negro, 24 [vol 3] 1739 May 15 William Wiltshire (a black) aged 23 years 1739 June 19 Monmouth Charles (a Mulatto) aged 18 years [vol 3] 1739 June 30 Joseph (a black) about 19 years [vol 3] 1740 Nov 22 Charles Chatham, a Black belonging to the Earl of Sandwich, aged about 13 years [vol 3] 1742 Jan 10 Sarah Litchfield, a black about 15 yrs [vol 4] 1742 Jan 10 George Litchfield, a black about 12 yrs [vol 4] 1742 Dec 21 Thomas Morgan (a negro of Govr. Matthews) age 16 yrs [vol 4] 1744 Sep 22 John Oliver Cromwell, a black aged about 18 yrs [vol 4] 1755 Feb 1 John BB son of Scipio (a black) and AnnWilliams, (born) Jan 31 [vol 4] 1755 May 8 John a negro servant of Mr March [vol 4] 1758 May 12 William a black about 10 years old [vol 4] 1758 Jul 26 George Hind, a black about 20 years of age [vol 4] 1759 Jul 4 Elizabeth Byam, a Negro girl about 10 years old [vol 4] 1760 Apr 17 William James, a Black [vol 4] 1760 Jul 9 Elizabeth Blake, a Negro about 12 years of age [vol 4] 1761 Jul 28 Winter, a black aged about 25 years of age [vol 5] 1761 Jul 28 John Hambleton, a black, aged 19 years [vol 5] 1762 Apr 20 Jacob, a Negro, belonging to Governor Glynn, aged 30 years [vol 5] 1762 Nov 22 John Pargora, son of Pargora Minis (a Black) and Elizabeth, born 2 Nov [vol 5] 1763 Nov 21 John Frasier, a Black, aged 19 years [vol 5] 1764 Mar 25 Nichola Namure, a Negroe Boy, 14 years old [vol 5] 1765 May 10 Joseph Seignior, a negro man aged 21 years [vol 5] 1765 Sep 18 William Lewis, a black, aged 20 [vol 5] 1766 Jul 14 John Carrall, a black, aged 18 years [vol 5] 1766 Sep 6 Solomon, a Black, aged 18 years last June [vol 5] 1767 Jan 2 John Weymouth, a Black aged about 15 years [vol 5] 1767 Mar 11 Thomas Moe, a Black aged 17 [vol 5] 1769 April 14 Wm. Greenhill, a black, born 1733 [vol 5] 1769 Oct 24 John Homer, a Black, about 20 years of age [vol 5] 1769 Nov 15 John James, a black, about 18 years old [vol 5] 1770 Jan 30 Francis Barbour a black about 21 years of age [vol 5] 1770 May 4 Wm. Brown, a black about 20 years old [vol 5]

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1770 May 4 Thomas Subtree, a black about 16 years old [vol 5] 1770 Jun 5 John Harris (of Job) a Negro about 19 years old [vol 5] 1770 Jul 26 William Simon, a Negro, about 20 years old, his father was call’d Simon, his mother Franky [vol 5] 1770 Jul 30 Margaret, a black, about 35 years old [vol 5] 1770 Jul 30 Francis Westone, a black about 41 years [vol 5] 1770 Aug 26 William Francis, a black, about 19 years old [vol 5] 1771 Jun 24 James Fortune, a Black, about 16 years old [vol 5] 1772 Jul 13 John Ray (a Black), son of Philip and Rachel, aged 24 years [vol 5] 1772 Jul 17 William Yorke (a Black) aged about 20 years [vol 5] 1772 Aug 18 John Thomas Loft (?), a Negro, about 24 years old [vol 5] 1772 Dec 9 Margaret B.B. of Elizth Herlley a black & Edwd Stroud, born Nov 29 [vol 5] 1772 Dec 16 Samuel Oroonoko, a black son of Gabriel & Mary, born Dec 25 1744 [vol 5] 1773 Mar 14 James Shearr, a Black, aged 8 years [vol 5] 1773 Aug 20 John Stuart – a Black, aged 16 years [vol 5] [Ottobah Cugoano] 1773 Sep 10 John Bristol, a Black, aged 21 years [vol 5] 1775 Jan 20 Joseph Phillips, a Black, about 30 yrs of age [vol 5] 1775 Jun 18 David Williams, a Black about 11 years old 1775 Jul 4 Mary Smith, a Black, daughter of Archibald and Mary, born 5 June 1753 [vol 5] 1775 July 16 Thomas Webb, a black, about 16 years old [vol 5] 1775 Oct 9 George Coleman, a black about 16 years [vol 5] 1775 Nov 27 Peter Eaton, a Negroe about 20 years old [vol 5] 1776 Feb 11 Richard James Williams, a black, son of George and Ann, born Nov 27 [vol 5] 1776 May 2 Henrietta Edengburgh a black 22 yrs old [vol 5] 1776 Jul 14 Sarah Oliver, a black aged about 33 years [vol 5] 1776 Jul 14 Samuel Benjamin, a black aged about 21 years [vol 5] 1776 Jul 14 Samuel Spear, a black aged about 19 yrs [vol 5] 1776 Sep 3 George Robert, a black aged 28 yrs [vol 5] 1776 Oct 8 Frederick, a black about 18 yrs old [vol 5] 1776 Oct 9 Augusta Eamon Hamilton, a black about 9 yrs old [vol 5] 1776 Nov 4 Thomas York, a black aged about 15 yrs [vol 5] 1777 Jan 5 John Othello, a black about 12 years old [vol 5] 1777 Jan 5 Catherine Bristow, a black about 23 years [vol 5] 1777 Apr 15 George Geeles, a black about 18 years [vol 5] 1777 Apr 24 Nathan Moore, a black aged 24 years [vol 5] 1777 Jun 8 John Jackson, a boack aged about 11 years [vol 5] 1777 Aug 7 Thomas Alibuck, a black about 18 yrs old [vol 5] 1777 Oct 10 William a black 36 yrs old [vol 5] 1777 Oct 19 John Crackharrow a black about 27 yrs old [vol 5] 1777 Nov 12 William Precious a black about 25 yrs old [vol 5] 1778 Dec 7 Thomas Howe, a Negroe age 11 years [vol 5] 1780 May 28 David King, a Negro about 32 years old [vol 5] 1780 May 28 Richard Maxfield, a Negro about 21 years old [vol 5] 1780 Oct 15 Thomas William, a black about 10 years old [vol 5] 1782 June 13 George Wilson a negroe about 17 yrs old [vol 5] 1784 Apr 18 John Smith, negroe about 30 yrs [vol 5] 1784 Apr 18 Charles Burke, negroe about 18 yrs old [vol 5] 1784 Apr 23 George Day, a negro about 13 years old [vol 5] 1784 Sep 1 William Sorlie, a negro about 32 years old [vol 5] 1785 Feb 1 James Place, a foundling about one month old [vol 5] 1785 Mar 1 George Young, a Black about 18 years old [vol 5]

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1785 Oct 11 James Thomas, a Black about 17 years old [vol 5] 1786 June 15 John Smith, a a black about 27 yrs old [vol 6] 1786 Jul 15 John Smith, a black about 22 years old [vol 6] 1786 Jul 30 William Connolly, a black about 28 years old [vol 6] 1786 Aug 21 Richard Richards, a black about 26 years old [vol 6] 1786 Nov 7 Jane Poulston, a black about 19 years old [vol 6] 1786 Nov 27 Elizabeth Price, a black, formerly Williams, daughter of William and Dorothy, born 1758 [vol 6] 1786 Dec 14 Thomas Hampshire, a black about 19 years old [vol 6] 1786 Dec 14 Thomas Cumberland, a black about 16 years old [vol 6] 1787 Jan 20 Melinda Phillips, a black about 17 years old, daughter of James and Sarah [vol 6] 1787 Aug 22 Ann Sheppard, a black, 17 years old [vol 6] 1787 Aug 31 George Featherstone, a black about 18 years old [vol 6] 1787 Dec 27 Richard Cooper, a black about 15 years old [vol 6] 1788 Jan 13 George Corner, a black about 12 years old [vol 6] 1788 Jan 30 Mary Ann Clark, a black about 24 years [vol 6] 1788 Jan 30 Christopher Hall Stanton, a black aged about 40 years [vol 6] 1788 Jul 2 William Cartwright, a black about 16 years old [vol 6] 1789 Jan 13 George Caesar, a black about 17 years [vol 6] 1789 Aug 3 William Roberts, a black about 18 years old [founded the Unitarian Church in Madras - described in Unitarians and India: a study in encounter and response by Spencer Lavan] [vol 6] 1790 Jun 11 John Hambleton, a black, son of James and Sarah, about 26 years old [vol 6] 1790 Jul 17 Thomas Crawford, a black about 19 years old [vol 6] 1791 Feb 21 Charles Augustus Bradshaw, a black man aged 19 years [vol 6] 1792 Dec 27 Catherine East a black about 29 years old [vol 6] 1793 Aug 9 John East, a Black about 14 years old [vol 6] 1794 Sep 18 William Perry Green, a blackman son of Newgent & Elizabeth, aged 20 years [vol 6] 1794 Oct 2 Mary Bourke a black woman aged 25 years [vol 6] 1794 Oct 2 Joseph Bourke a black man aged 23 years [vol 6] 1794 Dec 7 Frances Windsor, a black girl aged 15 years [vol 6] 1795 Mar 25 Sophia Steward, a negro woman, born 1769 [vol 6] 1795 May 3 John Murray, a black man aged 28 years [vol 6] 1795 May 13 Sophia Hamilton, a negro girl aged 18 years [vol 6] 1795 May 24 Samuel Drake a black man, son of Edward, aged about 30 [vol 6] 1796 May 8 Jean Pierre Palmiste, a black aged about 14 years [vol 6] 1796 May 8 [?] Matthews, a black aged about 15 years [vol 6] 1796 May 22 John Elias Caywood, a black aged about 17 years [vol 6] 1796 May 30 George Moor, a black aged about 27 years [vol 6] 1796 Jun 10 Robert Coward, a black aged about 17 years [vol 6] 1796 Jun 11 Robert Coward a black man aged about 16 years [vol 6] ?? (see above) 1797 Sep 4 James Baker, a Black, son of Santa and Silver, aged 22 years [vol 6] 1797 Sep 4 John Sims, a Black, son of Samuel and Myer, aged 16 years [vol 6] 1801 May 17 George Poice [?], a negro 18 or 19 years old [vol 6] 1801 Aug 24 Maria Martha Thomas, a Black aged about 19 years [vol 6] 1802 Jan 17 Richard Mancer, a negro aged about 26 years [vol 6] 1802 Feb 14 George Malaber Aggersborg [?], a negro aged about 23 years [vol 6] 1802 Sep 13 Emmanuel Anthonie, a black man aged about 26 years [vol 6] 1803 Mar 9 Nathaniel Cogan, a black s. of Robt and Carndace[?], born April 1801 [?] [vol 6] 1806 Feb 3 William Prince, a negro [vol 6]

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1808 Nov 23 Thimery Frederici so called after her mistress an adult aged 23 years 1811 Sep 17 William Collins, a Negro, about 22 years of age [vol 6] 1815 Apr 6 Charles Bambb Africa, abode of [parents] Africa [vol 8]

St James, Sussex Gardens, Paddington 1763 Jun 26 Oringo Manico Cassum-bazar, a black boy and servant of John Adam Frederick Hesse Esq [vol 4] Hesse had a house in Black Lion Lane, was Overseer of Poor (1767-69) and Churchwarden (1769-70)

1806 Oct 12 Sarah, a Black Girl aged about 18 years, her Godfather was William Townsend, a black manservant of Mr Harcourt of Winchester Row, and her Godmothers were Mary Squires, no 6 Bowling Green Buildings and Hannah Bock, no 5 Bowling Green Buildings [vol 5]

St John Smith Square 1733 Jan 10 John Brown, a Blackamore [vol 1, p52] 1760 Sep 5 John James, an adult Black [vol 2, p51] 1772 Nov 25 James Wilson, an adult Blackmoor [vol 2, p159] 1773 Feb 5 Andrew Clarke, a Mulatto of Riper Years [vol 2, p160] 1773 Sep 1 John Johnson an Adult Blackmoor [vol 2, p166] 1773 Sep 1 Sarah Johnson an Adult Blackmoor [vol 2, p166] 1773 Oct 7 William Marsh an adult Blackmoor [vol 2, p167] 1784 Oct 1 Robert George Rodney, an East Indian, supposed 13 years old [vol 2, p237] 1786 Feb 10 James Murray Claus, an adult Blackmoor, unknown … [vol 2, p245]

St Margaret’s Westminster 1619/20 Mar 19 Nicholas a Negro of unknown parents was baptised at the age of three years or thereabouts [vol 4] 1686 Oct 4 Phobie, about 26 years of age [vol 8] 1689 May 20 Ebedmeleck a negro about 10 yrs old [vol 8] 1699 Aug 30 Lucinda, a blackmore, about 14 years [vol 8] 1701 Aug 29 William, a Negro, about 30 years old [vol 8] 1712 Sep 12 James Prince, a Negro, aged 16 years [vol 9] 1718 Jul 28 Rachel a negro aged 30 years, servant to Mrs Susanna Closse in Marsham Street [vol 9] 1721 Oct 18 John an Indian borne in Bengall formerly called Hector Buce aged about 23 yrs [vol 9] 1723 Jun 24 Susanna Johnson born of black parents in Jamaica aged about 17 years [vol 9] 1741 Apr 17 Judith Dymock, aged 22, a negro woman [vol 10] 1749 Jan 6 John Beyer a black born in Guinea in 1732 [vol 10] 1750 Aug 15 Joseph Green alias Kendrick a black born at Kingston, Jamaica, 13 years old [vol 11] 1751 Oct 16 Pharaoh Primus, son of Pharaoh by Phyllis a Black born in New England in 1722 [vol 11] 1755 Mar 14 Edmund Townshend a Black born in Barbados, about 27 years old [vol 11] 1756 Feb 12 George Blake a Black from Guinea 10 yrs old [vol 11]

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Baptism of Nicholas, a Negro (St Margaret Westminster 1619/20). This is the first record of a black child known to have been living in Westminster.

1756 Feb 12 Frederick Carr a Black from Guinea 14 yrs old [vol 11] 1756 Jul 19 John Archer, a black born at Guinea, 18 years old [vol 11] 1756 Jul 19 Edward Jones, a black born at Guinea, 12 years old [vol 11] 1756 Jul 19 James Grattan, a Black born at Guinea, 8 years old [vol 11] 1757 May 13 John Thomas Osborn, a Black born at Barbadoes above 40 years ago [vol 11] 1757 Nov 4 Caesar Dover a Black born at Madagascar, 12 years old [vol 11] 1757 Dec 9 JohnFree, a Negroe [vol. 11] 1758 Mar 5 Sarah, daughter of Abraham and Maria Townsend, born at Barbadoes, supposed about 13 years old [vol 11] 1758 Jul 6 Jane Gray a Black born at Antigua, aged 19 years [vol 11] 1758 Jul 19 Maria Gray a Black born at Antigua aged 16 years [vol 11] 1758 Aug 19 Benjamin Provost, a Black born in New York, June 1736 [vol 11] 1759 Feb 9 Gustavus Vassa a Black born in Carolina 12 years old [Olaudah Equiano] [vol 11] 1759 Oct 7 Mary Ann Sancho d. of Ignatius by Ann (b Sep 17) [vol 11] 1760 May 2 Samuel Williams, a Black born in Jamaica, 24 years old [vol 11] 1760 Oct 4 William Pickhamer [?] Guinea 19 yrs [vol 11] 1761 Jan 25 Frances Joanna Sancho d. of Charles Ignatius by Ann (b Jan 13) [vol 11] 1761 Jan 28 John Shropshire born at Guinea 19 years old [vol 11] 1761 Jun 3 Thomas William Lewis Guinea 19 yrs [vol 11] 1761 Aug 2 Joseph Johnson, a Black born at Guadaloupe, 20 years old [vol 11] 1762 Apr 2 Mercy Adams a Black born at Barbadoes about 40 years ago [vol 11]

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St Margaret Westminster, baptismal register, April 1762

1762 Apr 2 Richard Bird a Black born at Barbadoes about 24 years [vol 11] 1762 Apr 2 Joseph Prince a Black born at Tortola in America about 20 years [vol 11] 1762 Apr 12 Charlotte Lessell a Black born at Jamaica, 14 years old [vol 11] 1762 Oct 24 Ann Thomas a Black born at Jamaica 45 years old [vol 11] 1763 Apr 24 John Hummun a Black born at Guinea about 16 years old [vol 11] 1763 Jul 3 Henry Genear a Black born at Madagascar in the East Indies about 12 years old [vol 11] 1763 Jul 5 George Jennus Bennett, a Black born in Jamaica, about 20 years old [vol 11] 1763 Aug 23 Samuel Preston a Black born at Guinea 26 years old [vol 11] 1763 Aug 23 William Campbell a Black born at Guinea 18 years old [vol 11] 1763 Aug 23 John Money a Black born at Guinea 29 years old [vol 11] 1763 Aug 25 Caroline Summers a Black born at Guinea 30 years old [vol 11] 1763 Sep 18 Ann Alice Sancho d. of Charles Ignatius by Ann (b Aug 21) [vol 11] 1763 Nov Henry Genear a black b Madagascar in theEast Indies about 12 years [vol 11] 1763 Nov 3 John Nugent, a black born at Antigua, 14 years [vol 11] 1763 Nov 23 Thomas Leeson a Black from Martinico, 25 years old [vol 11] 1764 May 9 Barbary Roswell Moore, a Black born at Barbadoes about 29 years old [vol 11] 1764 Jul 22 George McKenzie, a Black from Guinea, 38 years [vol 11] 1764 Aug 26 Henrietta Ann Lewis, a black from America, 21 years old [vol 11] 1765 Jan 25 James Freeman Kingston, a Black from Jamaica about 20 years old [vol 11] 1766 Oct 18 Charles Henry Ashley, a Black from Worthy Park Plantation, in St John’s Parish, Jamaica, about 15 years old [vol 11] 1767 Oct 2 Elizabeth Radnor, a Black from the East Indies, about 21 years old [vol 11] 1767 Dec 2 John Cannon, a Black about 14 years old from St Helena [vol 11] 1768 May 24 Charles Glaseo, a Black, an Adult [vol 11] 1768 Jun 27 George Basston Cesara, Black from the coast of Guinea, about 28 years old [vol 11] 1768 Sep 2 Mary Rebecca Baldwin, a Black from Bengal about 13 yrs old [vol 11] 1768 Oct 25 Richard Malabar, a Black from Bengal, about 12 years old [vol 11] 1769 Feb 1 Charles Christian, a Black from Martinico about 18 years old [vol 11]

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1772 Jan 26 John Goree [Gorro?] , a black from Goree, 14 years old [vol 12] 1772 Feb 26 John Wigton a Black from Philadelphia 21 yrs old [vol 12] 1773 Jan 10 William Guttridge a black from the East Indies Oct 1759 [vol 12] 1773 June 23 John Connon a Black from the Grenados about 12 yrs [vol 12] 1773 Nov 13 William Powell a Black from Jamaica 19 yrs old [vol 12] 1775 Jan 4 Rebecca Abram a Black from South Carolina about 21 years old [vol 12] 1775 Jan 5 John Bassett a Black from South Carolina about 25 years old [vol 12] 1775 Jan 11 Rachel Carter a Black from South Carolina about 30 years old [vol 12] 1775 Sep 20 Elizabeth Ann Anderson a Black from Bengal about 14 years old 1775 Oct 10 Jane Harris, a Negro, about 19 years old [vol 12] 1777 Sep 5 Diana Douglas a Negro from the West Indies about 26 years old [vol 12] 1777 Oct 30 John Thomas a Black from Jamaica about 15 years old [vol 12] 1778 Jan 16 John Douglas, a Black boy from Antigua about 25 years old [vol 11- 12] 1778 Aug 31 Henry Percy a Black from Africa 26 years old [vol 12] 1779 Jul 8 Elizabeth Marshall d of John by Elizabeth a Black from Jamaica 20 years old [vol 12] 1781 Apr 9 John Swithin a Black from the East Indies about 15 years old [vol 12] 1781 Aug 10 George Hector a Black from Madras 10 years old [vol 12] 1781 Oct 2 Peter a Black born in New York about 4 years old [vol 12] 1781 Oct 3 Robert Baker a Black born in New York 4 years old [vol 12] 1782 Jun 15 Mary Ann Darking a Black from Guinea 30 years old [vol 12] 1782 Oct 8 James Maxfield a Black from Jamaica 40 years old [vol 12] 1782 Oct 8 George Cupid Maxfield a Black from Florida 9 years old [vol 12] 1783 Jan 5 Grace Adams a Black from Pensacola, 21 years old [vol 12] 1783 Feb 24 Thomas Howe a Black from North Carolina about 30 years old [vol 12] 1783 Feb 24 John Blackley a black from Africa about 32 years old [vol 12] 1783 Feb 24 William Newton a Black from Barbadoes about 42 years old [vol 12] 1783 Feb 24 Isaac Harman a Black from Charlestown about 45 years old [vol 12] 1783 Apr 16 William Bally a Black from the East Indies about 15 years old [vol 12] 1783 Apr 28 James John Heligar a Black from St Eustatia about 22 years old [vol 12] 1783 May 6 James Munsell a Black from St Dominica about 22 years old [vol 12] 1783 Aug 15 John Sampson a Negroe from Guinea about 26 years old [vol 12] 1783 Sep 28 Joseph Turnbull a Black from Tortula in the West Indies about 14 years old [vol 12] 1784 May 22 John Dee a Mulatto from St Helena about 9 years old [vol 12] 1784 Jun 7 Katherine Smith a black from South Carolina, [born] 7 June 1758 [vol 12] 1784 Jun 12 Elizabeth Macquin a black from Charles Town about 23 years old [vol 12] 1784 Jul 5 Susanna Owen a black from South Carolina about 6 years old [vol 12] 1784 Jul 6 Hannah Owen a black from South Carolina about 30 years old [vol 12] 1785 May 18 Jacob Farrell a creole from the West Indies about 22 years old [vol 12] 1785 May 26 Thomas Cary a negroe from New York, 14 years old [vol 12] 1786 Jul 16 Eliza Symes, a Black born at Guinea, 16 years old [vol 13] 1786 Jul 16 Eliza Anglin Symes, dau of Charles Jeffreys by Eliza Anglin born 19 June [vol 13] 1788 Feb 16 Mary Ann Shepard, a black from South Carolina, born 5 March 1763 [vol 13] 1788 Jul 3 James Elliot a Mulatto from Boncoolon born in April 1772 [vol 13] (Bencoolen is a port on the west coast of Sumatra – now part of

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Indonesia - it was an East India Company ‘factory’ or trading depot on the route to China) 1788 Oct 5 Thomas Moses, a Negro from Charles Town, South Carolina, about 25 years old [vol 13] 1788 Oct 25 Ormond Beckford, a negro from Jamaica, about 30 years old [vol 13] 1790 Dec 26 Daniel Thomas Davies, an Adult aged 28, born at New York in America, a Black [vol 13] 1800 Jul 6 John Joseph Torrit, a black from St Domingo about 16 years of age [vol 14] 1802 Apr 16 Willm Anthony Roach a black from Jamaica born Aug 1790 [vol 14 p108] 1802 Aug 9 Joseph, a Black from Barbadoes about 30 years old [vol 14] 1802 Aug 9 George Spencer, son of George, born in India 7 September 1799 [vol 14] 1806 June 6 John Edward a black bn 25 December 1790 [vol 14] 1816 Jan 5 Francis Smith a native of Madagascar, born about 10 years ago [vol 18 p24] 1820 Apr 18 Frederick, an Indian 24 years old, son of one Gabriel a seaman in the island of St Lucia [vol 19] 1821 Sep 30 Andrew Roach, adult negro, born 1800 [vol 20]

St Martin-in-the-Fields 1693 Nov 8 Richard Williams, a Negroe, aged 17 years [vol 8] 1693/4 Jan 6 George Caesar a Negroe aged 16 years [vol 8, p49] 1712 Apr 26 Julius Caesar, a Black, aged 14 years [vol 9] 1716 Oct 15 John, My Lady Donnegal’s Black [vol 10] 1722 John Marchendall a blackamoor [vol 11, p50] - SEE ALSO settlement examination in Parish Records section. 1732 Mar 31 Andrew Cox aged 26 years, negroe servant to Governor Worsley [vol 12 p252] 1736 Nov Andrew a negro [[vol 13 p87] 1740 Feb 28 John China, a black boy, about 10 years [vol 13] 1742 Oct 11 John, a Negroe Male [vol 14, p35] 1744 Jan 21 Thomas Lindley (a black) aged 27 years [vol 14, p97] 1746 Sep 14 William Othello Trusty (a black) aged about 22 years [vol 14, p135] 1749 Jun 17 George Pompey (a black) aged 19 years [vol 14, p201] 1749 Jul 23 George Leslie, a black, aged 20 years [vol 14, p203] 1750 Jun 8 Frank Truro, aged about 4 years, a black [vol 14, p225] 1753 Apr 6 George Martin, a Negro, aged about 21 years [vol 15, p39] 1756 Nov 29 James Warren, a black, about 9 years old [vol 15] 1761 Dec 9 Joseph Graham, a native of the island of Antigua, aged 20 years [vol 15 p238] 1762 Mar 14 Judith Baker (a black) about 22 years old [vol 15] 1763 Apr 14 Francis Slack, a Black, aged 25 years [vol 15] 1763 Apr 19 Daniel Hayman, a Black, aged 26 years [vol 15] 1764 Jan 27 Henry Scott (a Negro) about 19 years old [vol 16] 1764 Feb 1 John Alexander, a Black, aged 23 years [vol 16] 1764 Apr 16 Elizabeth Fitch, a Black, aged about 21 years [vol 16] 1764 Nov 17 Caesar Bishop, a black, about 12 yrs old [vol 16] 1764 Nov 17 George Arno, a black, about 7 yrs old [vol 16] 1764 Dec 24 Samuel, a Black, about 18 years old [vol 16] 1765 Jan 3 David Lesslie, a black, about 21 yrs old [vol 16] 1765 Jan 3 Margaret Lesslie, a black, about 16 yrs old [vol 16]

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1765 Sep 2 Thomas Piece (a Black) about 17 years of age [vol 16] 1766 Oct 9 Thomas Dessa, an African, about 20 years old [vol 16] 1767 Dec 7 William Mutter Mill Sachey Coffey son of Sachey Cudgoe at James Fort Accra in Africa about nineteen years old [vol 16] 1768 Feb 4 Daniel Kent, a Black about 17 years old [vol 16, p127] 1777 Mar 3 Thomas Freeman, an African, about 21 years old [vol 17 p 46] 1778 Sep 16 James Martin from Antigua aged actual 15 years [vol 17] 1778 Sep 28 Sarah Edwards of Thomas & Sarah born at Montreal Canada July 16 [vol 17 p88] 1779 Mar 26 Sarah De Lazare Frances Hadley of George Esq & Johanna born at Calcutta East India Oct 1771 [vol 17 p102] 1781 July 29 Sarah Grant of Anthony & Palvira born in Bridgetown Barbados about 1749 [vol 17] 1781 Aug 17 Mary Harris of Steel & Isabella born in Dorchester, South Carolina about 1736 [?] [vol 17 p161] 1781 Aug 20 Richard Perkins of Prince & Phillis born in Charles Town South Carolina about 1767 [vol 17 p161] 1781 Sep 23 John Aleston, native of Orange Street, Kingston, Jamaica, born about 1736 [vol 17, p163] 1782 Nov 22 John Richards, a Black, born in Charlestown, South Carolina, about 1765 [vol 17] 1782 Mar 6 David Garrick born in St Kitts about 1753 [vol 17 p174] 1782 Mar 6 James Willock born in Antigua about 1763 [vol 17 p174] 1782 Mar 6 Jane [?] Willock born in Africa about 1766 [vol 17 p174] 1782 Dec 1 Kitty [or Billy?] Lewis, a black, born in the island of New Providence about 1760 [vol 17] 1782 Dec Peter Beaufort, a black, born in Charles Town, South Carolina, about 1766 [vol 17, p192] 1783 Feb 9 Isabella Twyne, born in Charles Town South Carolina about 17 [?] 1783 Mar Thomas Archer, born in the West Indies [vol 17] 1783 June Samuel Henry, born in Jamaica [vol 17] 1786 Sept Grace Callinder Andrew of Robert & [?] born at Bengali Sept 29 1776 [vol 17 p233] 1787 Nov 4 John Austin, of parents unknown, born on the coast of Africa, aged 60 years [vol 17] 1791 Feb 3 Deborah B[?] & Roxina a black of South Carolina [vol 17] 1791 Dec 12 Mary Redman a black woman about 20 years of age, born 1763 [vol 18 p392] 1796 Sep John Windsor, born on the coast of Africa, about 17 years old [vol 18 p15 1797 Apr 28 Caesar Roberts a black born in America about 31 years old [vol 18] 1797 Nov 7 Robert Alexander Barrett, a black aged 15, born on coast of Africa [vol 18] 1798 Nov 22 William Barnes … born in Jamaica, about 19 years of age [vol 18] 1800 Jun 26 Sarah Wilson, a black about 33 years of age [vol 18] 1801 Feb 11 Joseph Francis, born in the West Indies about 1762 [vol 18] 1801 June 5 William Philander a Black born in Demarara 1779 [vol 18] 1804 Oct 31 George Shields, a Black born in St Kitts in the West Indies about the year 1780 [vol 18, p317] 1805 Dec ? John Deasley a Black, born in Barbados in the year 1775 [vol 18, p343] 1814 Jun 24 Aurora Africanus, parents names unknown, abode workhouse, pauper [vol 20]

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St Mary-le-Strand 1783 Dec 22 Charles Harrison an African Negro about 26 years old [vol 4] 1784 Jan 14 Charles Harris an African Negro about 26 years old 1784 Apr 26 Francis Drake born at Antigua about 26 years ago [vol 4] 1786 Aug 12 Jim Davison, a negro born in South Carolina aged about 21 years [vol 4 p219]

St Marylebone 1749/50 Jan 19 John Dago, a negroman [vol 3] 1761 May 16 Violette Brown, a negro about 16 years old [vol 4] 1761 May 20 Ann Williams, a Negro, about 25 years old [vol 4] 1766 Mar 27 John Maxwell, a negro man of Mr McKenzie, about 25 years old [vol 5] 1767 Feb 22 John Sanders, a Negro, about 25 years old [vol 5] 1767 Oct 25 Barnaby Paragoza, of Bonaventure and Elizabeth, born 15th instant [vol 5] 1769 Nov 4 Elizabeth, a negro servant of Mr Boswell, Newman Street [vol 5] 1771 Apr 1 Ann Edwards, age 52, and Anthony Edwards, age 30, Black servants of Edward Fenwick [vol 5] 1771 Aug 22 Elizabeth Free, a Negro aged 22 years [vol 5] 1772 Oct 8 Maria Hester Ford, a Negro woman, age 24 years [vol 6] 1772 Oct 26 William Lawrence, a Negro, aged 20 years [vol 6] 1773 Jan 25 James Foster, a black about 17 years of age [vol 6] 1773 Jan 29 George Thomas, a Guiney Negro about 20 years of age [vol 6] 1773 Mar 7 William Lark, a black man aged 23 years [vol 6] 1773 Mar 7 Mary Watkins, a black woman aged 30 years [vol 6] 1773 May 27 William Simmond Barnes, a black man aged 21 [vol 6] 1773 Oct 26 John Ennes a black man about 22 years of age [vol 6] 1773 Dec 5 Charles Smith, a black man about 27 years of age [vol 6] 1774 Mar 6 Charles Cook, a black man about 60 years of age [vol 6] 1774 Apr 20 William Sykes, a black man about 35 years of age [vol 6] 1774 Apr 20 Jane Williams, a black woman about 34 years of age [vol 6] 1774 Jun 19 John Winsor, a black man about 22 years of age [vol 6] 1774 Dec 4 George Moy, a black, 17 years of age [vol 6] 1775 Jul 7 Thomas Offing, a black man, 30 years of age [vol 6] 1775 Jul 19 Robert Mannigault, a black man, 32 years of age [vol 6] 1775 Nov 1 Joseph Williams, a black man, 23 years of age [vol 6] 1776 Jan 15 George John Rippon, a Black Boy, 13 years old, servant to the Countess of Powis [vol 6] 1776 Jan 29 John Mathew Barnes, a black man, 18 years [vol 6] 1776 Mar 2 Sarah Smith, a black woman [vol 6] 1776 Mar 3 Joseph Blackwood, a black man 20 years of age [vol 6] 1777 Jan 18 Thomas Somerset, a Black Boy, about 13 years old [vol 6] 1777 Mar Joanna Frances, a black woman, 43 years [vol 6] 1777 Jun 12 Peter Wright, a black man, servant to Governor of Georgia, age 39 [vol 7] 1777 Jun 22 Elizabeth Archer, a black woman, 29 years of age [vol 7] 1777 Dec 31 Flora Elizabeth, a black woman, about 20 years old [vol 7] 1778 Jan 16 John James, a black man, about 21 years of age [vol 7] 1778 Dec 2 Elizabeth Woolesy, a mulatto, aged 19 [vol 7] 1779 Jan 2 John Morriss, a black man, age 27 [vol 7] 1779 Feb 23 George Kingston, a black man, 21 years old [vol 7] 1779 Mar 20 John Butler, a black man, 20 years of age [vol 7] 1779 Sep 9 James Yarran, a black man, age 25 [vol 7]

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1779 Nov 28 Charlotte, a black woman, 24 years of age [vol 7] 1780 Jan 19 George Watkins, a black, about 16 years of age [vol 7] 1780 Feb 9 John Francis Scott, a black Man, 27 years old [vol 7] 1780 Mar 1 Esther Drake, a black woman, about 30 years [vol 7] 1780 Mar 22 Mary Ann Lea, a black girl, aged 14 [vol 7] 1780 Jul 16 Carlo (?) Webb, aged 22 [vol 7] 1781 Mar 28 Thomas Smith, a Mulatto Man, 23 years of age [vol 7] 1781 Apr 22 Thomas, an adult Black Man [vol 7] 1781 Oct 7 George Nibbs, a black man, 30 years of age [vol 7] 1782 Mar 21 Sarah Hamer a black Woman, 15 years of age [vol 7] 1782 Mar 28 John Horsdell a black Man, 22 years of age [vol 7] 1782 Dec George Williams a black Man aged 19 years [vol 8] 1782 Dec 25 Mary Ford a black Woman, 18 years of age [vol 8] 1783 Jan Clarissa Harlow a black Woman, 34 years old [vol 8] 1783 Feb 12 Edward Lewis, a black Man, 15 years old [vol 8] 1783 Mar 5 Frances Bastina a black Woman 20 years old [vol 8] 1783 Apr 13 James Bailey a black aged 23 years [vol 8] 1783 Jun 6 John Malben a black Man aged 29 years [vol 8] 1784 Jan 14 Ann Delaford, of Black Parents, about 10 years [vol 8] 1784 Apr 18 John Webb, a black man, 17 yrs of age [vol 8] 1785 Jan Henry Demande (a Black man 22 years old) [vol 8] 1786 Jan William Howe a Black man 20 years old [vol 8] 1786 Mar 26 John Brown, a Black man 25 years old [vol 8] 1786 Sep 6 John Davison [?] a negro, born in South Carolina, aged about 21 years [vol 8] 1787 Apr 1 George Gascoyne ( a black man about 20 years old) [vol 8] 1787 Apr 4 John Reed (a mulatto youth about 14 years old) [vol 8] 1787 May 27 Diane Tabin (a black woman 15 years old) [vol 8] 1787 Aug 22 Hannah Nixon (a black woman 30 years old) [vol 8] 1788 Mar 14 John Himbell Bell (a black aged 22 years) [vol 9] 1788 Nov 26 Jane Hurne (a mulatto woman 20 years old) [vol 9] 1789 Jun 19 Gilbert Francklin, a Black man [vol 9] 1789 Aug 14 William Taylor, a Black Man 21 years of age [vol 9] 1789 Oct 14 Catherine James, a Black woman 25 years of age [vol 9] 1790 Jan 15 William Thomas (a Black Man 20 years of age) [vol 9] 1790 Jan 30 William Menes (a Black of the Island of Barbadoes) aged 20 [?][vol 9] 1790 Feb 7 Frances Houd [?] a Mulatto Woman 21 years old [vol 9] 1790 Feb 24 Mary Campbell (a Black woman 60 years of age) [vol 9] 1790 Jun 8 John Ludlow a Black, aged 14 years [vol 9] 1790 Aug 25 Clarinda Loundes (a black woman) 32 years of age [vol 9] 1791 May 1 Jacob Campbell (a Black Native of Jamaica) born July 1767 [vol 9] 1791 May 6 Ann Steuart (a Black woman 50 years of age) [vol 9] 1791 May 13 Lucy Milcah (a Black woman), 50 years of age [vol 9] 1791 Oct 30 Edward Fuhr (a Black Youth) aged 16 years [vol 9] 1791 Nov 16 Penelope Pinnick (a Black Woman) aged 28 years [vol 9] 1792 Apr 27 Diana Taylor a Black woman aged 35 years [vol 9] 1792 Aug 5 Robert Borough a Black Boy aged 11 years [vol 9] 1793 June 16 Joseph Dixon a black youth aged 16 yrs [vol 9] 1793 June 16 Samuel Johnson a black youth aged 15 yrs [vol 9] 1793 Dec 8 Maria Jackson a black woman 23 yrs old [vol 10] 1793 Dec 25 Mary Collier a black woman age 20 yrs [vol 10] 1794 Mar 7 Margaret Chapman a Mulatto aged 19 years [vol 10] 1794 Mar 7 Elizabeth Mary Anna Chapman her Child, born 25 Jan [vol 10] 1794 Jul 2 William Morgan a Black Man aged 23 years [vol 10] 1794 Aug 20 George Jackson, a Black Man aged 30 years [vol 10]

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1796 Nov 16 Elizabeth Gordon, a black woman aged 32 years [vol 10] 1796 Nov 25 John Ferguson, a black man, aged 30 years [vol 10] 1796 Dec 4 Elizabeth Kaylett, a black woman, aged 20 years [vol 10] 1797 Jan 22 James Tucker a Black Man aged about 20 years [vol 10] 1797 Feb 1 Ann Read a Black Woman aged 55 years [vol 10] 1797 Feb 1 Ellenor Read a Black Woman aged 19 years [vol 10] 1797 Feb 1 John Liss a Black Man aged 20 years [vol 10] 1797 Jun 11 Charlotte Lestly aged five and a half years, born in East Indies [vol 10] 1797 Sep 4 Thomas Williams, an African Black aged 16 yrs [vol 10] 1798 Feb 14 Ann Carvell a Black woman aged 16 years [vol 10] 1798 Feb 28 John Butler, a Black Man aged 24 yrs [vol 10] 1798 Sep 6 John Yewman, a Black Man aged 18 years [vol 10] 1798 Nov 21 Charles Steere [?] commonly called Freeman, a black, aged 22 [vol 10] 1799 Feb 10 Thomas Chelsea a Black aged 20 years [vol 10] 1799 Mar 1 James Smith a Black Man aged 25 years [vol 10] 1799 Jul 26 Gilbert Battess a Black aged 18 years [vol 10] 1799 Aug 28 John Philipps a Black man aged 34 years [vol 11] 1799 Aug 28 Philip Slimpson a Black Man aged 30 years [vol 11] 1799 Oct 26 Sarah Williams, a Black Woman age 15 years [vol 11] 1800 Sep 28 Catherine Burtell, a black woman aged 28 yrs [vol 11] 1800 Sep 28 Susanna Jones, a black woman aged 24 yrs [vol 11] 1800 Dec John Harris, a black man aged 81 (?) [vol 11] 1801 Feb 13 William Edwards a Black Man aged 22 years [vol 11] 1802 Sep Mary Ann Call, a black woman, aged 35 [vol 11] 1802 Sep 6 John Ximenes, a Black man aged 22 …. [more] [vol 11] 1803 Jan 26 Johanna Elizabeth Lemmers a West Indian aged 10 years [vol 11] 1803 May 1 Thomas Daniels a Black man aged 30 years [vol 11] 1803 Sep 30 Edward Prince, a Black Man, aged 26 years [vol 11] 1804 Oct 6 George Thomas a Black Man [vol 11] 1805 May 26 Joseph Ellwood son of Jeremiah and Mary a Black Boy aged 6 years [vol 11] 1806 Jan 1 William James Turner a Black Boy aged 15 years [vol 12] 1806 Apr 3 Thomas Jones an Adult Negro aged about 15 years [vol 12] 1808 Jan 22 Louisa Ball – a black woman aged 18 [vol 12] 1809 Jun 11 Amelia Mahomed, father William Dean Mahomed, mother Jane [vol 12] 1810 Jul 13 John Aberdeen Adams (a Black aged 29 years) [vol 12] 1811 Jan 6 Henry Edwin Mahomed, father Dean Mahomed, mother Jane [vol 13] 1811 Oct Fanny Wordie Francis, a black woman, 29 yrs [vol 13] 1812 Mar Alexander Antonio a black boy aged about 11 yrs [vol 13] 1813 Nov 28 Ann Shaw, a Gintoo by Birth, about 24 years old [vols 13, p269] 1817 Aug 13 John William, son of William Davidson and Sarah, St Marylebone, Mechanic, born 14 April [vol 18] 1819 May 2 Duncan Alexander Byron, son of James Thomas William Coaxley Percy Byron White Davidson and Sarah, St Marylebone, born 3 April [vol 20] 1823 May 23 Catharine Sealey, an East Indian. Born at Bencoolen 1793 [vol 24] 1828 May 8 Henry Ellis of the Cape of Good Hope, born May 1814 [vol 29, p67] 1830 Jul 8 Charles Henry Bain, an Adult of Colour, a Native of New Providence. Said to be Born about 1801 [vol 31, p82] 1843 Sep 17 Eliza Ann Ching, dau of William and Ann, 16 Manchester Square, Police Officer [Chinese?] [vol 44, p68] 1844 Mar 15 Leang William Afah, son of Chinese parents unknown, about 12 years old [vol 45, p18]

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1863 Jun 1 John, son of Ramsing, a Hindoo [vol 64, p30] 1896 Oct 13 Muhammad Hyder Abdul-Ali, son of Khan Bahadur Yusaf-Ali and Meryeth his wife of Surat, India; born 25 August 1862 [vols 73, p150]

St Paul, Covent Garden 1751 Nov 13 Thomas Ireland an Indian Boy about 10 years of age, servant to Captain Wray [vol 4, p98] 1757 Feb 7 William Augustine, a negro [vol 4, p122] 1763 Jan 20 George Alexander a black about 17 years of age [vol 4, p148] 1763 Feb 9 Thomas Samuel, a black servant to Mrs Macklin, aged 26 years [vol 4, p148] 1763 Feb 13 Elizabeth Ann a black girl aged about 16 years of age daughter of Namell 1763 Apr 18 Tuba, servant to Thomas Hearne of about 8 years, born in the East Indies [vol 4, p149] 1763 Apr 18 Seabean, servant to Thomas Hearne, aged about 15 years, born in the East Indies [vol 4, p149] 1763 Dec 11 Elizabeth Wright a black woman aged about 24 years [vol 4] 1764 Aug 1 John Richards, a black aged about 16 years [vol 4 p156] 1767 May Thomas [?] a black, servant of Richard Collingwood [?] about 17 years [vol 4] 1768 Mar 25 Scipio John Bland a negro boy belonging to Rev. James Lattersall , aged 11 years [vol 5] 1768 Nov 17 Catherine, a black woman aged about 24 years, servant to Mrs Harvey [vol 5, p11] 1769 Feb 13 James Long aged about 18 years, a Black [vol 5, p12] 1769 Oct 3 Susannah Connor, a black aged 15 years, servant to Mrs Connor [vol 5, p16] 1771 Jan 18 Mary Magdalin, Negro Girl aged about 17 years [vol 5, p23] 1771 Apr 6 Henry King, a black man aged about 22 years [vol 5, p24] 1771 May 29 Frances Willick, about 26 years of age, a black woman servant to Mr Alexander Willick [vol 5, p25] 1771 Jun 4 Elizabeth Fellow, a black woman aged about 25 years [vol 5, p25] 1773 Mar 8 William Morris, a black man, servant to Doctor Glenister, aged about 18 years [vol 5, p35] 1773 Oct John Adamson a black aged 18 years and nine months a servant to Sir Willim Middleton [vol 5 p38] 1776 Feb 23 Sarah Goff, a negro aged about 14 years [vol 5] 1785 Jan 1 George [?] a black boy, aged about fourteen [vol 5] 1804 May 6 Henry Myers, a black boy aged about 16 yrs [vol 6]

St Stephen’s, Rochester Row 1861 Nov 20 Samuel John (an adult Hindoo), Hindustani name Ram-sami, son of Goddimah and Hachimah (Hindoo names which it was difficult to write in English), 9 Ship Court [Horseferry Road], Huckster [vol 1]

1861 Nov 20 Samuel, son of the above Samuel Ram-sami and Julia Armond, 9 Ship Court, Huckster [vol 1]

1861 Nov 20 Mary, daughter of the above Samuel Ram-sami and Julia Armond, 9 Ship Court, Huckster [vol 1]

Wells Street Scotch Church

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1773 July 26 That James Gray, aged eighteen, a native of Calcutta with the East Indies (brought to Great Britain by George Gray Esquire) was baptised on 26th July 1773 is attested by James Reid

Baptismal register, St Stephen Rochester Row, 1861

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4. PARISH REGISTERS: MARRIAGES

St Anne’s Soho 1821 Apr 25 Hirza Abdallah and Mary McCallesteur, both of this parish, by Banns [vol 24]

St George’s Chapel, Mayfair 1744 Oct 11 Mr Joseph Abdela Walker from China and Mrs Mary Worrall of St Saviour’s, Southwark [baptised at St George's Chapel, 9 Oct 1744];. [vol 2]

St George Hanover Square 1788 Nov 1 Francis Wenham of Nevis in the West Indies and Anna Williams of this parish [vol 18, p601]

St James Piccadilly 1766 Nov 27 Joseph Alexander of this parish and Charlotte Nisbit of the parish of St Marylebone, married by licence from the Archbishop of Canterbury, by Thomas Skinner. Signed their names; witnesses: Geo Griffiths, Wm Russell [vol 32]

Alexander, ‘a black’, was indicted at the Old Bailey for perjury in getting a licence to marry a minor - Charlotte, the daughter of Robert Nesbit, stone mason, was only 16. She had been at a French school, and Alexander gave her nightly lessons ‘to compleat her’! He came over from France with the Duke de Nivernois, and was a servant to the Venetian ambassador. Two other black men, one was a fellow servant, gave evidence of his good character: Bonaventie Minioe and Barnaby Ferrey. [See OBSP, 1767, No II]

1827 May 31 William Cuffay and Mary Ann Manwell [vol 40]

1834 Dec 12 Deen Mahommed and Mary Ann Malthus [vol 40]

St Margaret’s Westminster 1758 Dec 17: Charles Ignatius Sancho and Ann Osborne [vol 52]

1918 Sept 11 Louisa Maria Countee and James Forrest [vol 87] Louis Maria Countee, daughter of Nelson Countee, Non-Conformist minister

St Martin-in-the-Fields 1701 Jul 26 Judas Testimony Hutchinson and Elizabeth Pompeio, both of this parish by banns [vol 10]

1816 Jun 3 William Davidson and Sarah Lane [vol 53]

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1819 May 24 William Cuffay and Ann Marshall [vol 54]

1825 Feb 12 William Cuffay and Ann Broomhead [vol 56]

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5. PARISH REGISTERS: BURIALS

St Anne, Soho 1756 Mar 26 Alexander (a Black), Compton St (?) [vol 42]

St Clement Danes 1703 Nov 17 Mary Nixon a black woman bur [vol 6] 1704 Dec 16 Exsar [?] Clement a negro about six years old [vol 6] 1706 Apr 21 Anthony Tips a negro's child buried [vol 6] 1741 Aug 25 Coffee a poor man found dead [vol 9]

St George Hanover Square 1783 Jun 24 Straffon a Black (m) [vol 91] 1802 Feb Black Man Unknown [vol 92] 1803 Nov A Black Man [vol 92] 1827 Oct 6 John Muguma Piccadilly, 26 years [vol 93]

St James Piccadilly 1694 Apr 12 Peter, a black [vol 1] 1730 Mar 21 a Black from Ld Burlington [vol 21] 1743 Apr 24 Flavey, a black W [vol 21] 1801 Jan 22 Thomas (a blackman) M [vol 22] 1801 Jan 25 Cham-Kin [?], a black [vol 22]

St James, Sussex Gardens, Paddington 1748 Oct 18 Jack Sam, a Negro, servant to Capt Richards, that died in this parish

St John Smith Square 1821 Jun 22 John Lewis Friday, Grenadier Guards Hospital, aged 27 years [vol 56]

John Lewis Friday. 1st Foot Guards. A Drummer. (2nd Battalion). Born Massambasse/x, Africa. Enlisted: aged 29yrs, 5/7&3/4” tall. Black hair. A Labourer. Black complexion. Enlisted 15/02/1821. Previously served 33rd Foot 13/05/1813-24/05/1820, incl. Waterloo. Died 18/06/1821. Source/s: Grenadier Guards Description Book 1803-1822, R154. NB. A Private on the Waterloo Roll, his Waterloo Medal was sold by Glendinings in April 1911. Daniel Defoe wrote Robinson Crusoe in 1719, however, 'Friday' may well be a transliteration of his Ga (southern Ghana peoples) name, where 'Friday' is 'Kwame', or Kofi. [information supplied by John Ellis]

St Margaret’s Westminster 1624 Oct 6 Lattelira, a blackamoor [vol 24]; Memorials of St Margaret's church Westminster 1539-1660, p 531 [F929.3] 1689/90 Feb 27 Peter Harris a Negro (p.) [vol 8] 1692 May 6 Cursolo a Negro [vol 8] 1694 Jul 26 Titus a Negro [vol 8] 1697/8 Mar 17 Alberto a blackmore [vol 8] 1716 Aug 2 John, a Negro servant to Mr Robert Cross [vol 9] 1780 Dec 17 Ignatius Sancho [vol 12]

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1799 Feb 18 A Spanish Indian, name unknown [vol 14] 1805 Sep 22 Mary Ann Sancho [vol 14]

St Martin-in-the-Fields 1571 Sep 27 Margaret, a Moore [vol 1] 1662 Nov 25 Georgius Blackmoore [vol 4] 1663 Apr 23 Samuell Blackmoore [vol 4] 1679 Oct 8 William Consaull [?], a black [vol 6] 1680 July 29 William More a Black [vol 6] 1711 Apr 25 Scipio, a Black [vol 10] 1729 Apr 15 Minton W, a Black [vol 12, p123v]] 1731 Nov 4 Margaret, a Black W [vol 12, p176] 1741 Dec 23 Unknown Black Man [vol 14] 1743 Feb 19 Coffee, a negro [vol 14] 1759 Mar 13 A Black Boy buried [vol 15] 1775 May 29 Jonathan a black m[an][vol 115] 1775 Sep 30 Thomas, a black m[an] 1810 Nov 5 Richard James Said, a native of Africa, aged 19 [buried in crypt: monumental inscriptions, Survey of London, vol 20, p46, no 99] (not in burial register for Nov/Dec 1810; also in J McMaster, A History of the Royal Parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields, 942.137, p132) 1814 June 7 Lucy Africanus, 5 months, Workhouse [vol 117] 1828 May 13 Aurora Africanus, Workhouse, age 32 [vol 124, p11, Registry of Burials in Camden Town]

St Marylebone 1712/3 Feb 7 A black from Lady Littleton [vol 2] 1746 Jun 14 Anthony, a Black [vol 3] 1774 (9?) Jan 12 a black woman [vol 6] 1797 Mar 13 Harriet, a Black Woman [vol 234] 1803 Jun 30 A black boy [vol 235]

St Paul Covent Garden 1672 April 6 Thomas, a blackmore [vol 2] 1669 July 22 Clemen, a blackamore [vol 2] 1725 Oct A negro from nurse Hodgson's [vol 3] 1737 May 16 Thomas Chest, a blackamore [vol 3] 1738 May 27 Thomas John Christmas, a blackamoor [vol 3] 1764 Jan 13 William January a black man [vol 4] 1760 Aug 28 Christ widow a black woman [vol 4 p332] 1760 Aug 31 Joseph, a black man [vol 4]

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St Anne, Soho 1730 Feb 10: Copy of the last Will & Testament of Mr Cornwall Vincens of the Town of St Johns in the Island of Antigua, Surgeon – Taken from an Attested [copy] sent to the Parish of St Anne Westminster by Mr John Dunn Junr of the Town of St Johns in the Island of Antigua Agent for the said Parish of St Anne.

I give and bequeath unto my dear and well beloved wife, Martha Vincens, £30 a year Antigua money from the rents of my estate for her life, and after her death this £30 is to be given to the Poor of the Parish of St Anne’s Westminster, for ever, being the Place of my Nativity. I also give to my wife

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my 2 Negroes named Quashee & Sarah. I give to my godson Frazier Thibow, the son of Lewis Thibow of St John’s, Antigua, shopkeeper, my Negro Boy named Quamma for ever. I give £20 Antigua Money for the schooling of poor children of St Johns. I give to William Lenine, the son of John Lenine of this Island, Mariner, £20. I give & my Mind & Will is that my Negro Woman named Teresa do hold and enjoy her freedom from the time of my Death for ever. My will is that my Executors do sell & dispose of all the rest of my Negro Slaves, and the rest of my real estate in Antigua I give to the poor of St Anne Westminster for ever. I appoint George Jennings of Antigua Esq & Anthony Garrett of Antigua, Carpenter, executors. Witnesses: William Hillhouse, Samuel Brooke [A2266a]

Cornwall Vincent [sic] was baptised at the Huguenot Church of Le Carree, Berwick St, on 18 Oct 1691. He was the son of Jean Jacques Vincens, master surgeon, and Jeanne de Beziers. Godfathers were Mr Henry Cornwall and Mr Guilbert Nicolas. Godmother was Anne Layt.

1730 Feb 20 William Hillhouse, Planter, of Antigua appeared before the Hon Edward Byam Esq, Lieutenant Governor of Antigua, and swore that he was personally present & saw Cornwall Vincens sign and seal this will [A2266a]

1730-90 Abstract of transactions relating to land in Antigua belonging to the poor of St Anne. Sometime before 1742 appointed John Dunn, then of Antigua, Attorney, to be their agent. He took possession of a third part of land situated in the Parade or Thames Street, in the town of St John, Antigua for the use of the poor. In about 1747 Ann Martin, widow of John Martin (who sold the land to Old Vincens to whom Cornwall was heir), recovered one third part of that third part by action of dower, which on her death reverted to St Anne. The remaining two thirds were let out to tenants. 15 Nov 1757 St Anne’s appointed Thomas Warner Esq & John Dunn their attorneys with special powers to grant leases. 1758 a lease granted to Charles [Martin] for 21 years from 25 Mar 1757 at £9 pa, and when Ann Martin died he was to have her third at £3 pa. She died in June or July 1768. About 1754 or 55 Andrew Lesley Esq (who had purchased life interest of Matha Vincens) surrendered it to John Dunne for use of poor (1 messuage or tenement, ‘the same being much decayed and not worth repairing on so precarious a term as her life). About July 1764 Mr Charles Martin failed & his lease was sold, when he owed a year and a half’s rent. Paid by Mr Harry Alexander executor to R Gray (who bought it). 24 Mar 1765 a lease granted by Thomas Warner to John Dunn of land surrendered by Mr Lesley for 21 years at 10s pa for first 7 years, then £4 pa for next 7 years & £7 pa for last 7 years. 1 Sep 1766 Mr Dunn met Messrs Wood & Agar, Churchwardens and produced account. He also told them he would not return to Antigua any more, so recommended Messrs James Butler & Thomas Bell Merchants should take over power of attorney. They agreed, but later Thomas Bell said he was going to quit the island & Mr Butler was dead. Dec 1768 Messrs Samuel Sedgewick & John Scotland appointed attorneys with Thomas Warner Esq. 17 Aug 1769 ‘Great part of the Town of St John was Consumed by Fire and Buildings or Erections on the ground let on Lease to Charles Martin were destroyed’.1769 Jul 26: Copy of letter from Samuel Sedgewick, Antigua. Mrs Elizabeth Gray had the lease (not Mr Alexander). She has promised to pay debt. 1771 Jan 8:Copy of letter from Samuel Sedgewick, Antigua. St Anne’s has asked him to ensure no encroachment on land, and that he would take care of the materials left on the premises after the fire. ‘You must understand that the house was extremely old & entirely built of wood so that it was entirely consumed’. I have

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agreed with a gentleman here for the rent of the land as it stood for 2 years at £12 pa. He has since erected a house on it – can I let it on 11 year lease. 1771 May 30: Many letters have been sent to Samuel Sedgewick but he hasn’t replied or sent money. The rent for the house in North Street let to Mr Dunn has been paid to 1775. Lease will expire in 1786. 1784: Mr Dunn paid 9 years rent: £51. Further payments 1785, 1786. He then quitted the premises. Debts are due for that part of the estate belonging to St Anne’s which is in Thames Street. George Mitchell took over lease from Mrs Gray in 1770. 1787 money paid. [A2266a]

1785 Dec 1: Letter from John Dunn, Tannockside, Scotland, to Mr David Salter, Hollan St, St Anne’s. Who is St Anne’s attorney in Antigua? I have had a letter from Langford Lovell Esq, my attorney there, who will get the house I built on the land put into tenantable repair as soon as possible, but he says lumber is very scarce. [A2266a]

St George Hanover Square 1763 onwards: Rate Books: Dominicus Negri resident in Berkeley Square

1782 Jun 27: Guardians of Poor Minute Book: ordered that Charlotte Rose, a black child, be sent to nurse … her mother Mary Rose [C911, pp228, 244]. 14 May 1783: Father named as Mr Rich, now purser of the ‘Camilla’ at Portsmouth [C912, p42]

1783 Apr 2: Guardians of Poor Minute Book: Edward Jones, a Black Man and a servant, not being able to give security for the maintenance of his bastard child by Sarah Millicent [C911, p552]

1783 Dec 24: Directors of Poor Minute Book: Keram (a Lascar) admitted [C912]

1783 Dec 24: Directors of Poor Minute Book: Mary London (a Black Woman) for her child by Henry Yorke 2/6 [C912]

St James Piccadilly 1767 Nov 23: ‘Complaint … that a Negro Girl was kept at the George in Shugg Lane for publick shew’. [Petty Sessions, D1846, p44]

1767 Nov 30: ‘Mr Lafflin at the Sign of the George in Shugg Lane attended aggreeable to Notice sent him for that purpose and being called declared that the Negro Girl which had been kept at his House for publick shew was gone away therefrom and upon submitting himself promised never to offend in like manner’. [Petty Sessions, D1846]

1786 Apr 21: John Ivyman (James Seymour??) a black, 25, born in Tilicatary (?) East Indies – apprehended by John Jones in Broad Street, Wednesday about half past 6 begging; Henry Jones (James?), 20, Black born in Calcutta brought to the watch house by Webber from Berwick St where he was lying about half past 11 at night [Petty Sessions, D1848, p127]

1786 May 3: William Powell whipped and sent to Committee for Relief of Black Poor [Petty Sessions, D1848, p134]

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1786 Sep 16: Petty Sessions: Ann Smith, born in Dominica in the West Indies, apprehended in Norris Street standing with a barrow on the pavement [D1848, p179]

1787 Jan 20: Petty Sessions: John Gibbs a black aged 24 years lives with – Holder Esq who lodges at Woods Hotel Covent Garden, apprehended in Princes Court, Duke St, with many others, for dancing [D1848, p201]

1787 Aug 3: Petty Sessions: committed a Black [D1848, p241]

St Margaret, Westminster 1778 Nov 10 : one shilling paid to ‘A Poor Black Woman’, in ‘Account of Money Paid to Poor’ (1777-78) [E loz 1176]

1797 Nov 3: Letter re girl sent from Westminster workhouse to Burley Cotton Works, Lancs. ‘Sophia the Black Girl is greatly improved in her industry’ [E3338]

1798 Jan 15: Letter re girl sent from workhouse to Burley Cotton Works, Lancs. ‘Sophia Pierce the black girl left Burley for London ten days ago – We paid her carriage and gave her money for her expences – Her fellow servants complained of her becoming sulky and indolent, and that she lent them no assistance – Sophia did not choose to be employed in the Cotton Works, so I recommended it to her to return to London’ [E3338]

St Martin-in-the-Fields 1709 Settlement examination of Elizabeth Dennis [F5003, p52].

Elizabeth Dennis says she is the wife of James Dennis, a Black. She was married to him at Knightsbridge 22 years ago last October, by the name of Elizabeth Thistlewaite. Her said husband then lived with Lord Chancellor Jefferys, with whom he had lived about two years before she married, and my Lord Chancellor Jeffreys then lived in St James's Park in St Margaret's Westminster, and her said husband then was a servant to his Lordship and now he lives with my Lord Windsor at Chelsea.

Sir Thomas Jefferys brought her husband from Spain and lodged with the Chancellor

The mark X of Elizabeth Dennis

1710 Feb 2: Settlement examination: Jane Jones [F5004 p231]

Jane Jones at the Angell in Burleigh Street says upon Oath that she know Elizabeth Praro, a Niger, lately dec'd and her husband Peter Praro, a Niger, and she says, when they were married they lodged in Denmark Court, and she has heard they were married at the Fleet, and that severall of the neighbours in Denmark Court was at their marriage, which was about a year and a half ago. She says, that said Peter Praro was a Seaman and she does not know or ever heard, that the said Peter Praro was a housekeeper or hired Servant, she says

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she has heard that the said Peter Praro was borne in Jamaica. She says upon her Oath that the said Elizabeth was brought to bed of a Niger male Child in Denmark Court at Mr. Nolands house in the parish of St Paul Covent Garden, about 4 months ago, which Child was baptized in Covent Garden and named Peter

[signed] Jan Jones

[note:] Removed to Covent Garden

1713 May: Settlement examination: 'John Shannon a tawny' [F5007 p143]

1713 March 11: Settlement examination: Mary Phillips [F5008 p248]

Mary Phillips, a black at nurse Lockharts in Hartshorn Lane sayth she was never married, she sayth she was a Servant to Capt. Ramsy at Mrs Robinsons house in Burr Street, St Catharins and lived there with him and his Lady by the space of one whole year, and from thence for said Master, went to Westminster but did not stay there above a half a year, she sayth she was never a year together in Service in one place since she came from Burr Street. She sayth she was baptized in St James church, she sayth she was brought to bed at nurse Lockarts on last Wednesday was three weeks, of a Male child named Samuell Mingo and she sayth that Samuell Mingo, a Black, Trumpeter and Servant to my Lord Denbigh in Greek Street did obtain the Carnall knowledge of her body and did begett the said child and that the said Samuell Mingo and no other person is the father of her said child

[Signed] X [the mark of Mary Phillips]

1713 August 6: Settlement examination: James How; Francis Savier [F5009 p211]

James How and Francis Savier, two blackmen, being yesterday taken up by Richard Barker, Constable of the parish of St Martin in the Fields, begging in the said parish, they confess they were begging as aforesaid, and say that they are Christians, and were born in America and were brought to England about seven months ago by the Mermaid Gally, Capt. Hansom command and the said ship anchored at Blackwall, London and they came in a Boat from Anchor at Blackwall and landed near Dowgate hill, London and went to Dowgate Hill and lodged at an Alehouse there two nights, they now lodge in Crown Court, in St Giles in the Fields

1714 Settlement examination, 30 Jan: John Mason [F5010 p67]

John Mason, a black aged 30, came to Engl'd about 24 years ago. He was Servant to Mr. Hall, in Fanchurch Street a year and a half, no wages, he was baptized when he lived there. He afterward served Mr Green, a merch' in Rude Lane a year and half at 50s p. ann.

1714 Settlement examination: Jane Howard [F5010 p19]

Jane Howard, aged 22, was never married, is a lewd woman, a Knightwaker, has had Bastards and falsely swore a child to Mr Thornycroft in the Strand. Upon investigation of Nurse Lewis and

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others, for which she was kept in Bridewell 7 or 8 months and was not with child, she came from the West Indias about 12 year ago and pretends she was a servant to Mr Dean, a pewterer of Charing Cross above a year to the Bookseller against him.

1717 Settlement examination: Elizabeth Chamberlain married Andrew English a Black with no settlement in England; he is now dead. [F5012 p195]

1719 Settlement examination, [Dec?]: James Hasson, at Turk; keeps house at Orange Ct, has for several years [F013 p287]

1720 Settlement examination: Thomas May [F5014 p84]

Thomas May aged 45 removed from St James Westminster, lately lodged at the Kings Arms Tavern in Pall Mall, says he never married, he is a black, has been in England about 35 years, never kept house, never was bound apprentice, he was servant to Mr Rigby Blewposts Taverne in the Haymarket 10 years of and on, and lodged in the house and had meat and drink was waiter only, had no wages, came from the house about 7 years ago, never was a whole year together in any service since. He was a servant before Mr. Phillip Constable in Strutton Street about 15 months together, as footman at 5 llg and wages and left that service about 13 years ago, never was a year in service since.

1721 Settlement examination: Henry Mundax, age 23, negro; brought by Capt Cooke from Jamaica, bapt. at St George's church; sold to Henry Richards, glassmaker

1722 Oct: settlement examination: Mary & Christian Hanowell [F5016 p2]

Mary Hanowell aged about 27 years, lodged last at the Sign of the Ship in Rosemary Lane, beyond Tower Hill, now at Nurse Flinns, saith she is the Wife of Christian Hanowell at the Fleet about 2 years ago, he is no trade, never kept house, he was a servant to Secretary Varnom by Soho Square, saith they brought him up from a boy, he left him about 5 year ago. Since that was a servant to Capt Toiter in Scotland yard and had £6 pa wages and lived in that service about 3 or 4 year. He is now gone to Jamaica. Has no children is now in Labour, they are both Blackamoors.

NB - was never marry'd

1723 Dec: settlement examination: John Marchendall [F5016 p501]

John Marchendall, aged 20, lodging in Swallow Street at the Sign of the Goat in St James parish, saith he was never married, never kept house. Says he was a yearly servant to one Mr. Hide at the Coach and Horses in Old Bond Street was a helper in the stables, 13 months, had diet and lodging but no wages only what money his master pleased to give him. Saith his master gave him 10s when he came away, says he came away 6 months. He is a Blackamore.

1723 28 May: Settlement examination: Lucey Bunger [F5016 p225]

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Lucey Bunger, aged 33 years, late Servant to Madam Wallis, in Clarges Street, saith she was never married, never kept house, has lived with the Said Madam Wallis ever since she was five years old. She saith that her Mrs [Mistress] brought her from the Indies. Saith that her Mrs lived in the Loudon Parish in the County of Essex three years and that she lived with her there and then her said Mrs came to live in Clarges Street and has lived there about 7 months and Said that she never received any Wages nor was never Hired by the year. Saith that she is now with Child and that one Peter Wallis son to her said Mrs had the Carnal knowledge of her body aforesaid in her Bed Chamber upon the Bed about 9 months ago and Severall times after. Saith that he and no other Man is the True and only Father of the Male Child she was Delivered on Sunday Morning last being the 26 of this Instant and Christened John.

The mark of Lucey Bu.

1723 13 July: Settlement examination: William Smith [F5016 p308]

William Smith, aged 29 years, Servant to the Duchess of Buckloon near the Cocoa Tree in Pall Mall, saith that he very well knew George Barnett a Black, who was a servant to the Lord Lansdown in St James Square in St James Parish several years as he hath heard and saith they my Lord then lodged in Pall Mall but sent him to his house in Kingsington in Kingsington parish about 3 years ago to attend his Children and that he the said George Barnett continued there as a servant for my Lord's Children from Xmas last was 3 years to June following

[signed] Wm. Smith

[note:] She was removed to Kensington upon his oath

1727 May: Settlement examination of Bersheba Felix [F5020, p270]

Bersheba Felix, a Black, aged 24 years, now in the workhouse, saith she was never married, never kept house, nor an apprentice, was born in Jamaica, was brought from thence when about three yuears of age and made a present to Sr. Charles Wager, who lived in Channel Row, Westminster, with whom she lived near 14 yrs. but never hired to him as a servant nor never lived in service as a hired servant. Saith she is gr[ea]t with child and that one David Watts, late a footman to a gent in Tavistock Street, had Carnal knowledge of her Body at one Mrs Asa in Angell Court, Drury Lane, about 2 years ago and frequently since till within those four months past and that he, the said David Watts, is the true and only father thereof and no man else.

1729 Feb: Settlement examination: Susannah Prince [F5023 p136; see also F5029 p273 (1737)]

Susannah Prince aged about 20 years lodging at Mr Rich's in York Buildings in this parish saith she is the wife of James Prince to whom she was married at the Fleet about 4 years ago, that he is no trade, never an apprentice, he is a Blackmoor and was born at Jamaica and

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was brought over to England by one Major Cosley with whom he lived 36 years and that the said Major lodged at one Mrs Deans at Charing Cross where he lived witht he said Major Cosley about 4 years before marriage and then the Major went to Scotland and the Deponent's husband with him and when he came to England lodged at Mrs Deans aforesaid and that he had £6 pa wages, diet and lodging and lived in the same service till within these 6 months past, hath no children but is now great with child

1731 Morat Nicholas, age c40, born East Indies, married wife Ann c3 yrs ago at St Martin-in-Fields [F5024, p170] see also baptism St Anne, 1709

173? Settlement examination: John Osburn [F5026, p184]

John Osburn aged about Sixty years, lodging at one Mr Douglas a Trumpeter belonging to the fourth Troop of Horse Guards at Marybone, Saith he was never Married or an Apprentice, That he was born at Guinea in Africa and came to England about the latter end of Queen Ann's Wars. Saith he never kept House or rented ten pounds by the year or paid any Parish Taxes. That he was a yearly hired servant to the said Mr Douglas then living in Coventry Court in this parish with whom he lived there about thirteen months which Service he left before Mr Douglas left his House in Coventry Street and never lived as a yearly hired Servant since.

[Note:] Removed from Mary Le Bone

1736 Jun 18: Settlement examination of Margaret Jenando [F5028, p110]

Margaret Jenando aged about Sixty years on, now lodging at one Mrs Nouse, in Bedford Bury, saith that she is the widow of Robert Jenando who died about twenty years since, to whom she was married at the Fleet about forty years since. Saith he was born in Guinea and was page to the Duke of Devonshire from the age of Six years to the age of Nighteen years when this Examinant married him, and about half a year afterwards at the house lately called Devonshire House and then to fore Bartlet House. Saith she was a yearly hired servant to one Mr Hipwell in New Street whom she served upwards of a year and had Three pounds by the year wages which she left about 8 or 9 years ago. The[n] she lived with one Mrs Elver in Bedford Bury a year and one quarter at four pounds a year wages, which she left three years ago and never lived a year together in any one service since. Saith she hath had no children living for several years

The mark of Margaret Jenando

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St Martin in the Fields settlement examination of Margaret Jenando, 1736

1737? James Prince a negro given as a present to Major Cossly of Vintners in Kent as an infant [F5029 p273]

1741 Settlement Examination of Sarah Friday [F5033, p288]

Sarah Friday, aged 23 years, in the workhouse, saith that she is the wife of Peter Friday, that she was married to him at a private house in the Fleet 6 years ago and hath no child by him, that her said husband is a Negro, was born in Jamaica as she hath heard him say and was brought to England to Councellor Monk, to whom he was a servant, when she married him, never was bound an apprentice, kept any house, rented ten pounds by a year, paid any parish taxes or was a yearly hired servant when she, this Examinant, married the said Friday was a yearly hired servant to the said Mr Monk in Cecil Street in the parish of [...?]shom she there served for the space of 7 years before she married and continued in that service until within a fortnight past and that she had during the whole time £6 by the year wages, diet and lodging.

1746 Jul 23: Settlement examination of Catherine Bengall [F5037, p182]

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Catherine Bengall Lodging att Mrs Yates at the Sign of the Ship in the Playhouse Passage in the parish of St Martins in the fields, age 14 years. Born in Bengall in the East India that she was a slave of Mr. Suthern Davies first councel to .... Stock Governour of Bengall aforesaid and then was made a present from the said Mr. Davies to Mrs Ann Suthern of the said place and was brought over by her said Mistress about four years and half ago that she was Baptised at St James Church by Doctor Seker by the name of Catherine Bengall in the parish of St James in the Liberty of Westminster in the County of Middlesex that she left her said Mistress who now lives at Kinsington about a month before Christmas last that she never kept house rented ten pounds by the year paid any Parish Taxes or was a yearly hired servant since she left her said mistress and this Examinant upon her further voluntary oath saith she is now great with child which is or are likely to be born a Bastard or Bastards and become chargeable to the sd parish of St Martin in the fields and that William Lloyd Lodging in Bennetts Court att Mrs Mary Huff facing Russell Court in the parish of St Clements Danes had carnall knowledge of her Body some time in the month of December last at the House of Mr Carnes the lower end of Wish Street near St Clement Church up two pair of stairs upon a Bed there several times afterwards at the same place at one of which times he the said William Lloyd did beget her with child of the said child or children. She now goeth with and is Pregnant of and that the said William Lloyd is the True and only Father therof and man also

[Signed] X the mark of Catherine Bengall

Child born in workhouse in Sep 1746 [F5037, p334]

17?? Ann Edwards, aged 23, single, born in Jamaica [F5065, p276]

1779 Sep 3: Settlement examination of Mary Benbow [F5066, p45]

The examination of Mary Benbow in the Work House of and in the parish of St Martin in the Fields, Taken this Third Day of September in the year 1779.

This Examinant on her Oath saith that she is about 27 years of age, that she never was Married, and this Examinant on her Oath saith that she is now big with Child or Children which is or are likely to be born a bastard or bastards and to become chargeable to the said Parish of St Martin in the Fields. And that Neptune a Black Moor, servant to Captain McGilbert who lodges at the Cheesmongers in Fenchurch Street had carnal knowledge of her body in the Dining Room in the house of Mr. Fossets, an Attorney in Thanets Place near Temple Bar on or about the [?] Day of February [?] last and several times afterwards in the same place at which on one of which times he the said Neptune Did beget her with Child or Children she now goeth with and is pregnant of. And that he the said Neptune is the true and only father thereof. And no man else.

[signed] Mary Benbow

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1782 Abraham Alleck, ‘a blackamoor’, named as father to Sarah Jameson’s bastard daughter [F5068, p132, see also p74]

1783 May 9: Admitted to workhouse: George Downing, a black, aged 45 [F4016]

1785 Pencilled note referring to Isaac Lowden, ‘a black fellow’ who has pawned some items not belonging to him [F5070, p342]

1786 Sep: Settlement examination of Nancy Lynch, aged 24, born Charlestown, S Carolina, brought to England last November against her will by Alexander Stewart in the ship Jason, Captain Appleby. Now pregnant, Alexander Stewart is said to be the father (not completed, stops in mid-sentence) [F5071, p289]

1790 Oct 12: Settlement examination of Hannah Owen [F5073, p239]; [see also baptisms, St Margaret, 6 July 1784]

Hannah Owen, aged 32 years upon her Oath (having been baptised at St Margarets Church Westminster) saith that she was born in Philadelphia and that she was brought over from Charles Town South Carolina by Chief Justice Gordon about seven years ago that she lived with her said Master in the capacity of a Servant in Craigs Court, Charing Cross in the parish of St Martin in the Fields for the space of twelve months when her said Master removed into Fludyer St in the parish of St Margaret in the City of Westminster and she this Examinant with him where she lived for the space of one year and upwards under the same hiring but received no wages only diet & lodging since she quitted which she hath not been a yearly hired Servant in any one place for twelve months together nor done any Act to gain a Subsequent Settlement. And this Examinant upon her Voluntary Oath saith that she was on the 21st day of December last delivered at the House of Jeffery Williams in Exeter Street in the parish of St Martin in the Fields of a Male Bastard Child since baptized Andrew yet living and chargeable to the said parish and that James Gordon a Black did beget of her Body the said Male Bastard Child and that he the said James Gordon is the true and only father thereof & no other man.

1791 Settlement examination of Ann Clossen or Barker [F5074, p65]

Ann Clossen, otherwise Barker, aged 24 years or thereabouts and baptised at the parish church of St George in the East in the month of August 1782 by name Ann Barker, upon her oath saith that she was never married that she was brought over from Africa to England by Captain Moore with whom she lived in Kent Street in the Borough about 6 years, had diet, lodging and cloaths but no wages and quitted his service when baptised, that she hired herself as a yearly servant at Midsummer Day June 25th 1790 and continued in her said service with Mr H S J Neale, a Surgeon in John Street, Adelphi in the parish of St Martin in the Fields for the space of three months at the yearly wages of Seven Guineas and a half, diet and lodging and then discharged herself from her said Master's service in order to live with John Clossen, a Black Man at Mr Molton, Red Deer, Bethnal Green, with whom she continued about one month when in consequence of some words she left him and then applied to Mr Neale to know if he

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wanted a servant, who again hired her on the 20th day of October 1790 at the yearly wages of Eight Guineas, diet and lodging and continued with her said master under the said hiring until the 20 day of September 1791 and as then discharged. And this examinant upon her voluntary oath further said that she was on the 20th day of September last delivered at the house of Mr. Brown Off Alley in the parish of St Martins in the Fields, of a male Bastard child since baptized Robert, yet living and become chargeable to the said parish, and that Robert Allen who lived with Mr Neale did beget of her body the said male bastard child and is the true and only father thereof and no man else.

Sworn this 10th day of November 1791 before John Collick Ann Barker, otherwise Clossen [mark of] X

1813 Workhouse Admission and Discharge Register, Aurora Thompson alias Africanus [F4081]

1817 30 Dec: Royal ? Saml 15 no lodging, a lad of colour [Rough examination book, p188]

1817 23 May: Isabella Todd, Parkers Lane, St Giles's, a woman of colour [Rough examination book, p111]

1817 26 Sep: Jas James (brought by Mr Afriotti last night, came from Hammersmith, going to London Docks, says born in Jamaica [Rough examination book, p187 [167?]

1817 29 Sep: Sarah Gloves, 19 Rose St, Bishopsgate St, a woman of colour belongs to Lambeth [Rough examination book, p152]

1821 30 July: Chas Malcolm (a black). Rented 1st floor at Lucas 13 Castle St, Kings Mews in 1806-7 & 8 £50 a yr - afterwards went to sea [F6105, Rough examination book, p140]

1827 Workhouse Admission and Discharge Register, Aurora Africanus [F4045?]

1828 18 June: Catherine Wilhelmina Bays, a black (aged 30) [Workhouse Admission Book, F4030]

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7. DIRECTORIES

Westminster City Archives holds extensive collections of London directories, including sets devoted to Paddington, Marylebone, and Pimlico.

A searchable digital library of English and Welsh local and trade directories is being produced by the University of Leicester at: www.historicaldirectories.org

The usefulness of directories is suggested by a reading of Kelly's Post Office London Directory for 1898. The following entries are found under the category of 'Societies, Associations, and Institutions'

Societies - General African Missions Transport Col Ltd, 1 Gresham st EC Eastern & Colonial Association Ltd, 28 Victoria street, SW Egypt Exploration Fund, 37 Great Russell st WC Imperial Institute of the United Kingdom, the Colonies & India, Imperial Institute road, South Kensington SW Native Races and the Liquor Traffic United Committee, 9 Bridge street, Westminster SW Palestine Exploration Fund, 24 Hanover square W Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade, Finsbury House, Blomfeld street EC South African Association, 16 Gt George st SW

Societies - Benevolent Aborigines Protection, Broadway chambers, Westminster SW Anti-Slavery Society (British & Foreign), 55 New Broad st, City EC Bengal, Madras & Bombay Civil Funds, India Office, Charles street, Westminster Bengal Medical Retiring Fund, India Office, Charles street, Westminster SW Bengal Military Fund, India Office, Charles street, Westminster SW Bengal Military Orphan Society India Office, Charles street, Westminster SW Bombay Medical Retiring Fund, India Office, Charles street, Westminster SW Bombay Military Fund, India Office, Charles street, Westminster SW Indian Mutiny Relief Fund, 2 East India avenue EC India Navy Fund, India Office, Charles street, Westminster SW Madras Medical Fund, India Office, Charles street, Westminster SW Madras Military Fund, India Office, Charles street, Westminster SW

Societies - Educational School of Modern Oriental Studies, Imperial Institute, Imperial Institute road SW Society for the Promoting Female education in the East, 267 Vauxhall Bridge road SW Women's Mission Association for Promoting Female Education in India & other Heathen Countries, 19 Delahay st, SW

Societies - Learned, Artistic & Scientific Anthropological Institute of Great Britain & Ireland, 3 Hanover square W East India Association, 3 Victoria Street SW Japan Society, 20 Hanover square W Oriental Translation Fund, 22 Albermarle street W Royal Asiatic Society, 22, Albermarle street W Royal Colonial Institute, Northumberland avenue, Charing cross WC Imperial War Fund, 20 Bucklersbury EC

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Societies - Missionary, Tract & Bible Association for the Furtherance of Christianity in Egypt, 7 Dean's yard, SW Baptist Missionary Society, 19 Furnivl. st. Hlbrn EC Church of England Zenana Missionary Soc., 9 Salisbury square EC Church Missionary Society, 14, 15, 16, Salisbury square EC Colonial Missionary Society, 22 Congregational Memorial hall & library, 15 Farringdon st EC Congo Balolo Mission, 55 Bow road E Friends' Foreign Mission Association, 15 Devonshire street, Bishopsgate EC Mission to Lepers in India & the East, 186 Aldersgate st EC Universities Mission to Central Africa, 9 & 10 Dartmouth street SW Zambesi Industrial Mission Society, 1 Gresham street EC Zanana, Bible & Medical Mission or Indian Female Normal School & Instruction Soc., 2 Adelphi terrace, Adelphi WC

Societies - Political (Non-party) British Empire League, 112 Cannon st EC Imperial Federation (Defence) Committee, 25 Old Qn. st SW Indian National Congress, British Committee, 9 Bridge street SW Unity of Empire Lecturers, 17 & 18 Tothill street SW

Societies - Political (Conservative) Primrose League, 64 Victoria street SW Primrose League, Ladies' Grand Council, 64 Victoria street SW

Societies - Religious (Church of England) Association for the Furtherance of Christianity in Egypt, 7 Dean's yard, Westminster Colonial Bishoprics' Fund, 19 Delahay st, Westminster SW Colonial & Continental Church Society, 9 Serjeants' Inn, Fleet street EC

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8. PERIODICALS & NEWSPAPERS

Westminster City Archives holds a comprehensive collection of periodicals, newsletters and newspapers relating to Westminster, Marylebone, Paddington and London in general.

Newspaper and periodicals held in Westminster Libraries & Archives can be searched online at: www.westminster.gov.uk/libraries/wulop/

The NEWSPLAN London and the South East web-site provides details of about 2,500 titles of local newspapers, past and present, relating to the London and South East region of the United Kingdom: http://laser.newsplan.co.uk/

1679 Theft of horse from Cross Keys Inn, St Martin’s Lane, ‘the Person suspected is a black man, with short hair, pale Faced, with Pockholes, about 40 years of Age’ [London Gazette, Feb, in Foster’s, Inns, Taverns, Alehouses etc, vol 19, p77]

1684 Advertisement with a reward offered for a runaway soldier, John Jones ‘a short black man with his own hair curling about 26 years old’ [London Gazette, Jan 5 in Foster’s Inns, Taverns, Alehouses etc, Leg Inn, p134]

1704 Runaway slave – Jack, negro boy about 14, newly recovered of the smallpox ...; London Gazette [St Martin’s Newspapers]

London gazette 1704

1756 Apr 12: ‘a tall black gentleman’ fictitiously accused of the murder of the publican at Vine Tavern, near Old Bond Street, by Captain Ogle. Gentleman’s Magazine [mss copy in Foster’s Inns, Taverns etc, vol 69, pp172-3]

1766 Absented from his Proprietor … a negro man about 18 … named Andrews, born in the Grenades ... [St Martin’s Scrapbook, Covent Garden, vol 2 (2), 114F]

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1770 Sale of land and slaves in Jamaica to take place in London; 111 negroes ‘well seasoned’; Lloyd’s Evening Post [St Martin’s Newspapers]

1770 [Michael Thomas, a black, marrying Ann Broadley, a white, at St Olave's, Southwark. Interrupted by a press gang]; [Gentleman's Magazine, Monday 5 November, vol XL, p538, column 2]

Lloyd’s Evening Post, 1770

1779 Mulatto: Frances Gregory absconded with a mulatto girl aged 8, reward given [St Martin’s Scrapbook, Covent Garden, vol 2(2), 170E]

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1792 ‘The Negro, Gustavis Vasa, who has lately married the daughter of ----- Cullen, Esq and who, as he himself relates in the history of his own life, was kidnapped in his infancy, is a native of the Danish Island of Santa Cruz’, Lloyd’s Evening Post, 20-23 April 1792 [not in collection]

1792 ‘Marriages – On Monday 9th inst at Soham, Cambridgeshire, the celebrated Gustavus Vasa to Miss Cullen the daughter of Mr Cullen of Ely’, The Times, 23 April 1792 [Times Digital Archive]

1796 [Patrol was called to a pub in Charles Court off the Strand after complaints about a riotous assembly. They found there 17 chimney sweeps, 9 dustmen and a black fiddler who were arrested but released after it was found they were not doing anything wrong!]; [Foster, vol 29, p248]

1820 [Collection of contemporary newspapers reporting on the trial and execution of Cato Street conspirators; The Courier, 25 Oct 1819; The Morning Chronicle, 24, 25, 26 February; 4, 17, 28 March; 26, 28, 29 April; 2 May 1820; supplement; [D Misc 276, kept at Ashbridge 950, III/7P/6]

1828 Jan 27: ‘Affecting Death of an East Indian Girl’, Fanny Fetar (15) The News [St Martin’s Newspapers, 327]

1848 'On the 19th William Cuffay, a notorious leader of the Chartists, was committed for conspiracy. He is a little tailor of about 40 years of age, but possessed of consummate effrontery'; [Gentleman's Magazine, Sept 1848, p311]

1850 Apr 13: Mr William Cuffay, Reynold’s Political Instructor [EO]

1854 [Poster advertising lecture on the horrors of slavery at Portman Hall, Marylebone by Mr J Brown, ‘a Gentleman of Colour, and an escaped Slave from the State of Georgia’, 20 July. He ‘will appear in his Horns and Bells, such as are worn by re-captured Slaves, and exhibit a Nigger-popper, also several African Hymns will be sung’]; [Cuttings/T137 Portman Hall]

1854 1 Dec: [Conference of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, continued at the London Tavern; included reports on imprisonment of a woman in Virginia for reading the Bible to negroes, and Rev Mr Ward who brought up the subject of fugitive slaves in Canada; also in Carolina black British seamen on British ships were seized, imprisoned and sold into slavery]; [The Morning Post: St Martin’s Newspapers, vol 3]

1857 [Illustration and letter from Punch, 30 May: part of campaign by army officers to raise money for ‘Mother Seacole’]; [EO]

1858 Nov: ‘The Coloured Opera Troupe at the Oxford Street Gallery’ – illustration and short article [MBN Cuttings 9/80]

1899 ‘Lady will undertake Dinners, Lunches, Oriental dishes a specialty – Pulaos, Kababs, Kofta, Lardak, Curries – Barwactu, 11 Queen’s Rd, Bayswater’, Paddington, Kensington and Bayswater Chronicle, 27 May 1899, last page under Miscellaneous [reel 37]

1904 Coloured man sent for trial. Robert Lee Smith (24). The coloured music hall artist charged under circumstances reported last week with stealing £25 in

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bank notes belonging to Stephen Chapman of Brecknock Rd Camden Town was committed to trial [Paddington Times, Nov 18 1904]

1906 Marylebone Mercury and West London gazette, 6 Oct 1906, ‘The Borough Council Elections’: Mr Williams … said his object would be to serve working classes. He was surprised to see hovels that existed … strongly advocated putting into force by … of Working Classes Housing Act. The workers themselves should take action to force … to put Act in force

1906 Marylebone Mercury and West London Gazette, 13 Oct 1906, ‘Mr H S Williams, who came from beyond seas was one whom he could also recommend as a man who would work well in … Labour interest’

1906 Marylebone Mercury and West London Gazette, 20 Oct 1906, Mr Sylvester Williams a … negro ...

1906 Marylebone Mercury and West London Gazette, 17 Nov 1906, ‘Our New Councillors’ [biography of Henry Sylvester Williams]

1906 Marylebone Mercury and West London Gazette, 24 Nov 1906, H S Williams on Improvements and Housing Committee

1909 Marylebone Mercury and West London Gazette, 23 Jan 1909, H S Williams resigned his seat ‘owing to professional engagements’ in Trinidad

1924 Obituary of Dr John Alcindor, Bayswater Chronicle, 1 Nov

"By the passing away of Dr. John Alcindor M.B., B.Ch. (Edin), at the early age of 51 years, a well-known local medical practitioner has joined the majority. He died on the 25th ultimo at St Mary's Hospital, after a somewhat brief illness. The deceased lived for many years at 23, Westbourne Park Road Bayswater, and had a surgery for many years in the Harrow Road, and was a familiar figure in the neighbourhood. He was also for a few years a district medical relief officer under the Paddington Board of Guardians. He was a man of colour, and was widely known as the "Black Doctor". Dr Alcindor had a considerable practice among the poor of the Harrow Road neighbourhood, and was very popular among those who used to avail themselves of his medical skill and knowledge. His death has come as a great surprise, being much regretted by his clients, and, indeed, by all who were in any way associated with him. He was both modest and unassuming in his bearing; also of kindly and sympathetic disposition. The funeral took place on Thursday morning at St Mary's Cemetery, Kensal Green. Prior to the internment, an impressive service was held at St Mary's of the Angels, Westmoreland Road, Paddington".

1956 ‘At Victoria Station: one of the arrivals from the West Indies in June 1956’, Sunday Telegraph, 30 Oct 1994 [Cuttings/C137 Vic]

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9. INSTITUTIONS, CLUBS & SOCIETIES

1824 Past Overseers' Society of Parishes of St Margaret and St John: Minutes, accounts, membership records, correspondence and descriptions and illustrations of tobacco box, 1824-1887, 1940-1983; membership records and handbook, [1921]-1980; [Acc 1780]

Engraved plate for the Westminster Tobacco Box for 1842

The Westminster Tobacco Box, a collection of plate with an annual addition of an engraved plate recording parochial, national and international events. Imperial events and conflicts are a recurring feature.

1846-1855 Circuit Foreign and Home Missionary Society: Minutes, 1846-1855

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1846-1923 Hinde Street Methodist Church: Foreign Missionary Society records, 1846-1923 [M:Acc 594]

1887 Minutes of meetings of a sub-committee of ratepayers and of the executive committee to consider promoting the Imperial Institute as national memorial commemorating the Jubilee of Queen Victoria's accession, 16 Mar 1887- 16 June 1887; [C1101]

1898 Paddington Missionary Loan exhibition, Paddington Baths Hall, Queen's Road, Bayswater, 28 Mar-2 Apr 1898; [Acc 2253] . The Paddington Missionary Loan Exhibition was designed to promote missionary works and to raise additional funds to support missionary work. The Paddington Baths Hall was divided into a number of courts which had displays from countries throughout the world. In addition there was a large programme of talks and musical attractions]

1898 A two page printed leaflet appealing for volunteers to act as stewards at the Paddington Missionary Loan Exhibition, 1898; [Acc 2253/1]

1898 Printed appeal relating to the sale of tickets for the Paddington Missionary Loan Exhibition, 1898; [Acc 2253/2]

1898 Missionary Loan Exhibition, Numerous and wonderful curiosities from all parts of the world, Baths Hall, Queen's Road, Bayswater; [poster]; [Acc 2253/5]

1898 Illustrated leaflet advertising the Missionary Loan Society Exhibition, giving details of the attractions, lectures, refreshments and ticket information; [Acc 2253/6]

1898 Copy of the official illustrated handbook of the Missionary Loan Exhibition (together with the original envelope); [Acc 2253/7]

1898 An eight page programme for the Missionary Loan Society Exhibition, including details of the Executive and General Committees organising the event; [Acc 2253/8]

1898 Missionary Loan Society Exhibition: daily programme for Friday April 1st, 1898, giving details of order of events such as talks and including a plan of the Paddington Baths Hall; [Acc 2253/9]

1898 A two page printed leaflet from Mr Edward A Stuart, (of Princes Square, Bayswater) Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Paddington Missionary Loan Exhibition, appealing for assistance in the form of active participation, financial support or prayers, following the conclusion of the Exhibition, 1898; [Acc 2253/11]

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Paddington Missionary Loan Exhibition, 1898 (Acc 2253)

1903 Hotel Metropole: album of menus; [includes decorative souvenir menus for the Royal Colonial Institute, Japan Society, Royal Asiatic Society, West India Committee, United Empire Trade League, Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, China Association, Royal Geographic Society, and the British Empire League; [FF932.1371, 2 vols.]

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1914-1939 Account book of "The Optimists" Missionary Band missionary fund, giving details of payments for education and nursing in China, 11 Feb 1914 - Dec 1939; [Acc 1320/24]

1918 [Greycoat Hospital, Form VI in costume at fancy dress tea given by staff for Empire Day, Miss Fear dressed as Britannia, 1 May 1918]; [1648/1852-1853]

1919-1934 Minutes of the Church Council including reports of the education sub- committee and the Foreign Missions committee, 30 May 1919 - 19 Apr 1934 [Acc 420/95]

1920-1932 Burdett Coutts and Townshend School Empire Day [programmes, 1920, 1924, 1926, 1928, 1929, 1931, 1932, 1933, and 1936]; [Acc 2217/94]

1930-1973 Correspondence file, largely of C.R. Chisman, including material relating to the Empire Loan Club, 21 Jul 1930 - 1973; [Acc 2245/34]

1934-1938 Royal Commonwealth Society (formerly Empire Society).

Set of plans by Sir Herbert Baker and A T Scott, Architects of Hart and Waterhouse Associates, Architects, 23 May 1934. Plan of gallery rails by Sir Herbert Baker and A T Scott, Architects of Hart and Waterhouse Associates, Architects, Feb 1936. Revised seating plan of auditorium by Sir Herbert Baker and A T Scott, Architects of Hart and Waterhouse Associates, Architects, 15 Jul 1938; [WccAcc 39/3]

1934-1950 Empire Art Loans Exhibitions Society, 2 files, 1934-1950 [Acc 2245/2/4]

1958-1968 Church Missionary Council minute book, 15 April 1958 - 25 Jan 1968; [Acc 2264/56]

1963-1966 Royal British Colonial Society of Artists, 2 files, 1963-1966; [Acc 2245/2/6]

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10. MILITARY & ARMED BODIES

[C19th] Thresher and Glenny's lists of military outfits, with prices, for the Indian Army; [Acc 301/30]

[C19th] Obituary of Captain Alphonso Kirk by his son Conran Alphonso Kirk. Alphonso Kirk died on 3 Dec 1818 at Kingston Cross near Portsmouth at the age of 32 after a long and painful illness brought about on by his service in the West Indies, where he was captain of the late 7th West Indies Regiment, he was survived by his wife Mary and three small children; [Acc 1356/6]

1818 St James Westminster, Loyal Volunteer Regiment: minute book, 25 Apr 1815-8 Jan 1816. At the end of the minute book are a series of nine satirical and pornographic cartoons, one of which shows the abuse of chained black slaves by soldiers [Acc 767]

1831-1834 Letters from various persons on business matters (including letters from Lt.-Gen. Henry Hope Crealock about the Zulu War 1879, from the Duke of Connaught, J.B. Dillon MP, E.W. Pelham, Lord Clinton, Sir Dighton Probyn, Linley Sambourne and 1st Baron Baden-Powell about uniforms for the South African Constabulary; [Acc 301/19]

[1854-1902?] Lists of numbers offices supplied with outfits by Thresher & Glenny for the following campaigns: Crimea 1854, Indian Mutiny 1858, Afghanistan 1878/9/80, Egypt 1882, Atbara and Omdurman 1898, and South Africa 1899-1902; [Acc 301/31]

1868-1923 Queen's Westminster Rifles: programmes and menus 1902-1923, articles and cuttings 1906-1918, photographs 1898-1909; Acc 1987]

1879 Letter from Archibald Forbes (1838-1900), war correspondent and military biographer, at 34 Lanark Villas, Maida Hill, with thanks for a letter and enclosures received on his return to England from Afghanistan, 22 Aug 1879; [M:Acc 612/36]

[c1883] Photograph of officers and men: thirty six officers and men of the Civil Service (12th Middlesex) Rifle Volunteers in dress uniform and dates from around 1883. The Rifle Volunteers served with the Kensington Volunteers in Palestine during World War One; [Acc 2011]

1898 Album of six photographs of officers (in South Africa, Boer War), signallers, parade, 1898-1900; [Acc 1987/9]

1900 Sun Insurance Office Ltd, Charing Cross, staff scrapbook, with enclosures: pp161-162, two letters and photograph from Daily News of Sergeant S Henshaw, serving with the London Rifle Brigade in South Africa during the Boer War, 18 Mar, 28 Aug 1900; [Acc 447/1]

1900 Large illustrated invitation card for Lieut J W Cohen (officers, non- commissioned officers and men of City of London Imperial Volunteers) to attend a banquet given by the Corporation of the City of London at

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Armoury House, Finsbury following their return from South Africa (Boer War), 27 October 1900; [Acc 1987/33]

1907 Golden commemoration of the Indian Mutiny veterans at the Royal Albert Hall, Dec 23rd, 1907; [355.00942]

1908 Menu of the City of London Imperial Volunteers F Company seventh annual dinner at the Holborn Restaurant, 28 Nov 1908; [Acc 1987/35]

[1920?] Military Public Liason Art Group: Indian classical and modern ballet [illustrated programme]; [Theatre collection - Acc1/Box1/3]

1929 J.L. Kirby: The history of scouting in St Marylebone: from its inception in 1908 to its 21st birthday in 1929 (Marylebone Mercury, 1929); [369.43]

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11. BUSINESS RECORDS

1809-1811 Correspondence of Archibald Hamilton of Cumberland Street re mortgage involving slaves in Jamaica; [Acc 1913]

1837 Letter from F. Carpenter, at 24 Dorset Place, to Colonel Sir George Arthur, at Feltham, Middlesex, asking for a loan to avoid accepting a low offer on his mortgaged estate in Jamaica, 14 Sep 1837; [Acc 988/154]

1838 James White, Jamaica merchant, 61 Great Portland Street, St Marylebone

Cash book. The volume provides much detailed information concerning trade with the West Indies, including details of cargoes carried on the ship "Caroline" and the names of clients. It seems likely

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that White had a financial interest in the operation of the "Caroline". The cargoes which were chiefly transported back from the West Indies were sugar, ginger and rum, but also such items as wine, shrub, logwood, lancewood, coffee and arrow root.

At the end of the volume is a detailed statement of the settlement of the financial affairs of John White following his death and dated 2 March 1852. His estate was equally divided between two nieces Miss Jane White and Mrs Catherine Perry (the wife of William John Perry). Each received £1,487 and 5 shillings, partly in cash and partly in the form of consols. [Acc 1993]

1838 Receipted bill of Joseph Hampton (late Joseph Johnson), carrier, 4 Northwick Mews, Aberdeen Place, St Marylebone for services to Dr Ansley. Attached to a letter from John S Brinsley, 121 Leadenhall Street, sending a case of "natural curiosities" from Madras, which Captain Hall of the ship "Sir Edward Paget", had purchased from Captain R Maunsell, 16 Mar 1838; [M:Acc 612/82]

1846 Mr W. Greenaway, Bankshall Street, Calcutta. Sends letter via Marseilles date 15 Nov 1845 asking for his half yearly warehouse rent charge to be paid regularly. Asks for inventory of his stage belongings to compare with the receipts he holds. Last account paid 2 Oct 1844; [Acc TIL/321]

1853 The Australian, Indian and Colonial Shipping Circular and Thresher and Glenny's Price Current, Apr - May 1853; [Acc 301/29]

1867 Westminster and General Life Assurance Association, correspondence over the policy of Captain Henry Lumsden Hawkins, serving in Bengal, 5 items, 1867-1869; [Acc 343/112/24/a-e]

[c1880?] Advertisement for Eastern Art Manufactures by Liberty and Co. East India Merchants; [Acc 788/6/1/1]

1881 Album of cuttings from the "C and R Examiner" entitled 'South Africa Revisited' by George S Morris, commission buyer, and his letters to editors of newspapers, with annotations Enclosures: Report of court case of Morris versus Palmer and Aitken over South African estate of TB Burnham, 8 Dec 1881-14 Jan 1882; cuttings of Morris' articles on international affairs written for South African newspaper, 23 Sep 1887- 16 Mar 1894; article entitled 'World-Wide Wanderings' concerning lecture by Morris, taken from magazine of St George's College, Wimbledon, nd [1890s]; handbill advertising Morris' lectures, Dec [1890s], Nov 1891-Sep 1893; [Acc 1327/648]

1883 Specification for furniture and fittings, Houses of Parliament at Cape Town, Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (Gillow archive) ; [Acc 344/4/3]

1884 File relating to the printing of the Colonial Office list, 28 May 1884-21 Oct 1886, including correspondence with the Colonial Office, calculations of printing costs from 1872 to 1886, and articles of agreement, 16 Aug 1886; [Acc 1272/142]

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1885 Papers concerning the Indian Village Exhibition at the Albert Palace, Battersea, including photocopies from the Illustrated London News and a list of Indians brought over by Liberty & Co, Jun-Nov 1885; [Acc 788/23]

1887 Photocopies of advertisements for Indian washing silks (including bathing costumes), 3 Aug 1878. Liberty stock taking sale, 2 Jan 1892. Both from "The Queen", 3 Aug 1878; [Acc 788/106/6 and 6a]

1888-1889 Part of a diary of the round the world trip undertaken by Arthur and Emma Liberty from December 1888 - July 1889: volume of Egypt and Ceylon, 13 Dec 1888-5 Feb 1889; [Acc 788/179]

1890 Handbook of furniture sketches, comprising eight photocopies and one photograph of 'Arab' interiors, and one page of Japanese furniture and decoration, c1890; [Acc 788/36/1]

1897 Letter from Joseph A. Augustus at Cape Coast Castle, Gold Coast, to Jaegar offering to become an agent, 19 Jul 1897; [Acc 1327/548]

1890-1917 Photocopies from the "Journal of the Society of Arts" of contributions to debate by A.L. Liberty, and lectures given by him including "The industrial arts and manufactures of Japan", "English furniture", and "Pewter and the revival of its use"; [Acc 788/178] early c20th Schedule of grain shipped from Calcutta, India, during July and Aug [n.d.] (Watney Mann archive); [Acc 789/494]

1901 Letter from the Palestine Exploration Fund thanking Harrisons (Printers) for allowing them a discount, 11 June 1901 [Acc 1272/197]

1903 Letter from Chander Bhan in Lahore, Pakistan, to Jaegar asking for samples to establish import and export agency [Acc 1327/550]

1910 Japan, a pictorial record by Mrs Lasenby Liberty, with text by Arthur Liberty, 1910 [Acc 788/181]

1914 Notes compiled by Arthur Lasenby Liberty (including a copy of the will of Richard Plaistowe, 1852), and friends in Nottingham, and at Farmer and Rogers Oriental Warehouse, c1914; [Acc 788/162a]

1923-1933 Notes on the jade mining interests of Liberty & Co with Burchin Syndicate concession at Tawmaw, Burma; [Acc 788/65(c)]

1929-1932 Correspondence between C.F. Glenny and Daniel Metz, G.M. Monnet & Jean Michand, newspaper cuttings, outfit lists, patterns etc. concerning Citroen Cars Ltd. Central Asia Mission; [Acc 301/25]

1931-1934 File marked 'Citroen Expedition Communiqués' containing letters and communiqués; also map of route of mission, photographs etc. Copy of Bulletin Citroen: a special issue on expeditions to C. Asia and C. Africa (December 1932). Also programme of the gala performance of the film "An Eastern Odyssey. A Record of the Citroen Trans-Asiatic Expedition," 13 Nov 1934; [Acc 301/26]

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1932 Photograph of Sir William Crawford, chairman of the Empire Marketing Board and Jaegar's advertising adviser, summer 1932; [Acc 1327/593]

from: The Citroën Trans Asiatic Expedition, 1934 [Acc 301/26]

1970 "Henry Rothschild's Indian Journey". Exhibition of Fabrics, carvings and jewellery collected for Liberty and Primavera on a visit to India; Includes correspondence and publicity material, papers re press preview and notes on the sale of the goods, mostly to museums, 27 May - 4 Aug 1970; [Acc 788/67]

1973 Papers relating to Mr Walker's trip to Japan, including photographs of a reception given by Kanebo, a large textile concern, and a fashion show featuring Liberty Prints. Also a notice of agreement between Liberty and Kanebo for the manufacture and sale of Liberty Fabrics in Japan, and a publicity folder in Japanese based on "The Liberty Story", Jan 1973; [Acc 788/88]

1997 Copy of the Asian Community Initiative of the Prince's Youth Business Trust, featuring an advert for Liberty on p.30; [Acc 2345/139]

2001 Press release and poster for showcase of Asian art at Liberty, 7-19 Aug 2001; [Acc 2345/100]

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12. LETTERS, DIARIES & FAMILY PAPERS

1760-1853 Diary of James Chaloner Alabaster of 58 Piccadilly, 1832-1838 and papers particularly relating to his visit to North America in 1837 and his pursuit of a claim to Indian land; [Acc 2369]

1783 Will of James McGill of Jamaica, dated 7 July 1783. Probate granted 31 July [Acc 177/51]

1798-1905 Barkly Papers, 386 items; [M:Acc 618]

Sir Henry Barkly (1815-1898), colonial governor. Barkly's father owned an estate in British Guyana and his mother was the daughter of a Jamaican planter. Barkly was governor of Guinea (1848-1853); governor of Jamaica (1853-1856); governor of Victoria (1856-1863); governor of Mauritius (1863-1870); governor of the Cape Colony (1870-1871); fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Geographical Society.

The letters, autographs, and photographs of eminent Victorians contained in this collection were assembled by Barkly and his wife from their own official and personal correspondence, and through friends and auction purchases. The letters passed into the hands of Barkly's wife's family, the Timins, after his death and were deposited at Marylebone Library in June 1943 by the Ministry of Supply`s Department of Salvage (who had rescued them from the Library of Douglas Timins, former Mayor of Marylebone).

This letter collection spans the entire 19th century, although predominantly from the second half of the century and are arranged in groups according to the field of work of the correspondents. Many well-known names from royalty, imperial government, the armed forces and the arts appear, although in many cases the items included are simply envelopes or signatures.

[C19th] Letter from Mr Chart to Rt Hon O. Thompson concerning the Colonial Bill; [M:Acc 618/44]

[C19th] End of a letter from Sir Charles Henry Darling concerning his colonial service in Sydney; [M:Acc 618/290]

[C19th] Letter of introduction from Lord Carlisle to the governor of British Guinea (Sir Henry Barkly) concerning Robert Neilson [Wilson], agricultural scientist. Also biographical details of Lord Carlisle; [M:Acc 618/26]

1800-1915 Floyd Family of Mansfield Street: family and probate papers - including conveyances relating to Latrium and other estates in Jamaica, 29 March 1870 - 27 July 1909; [Acc 2104]

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1810 Sir William Keith Ball of 84 Gloucester Terrace, probate and property papers relating to St Marylebone, Calcutta and Nova Scotia; [Acc 2100]

1820 Receipts from the Stamp Office for duty paid on legacies on the estate of Martha Hinton East, widow, formerly of St Andrew, Jamaica and later of Upper Montagu Street, Montagu Square (who died 9 Sep 1816) of cutlery, linen and furniture to Mrs Elizabeth Drake and £100 in shares to Joanne Harris. Anna Fitzgerald, widow of Bath, Somerset, is named as executrix, 1 Nov 1820; [D Misc 238]

1829 Letter from Captain Frederick Marryat, novelist, to the secretary of the Asiatic Society concerning his gift of a 'curious painting ... supposed to be Fo or Confucius'; [Acc 988/102]

1830 Legacy duty form relating to the personal estate of Frederick Andrewes of Montego Bay, Jamaica, deceased , 7 Dec 1840 [Acc 789/163]

1830s-1850s Letter and family papers of Sir Rutherford Alcock, British consul at Shanghai, and his wife Henrietta [Acc 494/380-419]

Sir (John) Rutherford Alcock (1809-1897) was a medical student at the Westminster Hospital and the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital. Appointed British consul at Foochow (Fuzhou) in 1844; consul at Shanghai from 1846; first consul-general in Japan 1858- 1861; minister-plenipotentiary at Peking 1865-1871; president of the Royal Geographical Society 1876-1878; vice-president of the Royal Asiatic Society 1875-1878.

The papers were discovered amongst the records of the parish St James, Piccadilly, but they contain no information to suggest what connection there may have been between the consul and his wife and the parish, or any reason why these papers should have been kept with the parish records.

1832 Letter from Charles Thomas Poulett Thomson to Henry Warburton concerning colonial Querantium Regulations, 3 Mar 1832; [M:Acc 618/293]

1840s Incomplete letter from John Stewart at an unidentified place, reminiscing about his time at Canton and Shanghai, China; [Acc 494/410]

1840s Letter from John Stewart at Pau, France, to Henrietta Alcock at Shanghai, concerning Chinese affairs and the case of Captain Retman

1840s Letter from Rutherford Alcock at Shanghai to Henrietta Alcock about the seizure of some British citizens [Acc 494/413]

1840 Letter from John Labouchere, at 16 Portland Place, to Miss E.M. Lloyd, enclosing a cheque for the Society for the Education of Negro

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Children, whose meeting he was unable to attend, 3 Aug [c1840- 1863]; [D Misc 26]

1845 Copy book of letters written by Henrietta M. Alcock at Hong Kong and Foochow, China, to various friends and relatives in England, 7-22 Nov 1845; [Acc 494/380]

1846 ‘Settling night for the stakes [for the late fight between Perry, a Black, and a man named Burton, wherein the Black was victorious] at Johnny Broome’s, Rising Sun, Air Street, Piccadilly. Self caught sight of the black on the stairs taking money’, 26 Jan 1846, [Diary of Nathaniel Bryceson, Acc 730/1]

1846 Angela Burdett-Coutts, Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814-1906), letters relating to the church of St Stephen Rochester Row, St Stephen's Church Schools and other educational projects, Colonial Missions and Bishoprics; [Acc BUR]

1848 Letter from Marianne Wright, on board the "Ferozapore", to Henrietta Alcock, describing her sea voyage to Shanghai, 27 Feb 1848; [Acc 494/411]

1849 Letter from Anna Haines at Greenwich, to Henrietta Alcock at Shanghai, concerning her fiancé's posting to Bombay and her forthcoming marriage [Acc 494/392]

1849 Letter from Anna Haines on board the "Victoria" steamer from Bombay to Karachi, to Henrietta Alcock at Shanghai, describing her sea journey and her experience at Bombay, and commenting on Lord Gough's military campaign in the Punjab [Acc 494/394]

1849 Letter from Anna Haines at Karachi, to Henrietta Alcock at Shanghai, describing her sister's wedding and some Hindu "superstitions"; [Acc 494/395]

1849 Letter from Anna Haines at Karachi, to Henrietta Alcock at Shanghai, describing the scenery and her social life, 5 Oct 1849; [Acc 494/396]

1849 Letter from vice-admiral Lord Dundonald, commander-in-chief at Wellesley, Bermuda, to Sir Henry Barkly at Grange Town, Demerara, acknowledging Barkly's appointment as Governor of British Guyana; [M:Acc 618/82]

1950 Letter from Anna Haines at Mooltan, to Henrietta Alcock at Shanghai, describing her journey up the river Indus, to her husband's new station [Acc 494/397]

1850 Letter from Anna Haines on the island of Salsette near Bombay, to Henrietta Alcock at Shanghai, concerning her husband's posting to the India Navy [Acc 494/398]

1851 Letter from John Barnard at Canton, China, describing his recent activities, 30 Jan 1851; [Acc 494/414]

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1851 Letter from Anna Haines at Rutnagherry, to Henrietta Alcock at Shanghai, concerning her husband's posting there as vaccinator, and describing their departure from Bombay and journey to Rutnagherry [Acc 494/401]

1852 Marriage settlement of Alexander Geddes of Jamaica but residing at St George's Road, Pimlico, and Frances Evershed of Bayswater; [Acc 2309/6]

1856 Letter from John Barnard at Hong Kong, to Rutherford Alcock at Shanghai, concerning the Douth charges, and the Cantonese merchants [Acc 494/417]

1856 Letter from Lord Roxborough at Durban to Sir Henry Barkly concerning the governorship of Honduras and the prospects of government awards to Mr O'Reilly; [M:Acc 618/122]

1857 Letter from Sir James Stephen (1789-1859), colonial under-secretary 1836-1847, at 29 Westbourne Terrace, Paddington, to Sir James Cosmo Melvill (1792-1861), chief secretary to the East India Company, sending a letter from Doctor Vaughan of Manchester, concerning problems in the East India Company's education system in India, 16 January 1857; [M:Acc 612/16]

1857 Letter from William Howitt at The Hermitage, Highgate Rise, to Lady Barkly concerning the Australian economy and a general discussion of colonial management, 15 Jun 1857 [M:Acc 618/148]

1858 Letter from C.J. Latrobe at London to Sir Henry Barkly concerning his colonial service (lieutenant governor of Cape Colony), 11 June 1858; [M:Acc 618/269]

1858 Letter from Herman Merivale at the Colonial Office to Sir Henry Barkly concerning a letter from Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 8 Dec 1858; [M:Acc 618/202]

1859 Letter from Robert Moffat to Mr Daly about the murder of a magistrate of Victoria and the conduct of government in the Cape Colony; [M:Acc 618/183]

1861 Letter from Sir William Denison at Ootacamund, India, concerning colonial policy and his own experiences in India, 6 Sep 1861; [M:Acc 618/275]

1861 Letter from Sir William John Hooker to Sir Henry Barkly concerning Australian flora; [M:Acc 618/118]

1884 Letter of thanks from Sir Arthur Havelock at 12 Montague Street, Portman Square, to Sir Henry Barkly for his nomination as a Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute; [M:Acc 618/287]

1865 Letter from Jessy [Sarah] Goldsmid [widow of Henry Edward Goldsmid, 1812-1855, Indian civil servant], 32 Nottingham Place, Regent's Park, to Mr Hendricks, thanking him for his efforts in obtaining a post for her son Bertie in the tea business but expressing

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reservations about her son travelling to the Far East in the near future, 20 Jul 1865; [D Misc 253]

1865 Letter from Edward [Car ...] at Colonial Office to Sir Henry Barkly, thanking him for his answer to a despatch and discussing a hearing, 27 Nov 1865; [M:Acc 618/79]

1865 Letter from Frederick Roger to Henry Barkly on the appointment of Major Andrew as inspector of police in Mauritius; [M:Acc 618/37]

1867 Letter from Florence Nightingale at 35 South Street, Park Lane to Miss A Court concerning the fate of acquaintances in a West Indian steamer disaster [Ace 618/184]

1870 Letter from Lord Granville at 16 Brunton Street to Sir Henry Barkly concerning the end of his term in Mauritius; [M:Acc 618/46]

1871 Letter from Edward James Stone at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope to Sir Henry Barkly concerning the Keguelia astronomy expedition; [M:Acc 618/130]

1873 Letter from I.C. Milton at the Colonial Secretary's Office, Cape Town, concerning colonial administration, 25 Nov 1873; [M:Acc 618/329]

1873 Letter from Thomas Burgess at Pretoria, to Sir Henry Barkly concerning the government of the South African Republic; [M:Acc 618/330]

1874 Letter from Lord Carnarvon at the Colonial Office to Sir Henry Barkly arranging for border crossing into the Orange Free State, 15 Jul 1874; [M:Acc 618/228]

1875 Letter from the Duke of Manchester at Kimbolton Castle, St Neots to Sir Henry Barkly recommending his son for colonial service, 13 Mar 1875; [M:Acc 618/20]

1890 Letter from Sir Frederick Carrington at Mafeking to Sir Arthur Barkly concerning a vacancy in the British Military Police; [M:Acc 618/60]

1892 Copy of The negro servant and other stories, awarded to Miss Irene Duguid by D. Robson for attention in lessons (at St Michael's School, Chester Square); [Acc 1689/10]

1893 Letter from John Veldtman (Bikitsha) at Butterworth, south Africa to Sir Henry Barkly to Sir Henry Barkly , concerning the grant of Fingoland to his people; [M:Acc 618/225]

1894 Letter from Sultan Abdulla of Perak at Mahec, Seychelles to Sir Henry Barkly concerning his voyage to England, 14 Oct 1894; [M:Acc 618/77]

1904 Brief notes, extracts and cuttings on places and people associated with St Marylebone, compiled by William Francis Prideaux (1810-

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1914), colonel in the Indian Army and officer of the Indian Civil Service, 1904-1907; [D Misc 249/1-10]

1905 Letters from Aubrey Trevor Battye, Chilbolton, Hampshire, on articles for "XIXth Century and After", 30 Oct - 26 Dec 1905. "From dawn to dusk on the high Zambezi", Dec 1905; "A wild corner in Spain", 1 Jun - 4 Dec 1907; [Acc 716/83]

1950 Photocopy of Imperial Service Medal and certificate awarded to Mary Helena Rook, dated 20 Jan 1950; [Acc 1648/1759]

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13. THE EMPIRE WINDRUSH: passengers giving a Westminster address (compiled by Jill Barber)

1948 Passenger list of the Empire Windrush, which arrived at Tilbury from Trinidad, Kingston, Tampico, Havana and Bermuda, 21 June 1948 [copy of PRO/BT26/1237]. All passengers giving a Westminster address listed below:

Names and Descriptions of Alien Passengers 18 Orsett Terrace, Paddington, W2 BOJCZUK, Maria (47), H D; Janina (17), Student; Stefan (15), Student; Eugeniusz (11), Student; ‘A’ class, from Mexico, embarked at Tampico, intend to live in England, Polish citizens [962-965]

Distressed British Seamen 56 St Martin’s Lane, WC2 CAMPBELL, William (35), M N, from England, embarked at Bermuda, intends to live in England [951]

Names and Descriptions of British Passengers 1ST CLASS c/o John Murray, 50 Albemarle Street, W1 PEROUNE, Freya (54), H D, ‘A’ class, last permanent residence in Italy, embarked in Trinidad, intends to live abroad [72]

c/o Lloyds Bank, 185 Baker Street, W1 HICKSON, Audrey, H D, ‘A’ class, from St Lucia, embarked at Trinidad, intends to live in a foreign country [34]

52 Cadogan Square, W1 SPENCE, Beryl (29), Cook, ‘A’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [243] see also 3rd class

5 Carlisle Mansions, Carlisle Place, SW5 CRUCHLEY, Ignatius (53), Medical, and his wife Phyllis (51), H D, ‘A’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, do not intend to live in England, but in other parts of the British Empire [131-132]

7 Clarence Gate Gardens, Marylebone(?), NW1 HOBAN, Ivy (53), H D, ‘A’ class, from England, embarked in Trinidad [37]

c/o Colonial Office, W1

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DOMINIQUE, Patrick (40), Civil Servant; and his wife Marie (40), H D; ‘A’ class, from Trinidad; do not intend to live permanently in Britain, but in other parts of British Empire [18-19]

c/o Director of Colonial Scholars/Studies, Colonial Office, W1 EGEOLU, John (32), Student, ‘A’ class, from Trinidad, does not intend to live permanently in Britain, but in other parts of British Empire [26] KWEBIHA, Zaccheus (36), Student, ‘A’ class, from Trinidad, does not intend to live permanently in Britain, but in other parts of British Empire [44] ORUWARI, Igonibo (27), Student, ‘A’ class, from Trinidad, does not intend to live permanently in Britain, but in other parts of British Empire [69] WALUKAMBA, Yekonia (36), Student, ‘A’ class, from Trinidad, does not intend to live permanently in Britain, but in other parts of British Empire [99]

10 Craven Hill, Paddington, W2 KENNEDY, Edward (63), Retired, and his wife Frances (51), H D, ‘A’ class, from Bermuda, embarked at Kingston, intend to live abroad [349-50]

c/o Crown Agents, London LEWIS, James (43), Civil Servant, his wife Jessica (35), H D, and Rosemary (2), ‘A’ class, from British Guiana, embarked in Trinidad, do not intend to live permanently in Britain, but in other parts of British Empire [51-53]

Cumberland Hotel, W1 ARIS, Francis (57), Dental Surgeon, ‘A’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, does not intend to live in England, but in other parts of the British Empire [109] MELBOURNE, Eustace (56), Merchant, ‘A’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, does not intend to live in England, but in other parts of the British Empire [223]

21 Grosvenor Square, W1 TUCKER, William (75), Medical, and his wife Henrietta (79), H D, ‘A’ class, from Bermuda, intends to live in other parts of the British Empire

Hyde Park Hotel, SW1 MOUNSEY-GRANT, Honoree (63), H D, ‘A’ class, from Bermuda, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England

Imperial Hotel, WC1

88 LINES, Roland (46), Manager, Mary (43), Barbara (11), Roland (8), ‘A’ class, from Bermuda, embarked at Kingston, intend to live abroad [357-360]

66 Marlborough Place, Marylebone, NW8 CORT, Minnie (53), H D, with Phyllis (29), Actress, and Diana (20), Actress, ‘A’ class, from England, embarked at Kingston, intend to live in England [302-304]

Nutford House, Nutford Place, Marylebone, W1 JONES, Alfred (37), Servant, ‘A’ class, from Trinidad, intends to live in England [39]

C/o Lloyds Bank, Pall Mall, SW1 STEVENS, John (58), Army Officer, and his wife Hamil (57), H D, ‘A’ class, from England, embarked at Kingston, intend to live abroad [244- 245]

C/o Grindlays Bank Ltd, 54 Parliament Street, SW1 STEWART, Vincent (34), Engineer, and his wife Elizabeth (40), with Vreni (11), Massy (3) and Dorinda (1), ‘A’ class, from Burma, embarked at Kingston, intend to live abroad [238-242]

39 Princes Gate Mews, SW7 JOHNSTON, Ian (19), R N, ‘A’ class, from Bermuda, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [345]

Red Ensign Club, London RILEY, Charles (47), Marine Engineer, ‘A’ class, from England, embarked in Trinidad, intends to live in England [75]

Regent Palace Hotel, W1 PRICHARD, Herbert (74), Judge, and his wife Louise (52), H D, ‘A’ class, from Bermuda, intends to live in other parts of British Empire [379-80]

9 Richmond Court, Talbot Road (Paddington?), W2 VERTEUIL, Adele de (63), Hotel Superintendent, ‘A’ class, from Trinidad, does not intend to live permanently in England, but in other parts of the British Empire [95]

Savoy Hotel KENYON, John (47), Engineer, and his wife Alice (43), H D, ‘A’ class, from England, embarked at Kingston, intend to live in England [190- 191]

89 sources for black & asian history at westminster city archives

Strand Palace Hotel, W1 HANDAL, Abraham (38), Merchant, ‘A’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, does not intend to live permanently in England, but in other parts of the British Empire [161]

C/o New Zealand House, Strand TUFFNELL, Lloyd (20), Seaman, ‘A’ class, from New Zealand, embarked at Kingston, intends to live abroad [253]

62 Sussex Gardens, SW2 [Paddington, W2?] HILLIER, Emma (42), Typist, ‘A’ class, from Bermuda, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [336]

30 Upper Berkeley Street, Marylebone, W8 [should be W1?] JULUMSINGH, Arthur (50), Civil Servant, and his wife Mavis (37), H D, ‘A’ class, from Trinidad; do not intend to live permanently in England, but in other parts of the British Empire [41-42]

Dorset Regiment, c/o War Office, W1 CLIFT, Winifred (32), H D, ‘A’ class, with Christopher (6) and Gabriella (2), from England, embarked at Kingston, intend to live in England [135-137]

Gloster Regiment, c/o War Office, W1 MAYELL, Mary (33), Joan (10), James (7) and John (5), ‘A’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intend to live in England [203- 206] MUNRO, Edith (30), H D, with Maureen (10), Sandra (5) and Keith (3), ‘A’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intend to live in England [213-216]

RAMC, c/o War Office, W1 DURK, Olive (35), wife, H D , ‘A’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [142] DAY, Barbara (34), wife, H D, with Merle (7) and Michael (2), ‘A’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [143- 145] HALL, Elsie (48), H D, and Grace (15), Student, ‘A’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [172-173]

RAPC, c/o War Office, W1 TRAYLEN, Julita (26), H D with Cedric (4), Stewart (2) and Neil (1), ‘A’ class, from England, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [247-250]

90 40 Westbourne Gardens, W2 HAHAWANY, Sheriffe (12), Scholar, ‘A’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, does not intend to live permanently in England, but in other parts of the British Empire [171]

50 Westbourne Park Villas, W2 CAMPBELL, Margaret (63), Nurse, ‘A’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [139]

Whitehall Hotel, WC1 WEATHERHEAD, Henry (49), Medical, Annie (51), H D, and Annie P (18), Student; ‘A’ class, from Barbados, embarked at Trinidad, do not intend to live permanently in England, but in other parts of the British Empire [100-102]

C/o Glyn Wills and Co, Whitehall, SW BULLOCK, John (61), Retired, ‘A’ class, from England, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [115]

28 Wimpole Street, W1 BARROW, Linda (38), Dressmaker, ‘A’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [124]

3RD CLASS 52 Cadogan Square, W1 BEECHER, Frank (22), Waiter, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [561] SPENCE, Renford (22), Waiter, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [876] see also 1st class

83 Cleveland Street, Marylebone, W1 BROWN, Aston (31), Fitter, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [529]

Colonial Club, London BRUCE, Lisco[?] (26), Cabinet Maker, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [532] CLARKE, Winston (23), Cabinet Maker, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [600] FERGUSON, Richard (36), Painter, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [647] GRANT, Joseph (29), Plumber, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [659] GRANT, Joscelyn (24), Carpenter, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [660] MCPHERSON, George (16), Carpenter, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [776] NELSON, Winston (23), Plumber, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [793]

91 sources for black & asian history at westminster city archives

WALLEN, Adolphine (21), Clerk, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [923]

c/o Director of Colonial Scholars/Studies, Colonial Office, W1 BRODERICK, Cleveland (38), Engineer, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [558] WHITE, Rudyard (24), Student, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [906]

4 Cramer Street, Marylebone, W1 LECKY, Clinton (25), Nurse, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [735]

12 Denman Street, W1 EVANS, Leopold (45), Builder, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [641]

21 Drury Lane, WC PRESTON, Norman (24), Mechanic, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England

22 Hanover Street, W1 JOHNSON, Henry (33), Singer, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [709]

22 Hanson Street, W1 WALKER, Vivian (35), Musician, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [926]

104 Inverness Terrace, Paddington, W2 KADIR, Mohamed (27), Clerk, ‘C’ Class, from British Guiana, embarked at Trinidad, intends to live in England [466] OSBORNE, Philip (24), Electrician, ‘C’Class, from British Guiana, embarked at Trinidad, intends to live in England [476]

31 Lisson Street, Marylebone, NW1 DUNKLEY, Hubert (39), Carpenter, ‘C class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [629] 18 Marlborough Hill, Marylebone, NW8 ROACH, Llewellyn (23), Mechanic, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [846]

11 Newton Road, Paddington, W2 SINGH, Dalip (26), Medical, ‘C’ class, from Edinburgh, embarked at Trinidad, intends to live in England [489]

92 21 Nottingham Cresent, NW [Marylebone?] LAWSON, Edward (21), Clerk, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [778]

6 St Martin’s Lane PEART, Everard (30), Polisher, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [811]

Colonial Welfare Dept, 6 St Martin’s Place, WC2 ANGUS, Alva (32), Fitter, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [512] RICHARDSON, Vernon (19), Mechanic, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [822]

6 St Martin’s Square, WC2 BROWN, Joscelyn (21), Mechanic, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [531] VALENTINE, Cleveland (27), Carpenter, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [903]

196 Shirland Road, W9 AUSTIN, Edison (25), Clerk, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [517] PALMA, George (27), Clerk, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [816]

60 Cambridge Court, Sussex Gardens, Paddington, W2 PORTER, John (30), Musician, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [815]

181 Sutherland Ave, W9 BAROVIER, Tino (19), Student, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [548]

54 Upper Brook Street, W1 MCFADEN, Vincent (26), Valet, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [750]

15 Warrington Crescent, Paddington, W9 WALTERS, Aubrey (26), Artist, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [919]

15 Warrington Street, Paddington, W9 MCMURRIN, Renfrew (25), Tailor, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [758]

112 Westbourne Park Road, Paddington, W2 BLAKE, Frederick (47), Carpenter, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [553] BLAKE, Linton (42), Tailor, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [538] GRAHAM, Cyril (38), Hotel worker, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England

93 sources for black & asian history at westminster city archives

Wimpole Street, W1 POWELL, Gerlad (23), Draughtsman, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [814]

9 Wimpole Street, W1 LAMBERT, James (28), Moulder, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [726] MARTIN, Owen (21), Mechanic, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [761] MAY, Verley (26), Seaman, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [773] MCDONALD, Joslin (24), Carpenter, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [788]

77 Wimpole Street, Marylebone, W1 CHRISTIE, Lawford (21), Clerk, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [607] GORDON, Reginald (32), Plumber, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [667] JOSEPHS, Percival (38), Mechanic, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [703] TINGLING, Egbert (22), -, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [891] WILLIAMS, Aston (23), Fitter, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [932] WILLIAMS, Barrington (23), Carpenter, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [927]

WRIGHT, Louis (23), Plumber, ‘C’ class, from Jamaica, embarked at Kingston, intends to live in England [924]

94 14. SELECT BOOK LIST

Items listed below are available at the Archives Centre. The Westminster Libraries & Archives union book catalogue can be searched online at:

www.westminster.gov.uk/libraries

Pre-twentieth century writings Wonderful adventures of Mrs Seacole in many lands, Alexander, Ziggi and Dewjee, Audrey (eds) (Falling Wall Press, 1984 - first published 1859) [920 Sea]

Carretta, Vincent (ed): Unchained voices: an anthology of Black authors in the English-speaking world of the 18th century (University Press of Kentucky; 1996) [820.80960903]

Includes writing by James Gronniosaw, Phillis Wheatley, Francis Williams, Ignatius Sancho, John Marrant, Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Olaudah Equiano, David George and Boston King.

Cugoano, Quobna Ottobah: Thoughts and sentiments on the evil of slavery and other writings, ed Vincent Carretta (New York, Penguin Putnam Inc, 1999)

Dickens, C ‘Travels in the East’, All the year round (1884); reprinted in J Marriott and M Matsumura: The metropolitan poor: semi-factual accounts, 1795-1910, (Pickering & Chatto, 1999, vol 6, pp 166-169) [305.569]

Equiano, Olaudah Equiano’s travels: the interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African, ed Paul Edwards (Heinemann, 1996) [920 Equ]

Equiano, Olaudah: The interesting narrative and other writings, ed Vincent Carretta, (Penguin, 1995) [920 Equ]

Equiano, Olaudah: The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, (Dover Pubs, New York) 1999 [920 Equ]

Humphry, Rev. W. G., vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields: India (1857) [Local Pamphlets A1-9, 942.11 (08)]

Mahomed, Dean: The travels of Dean Mahomet, in: Fisher, Michael, H: The first Indian author in English: Dean Mahomed (1759-1851) in India, Ireland and England, (OUP, 1996) [920 Mahomed]

Mayhew, Henry: Tom-tom players, Another tom-tom player, Street negro serenaders, Statement of another Ethiopian serenader, in London labour and the London poor, vol.111, p185-194 (Dover, 1968);[ 301.441]

Mayhew, Henry: Prostitution among the barbarous nations, Prostitution among the semi-civilised nations, in London labour and the London poor, vol.IV, p58-160 (Dover, 1968);[ 301.441]

95 sources for black & asian history at westminster city archives

Parkinson, J C ‘Lazarus, lotus-eating’, from Places and people, being studies from Life (1869); reprinted in J Marriott and M Matsumura, The metropolitan poor: semi- factual accounts, 1795-1910 (Pickering & Chatto, 1999, vol 2, pp250-269) [305.569]

Rush, Richard A residence at the Court of London (London, 1833); [942.11(96)]

Account of envoy from USA, 1817-25, including mention of negotiations with Castlereagh over slaves taken away after War of Independence, and the international slave trade

Salter, J : The Asiatic in England: sketches of 16 years work among Orientals, (1873); two chapters reprinted in J Marriott and M Matsumura, The metropolitan poor: semi-factual accounts, 1795-1910 (Pickering & Chatto, 1999, vol 5, pp 200- 250) [305.569]

Salter, J: The East in the West, or, work among the Asiatics and Africans in London (1896); extracts reprinted in J Marriott and M Matsumura, The metropolitan poor: semi-factual accounts, 1795-1910 (Pickering & Chatto, 1999, vol 6, pp 373-399) [305.569]

Sancho, Ignatius: Letters of the late Ignatius Sancho, an African, ed Vincent Carretta, (Penguin, 1998) [920 San]

Sancho, Ignatius The letters of Ignatius Sancho, ed Paul Edwards and Polly Rewt, Edinburgh University Press, 1994 [920 San]

Smith, J T Vagabondiana: or anecdotes of mendicant wanderers through the streets of London, with portraits of the most remarkable, drawn from the life (London, 1817, pp33-36) [FF301.441-S]

Wedderburn, Robert: The horrors of slavery and other writings, ed Iain McCalman, (Edinburgh University Press, 1991) [326]

General Alexander, Z and Dewjee, A: Roots in Britain: Black and Asian citizens from Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II (Brent Library Service, 1980) [pam 323.1196042]

Barber, B.J.: Hidden Lives: celebrating the Black presence in Westminster 1500- 2000, (Westminster City Archives, 2000) (942.132]

Barber, B.J.: Famous Black and Asian people in Westminster (2002); [Typescript pam]

Black history in Westminster and the Green Plaques scheme (Westminster City Council, 2004)

Brooks, Dennis: Race and labour in London Transport (Institute of Race Relations/OUP, 1975); [301.451]

Bygott, David W: Black and British (Oxford University Press, 1992) [F305.896-HC]

Celebrating Black and Asian history in Bexley: teacher's pack (London borough of Bexley, nd); [F305.896]

96 Chater, Kathy: ‘Hidden from History: black people in parish records’, Genealogists’ Magazine, vol 26 (no 10), June 2000, pp381-385 Dabydeen, David: The Black presence in English literature (Manchester University Press, 1985)

Davison, R B: Black British: immigrants to England (Oxford University Press for the Institute of Race Relations, 1966) [301.451]

Dabydeen, David: Hogarth’s Blacks: images of Blacks in eighteenth century English art (Manchester University Press, 1987)

Delivering shared heritage: the Mayor's Commission on African and Asian heritage (GLA 2005]; [RL]

Eade, Paul: Placing London: from imperial capital to global city (2000); [942,11]

Edwards, Paul: ‘The history of Blacks in Britain’, History today, Sep 1981, pp 33-51 [F323.1196042]

The expansion of England: race, ethnicity and cultural history, edited by Bill Schwarz (Routledge, 1996); [305.82]

File, Nigel and Power, Chris: Black settlers in Britain 1555-1958 (Heinemann, 1981) [305.8-HC]

Fraser, Peter: Before Windrush: the early Black presence in Hammersmith and Fulham (LBHF, 2000)

Forrest, Denys: The Oriental: life story of a West End club (Batsford,1979); [367.9421]

Fryer, Peter: Staying power: The history of Black people in Britain (London, Pluto Press 1984) [942.00496]

Fryer, Peter: Aspects of British Black history (Index Books, 1993); [941.00496]

Geelhood, Lisa: Celebrating Black presence in Wandsworth: teacher resource pack (London borough of Wandsworth, 2000?); [F305.896]

Graves, Charles: Champagne and chandeliers: the story of the Café de Paris, (Odhams, 1958) [394.12-S]

References to black performers at the club during the 1920s and 30s. Ken ‘Snake-Hips’ Johnson (from British Guiana) and his band were performing on the night a bomb hit the club, killing 87 people, including Johnson.

Greater London Council: A history of the Black presence in London (GLC, 1986) [F305.896]

Green, Jeffrey: Black Edwardians: Black people in Britain 1901-1914 (Frank Cass, 1998); [941.00496]

Gerzina, Gretchen: Black England: life before emancipation (Allison & Busby, 1999); [305.896042]

97 sources for black & asian history at westminster city archives

Hasted, Rachel and Bell, Rachel: Unlocking the archives: finding sources for Caribbean, Black and Asian British history, Record Keeping, Summer 2005, pp 12- 16) Holder, Heide J: Other Londoners - race and class in plays of nineteenth-century London life, in Imagined Londons, Pamela K. Gilbert ed. (State University of New York, 2002); [942.1]

Holmes, Colin: John Bull's island: immigration and British society 1871-1971 (Macmillan, 1988); [301.328]

Imperial Institute 1887-1956 (Imperial Institute, 1956); [942.144]

Layton-Henry, Zig: The politics of immigration: immigration, 'race' and 'race' relations in post-war Britain (Blackwell, 1992); [325.41]

Leeser, Rachel, et al: Without prejudice: exploring ethnic differences in London (GLA, 2000); [F305.8]

London: the promised land? - the migrant experience in a capital city, edited by Anne J. Kershen (Avebury, 1997); [304.8421]

McCalman, Iain: Radical underworld: prophets, revolutionaries and pornographers in London, 1795-1840 (Cambridge University Press, 1988) [320.51]

Maginn, Paul J.: Urban regeneration, community power and the (in)significance of 'race' (Ashgate, 2004); [307.3416]

Martin, S I: Britain’s slave trade (Channel 4 Books, 1999) [306.3620941]

Merriman, Nick (ed): The peopling of London: fifteen thousand years of settlement from overseas (Museum of London, 1993) [F304.8421]

Myers, Norma: Reconstructing the Black past: Blacks in Britain c1780-1830 (Frank Cass, 1996) [941.00496]

Ohene-Djan, Josephine: London's 'clippies' on the buses 1945-1995 : a womens' oral history (1999);[ 942.11(62)]

Okokon, Susan: Black Londoners 1880-1990 (Sutton, 1998); [305.8960421]

Panayi, Panikos: Cosmopolis: London's ethnic minorities, in London: from Punk to Blair, Joe Kerr & Andrew Gibson eds. (Reakton Books, 2003); [942.1085]

Patterson, Sheila: Immigrants in London: report of a study group set up by the London Council of the Social Service (National Council of Social Service, 1963); [301.451]

Phillips, Mike and Phillips, Trevor: Windrush: the irresistible rise of multi-racial Britain, (Harper Collins, 1999); [305.896]

Phillips, Mike: London crossings: a biography of Black Britain (Continuum, 2001); [942.11 (97)]

Rich, Paul, ‘Blacks in Britain: response and reaction 1945-62’, History Today, January 1986 [pam 301.451]

98

Sandhu, Sukhdev: London calling: how Black and Asian writers imagined a city (Harper Collins, 2003); [941.00496]

Schneer, Jonathan: London 1900: the imperial metropolis, (Yale University Press, 1999) [942.11(96)]

Sherwood, Marika & Spafford, Martin: Whose freedom were Africans, Caribbeans and Indians defending in World War II? (Savannah, 1999); [F941.084]

Sherwood, Marika: 'Black people in Tudor England' (History Today, Oct 2003); [Pam]

A ship and a prayer: the Black presence in Hammersmith and Fulham, edited by Stephen Bourne and Sav Kyriacou (LBHF, 1999)

Walvin, James: Black and white: the negro and English society 1555-1945 (Allen Lane, 1973) [305.896]

Africa & the Caribbean Adi, Hakim: The history of the Africa and Caribbean communities in Britain (Wayland, 1995) [305.896-HC]

Adi, Hakim: West Africans in Britain 1900-1960: nationalism, pan-africanism and communism (Lawrence & Wishart, 1998) [305.891411]

Africans in Britain, David Killingray ed. (Frank Cass, 1994); [942.00496]

Ali, Nisa: ‘Black History Month pays tribute to William Davidson’, Unison focus, 25 Oct 1996, pp4-5 [pam 742.014]

Caretta, Vincent: Friends of freedom: three African-British men of letters in eighteenth-century Westminster, in Westminster History Review 3 (1999)

The Caribbean at war: 'British West Indians' in World War II, edited and researched by Oliver Marshall (The North Kensington Archive at the Notting Dale Urban Studies Centre, 1992)

The Caribbean in Europe: aspects of the West Indian experience in Britain, France and the Netherlands edited by Colin Brock (Frank Cass, 1983); [301.45196]

Castor, Harriet: Mary Seacole (Franklin Watts, 1999) [610.92-HC]

Claudia Jones 1915-1964 (Cultural Exchange Through Theatre in Education, 1996)

Craven, Anna: West Africans in London (Institute of Race Relations, 1968); [301.451]

Dewhurst, Sir John: Queen Charlotte’s: the story of a hospital (QCH, 1989?; [362.1193]

Out of 8,768 women cared for by the lying-in hospital at Marylebone, 1752- 1768, 54 were from ‘Virginia, Jamaica, Barbados, St Kits and other West Indian Islands’ and 11 from East Indian colonies and settlements.

99 sources for black & asian history at westminster city archives

Ellis, John D: A revolutionary activist in his own cause: William Affleck of the 10th Hussars (2002); [Westminster History Review 5, forthcoming]

Born in St Kitts, West Indies c1787, William Affleck enlisted as a trumpeter in the 10th Hussars at Hounslow, Middlesex, 1801. Served at the battle of Waterloo. After his discharge in 1819 he was a Chelsea pensioner, receiving 9d a day. Worked as a barber at St George's Hospital, where he died in 1855.

Fraser, Peter: Africans and Caribbeans in London, in The peopling of London: fifteen thousand years of settlement from overseas (Museum of London, 1993); [F304.8421]

Foner, Nancy: Jamaican migrants in London (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979); [301.45196]

Glass, Ruth: Newcomers: the West Indians in London (CUS, 1960); [301.451]

Grannum, Guy: Tracing your West Indian ancestors (Public Record Office, 2002); [929.1]

Grant, Joan: ‘William Brown and other women: Black women in London c1740-1840’, in Women, migration and empire, ed Joan Grant (Threntham Books, 1996) [305.4]

Green, Jeffrey: ‘John Alcindor (1873-1924): A migrant’s biography, in Immigrants and minorities, vol 6(2), July 1987, pp174-189 [pam 920 ALC]

Griffiths, David J: Somali and Kurdish refugees in London: new identities in the diaspora (Ashgate, 2002); [305.891597]

Hooker, J.R: Henry Sylvester Williams, imperial pan-africanist (Collings, 1975); [320.5092 WILL]

King, Reyahn et al: Ignatius Sancho: an African man of letters (National Portrait Gallery, 1997) [920 San]

James, C.L.R: Letters from London (Signal Books, 2003) [920 James]

Huntley, Eric L: Two lives: Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole, Bogle- (L’Ouverture Press, 1993) [610.92-HC]

Hussein, Shamis: Somalis in London, in The peopling of London: fifteen thousand years of settlement from overseas (Museum of London, 1993); [F304.8421]

Inside Babylon: the Caribbean diaspora in Britain edited by Winston James and Clive Harris (Verso, 1993); [305.896]

Mathurin, Owen C: Henry Sylvester Williams and the origins of the Pan-African movement, 1869-1911 (Greenwood Press, 1976)

Olaudah Equiano & Ignatius Sancho (Cultural Exchange Through Theatre in Education, 1996)

Porter, Stephen D: Jamaican records: a two part guide to genealogical and historical research using repositories in Jamaica and England (Stephen D. Porter, 1999); [929.37292]

100 Malam, John: Mary Seacole:,Tell me about series no 3 (Evans Brothers Ltd, 1999) [920 Sea-HC]

Ruggles, Jeffrey: The unboxing of Henry Brown, (The Library of Virginia; 2003); [920 Brown]

Saville, John: ‘William Cuffay’ in Dictionary of labour biography, ed Joyce M Bellamy and J Saville, VI (Macmillan, 1982, pp 77-80) [Copies at Westminster Reference Library and Marylebone Information Service]

Sherwood, Marika, et al: Claudia Jones: a life in exile (Lawrence and Wishart, 1999); [920 Jones]

Taylor, Clare: ‘The Journal of an absentee proprietor: Nathaniel Phillips of Slebech’, typescript, Aberystwyth, 1979 (original diary contains information about West Indian Plantation owners who formed a social community, with their slaves, in Marylebone in the 1780s and 90s is at NLW: Slebech Papers nos.4292-4302) [pam 920 PHI]

Taylor, Clare: ‘Planter Attitudes to the American and French Revolutions’, The National Library of Wales Journal, vol XXI, no 2, Winter 1979, pp113-130 [pam 942.151]

35 years of the Africa Centre in London [nd]; [Pam 942.1374]

Western, John: A passage to England: Barbadian Londoners speak of home (UCL Press, 1992); [920.04211]

Worrall, David: 'Some ultra-radicals: Robert Wedderburn, man of colour', in Radical culture: discourse, resistance and surveillance 1790-1820 (Wayne State University Press, 1992) [322.420941]

South Asia Beckingham, C F: ‘A History of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1823-1973’, The Royal Asiatic Society: its history and treasures, 1979 [pam 942.151]

De Souza, Allan: The Sikhs in Britain (Batsford, 1986) [305.6946-HC]

Desh Pardesh: the south Asian presence in Britain, Roger Ballard ed. (Hurst & Company, 1999); [305.89543]

Fisher, Michael H: Asians in Westminster during the early nineteenth century (1999); [Westminster History Review 5, forthcoming]

Fisher, Michael: The first Indian author in English: Dean Mahomed (1759-1851) in India, Ireland, and England (OUP, 1996); [920 Mahomed]

Lahiri, Shompa: Indians in Britain: Anglo-Indian encounters, race and identity, 1880- 1930 (Frank Cass, 1999); [305.891411]

Mannick, A.R: Mauritians in London (Dodo Books, 1987); [301.4519661]

Political construction of diasporic communities in the global city, by John Eade, Isabelle Fremeaux, and David Garbin, in Imagined Londons, Pamela K. Gilbert ed. (State University of New York, 2002); [942.1]

101 sources for black & asian history at westminster city archives

Sims, G.R: 'Indian and colonial London', in Living London, vol.3(2) (Cassell, 1903); [F942.11(3)]

Tambs-Lyche, Harald: London Patidars: a case study in urban ethnicity (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980); [301.4519147]

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