Joseph Marryat

1. London merchant and son of Joseph Marryat (1757-1824 of Malvern House Sydenham) [q.v.], and brother of the novelist Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) and of Charles Marryat (b. Sydenham 1803, d. 1884 St George Hanover Square) [q.v.]. Born Grenada c. 1791, d. St George Hanover Square Sept. 1876. Married Mary Lindsay St George Hanover Square 19/10/1819.

2. Retired from Joseph Marryat and Sons (q.v.) 01/05/1849. Appears subsequently as active in Welsh iron industry and as banker with Price, Marryat, which failed in 1866. 1861 census shows him at Ystradglynais and describes him (aged 70) as 'Justice of the Peace, Banker in London and proprietor of an ironworks', born West Indies Grenada. London Gazette (1866) shows the assignment by Sir Charles Rugge Price and Joseph Marryat to assignees for the benefit of their creditors. Joseph Marryat and Sir Charles Price had developed the pre-existing Ynys-Cedwyn Ironworks under the name of the Ynyscedwyn Iron Company, floated on the Stock Exchange in 1864 and subject to sequential liquidations and restructurings in 1869, 1870 1877 and 1881.

3. Member of the West India Committee and the 'Committee of April 25, 1823' formed to press the government for ameliorationist measures for the Crown colonies and to resist moves towards emancipation.

4. Joseph Marryat II lived at 6 Richmond Terrace 1826-34, 1842-52.

5. Will of Joseph Marryat formerly of Maes-y-dderwen Swansea Vale in County of Brecon but late of 61 Warwick Street who d. 24/09/1876, effects under £4000.

6. Mary widow of Joseph late of 61 Warwick St Pimlico d. 29/08/1882, personal estate £6837 2s 4d.

7. Joseph Henry Marryat [the son of Charles Marryat] late of the Cottage Earlswood Common Redhill and of 6 Laurence-Pountney Lane merchant, d. 29/11/1881 personal estate £9611 10s 11d; and Anne Cranmer Marryat (wife of Joseph Henry Marryat) late of Knowle Clist St George Devon who died 31/01/1873 at Earlswood, personal estate £11,726.

8. Charles Marryat of 6 Laurence Pountney Lane and 75 Eccleston Square d. 07/10/1884 personal estate £25,060 15s 4d.

T71/893 Trinidad claim nos. 643A-C and 697A & B; T71/894 Trinidad claim nos. 1235, 1245A (Mt Hope), 1781 (Reform), 1783 (Union Estate) and 1784 (Marabella Estate); T71/884 St Lucia claim nos. 329 (Mt Pleasant), 369A, 547 (Diamond), 760, 764, 775 (Anse Matriant), 800 (Vieux fort) and 824A-E (Pointe Sable); T71/880 Grenada claim nos. 683 (Mount Rodney Estate) and 762 (Gouyave (?) and Maran Estates); T71/856 St Mary claim no. 307 (Greenwood Estate).

1. For Marryat senior, see David Killingray, 'Kent and the abolition of the slave trade: a county study, 1760s-1807', Archæologia Cantiana, CXXVII (2007), p. 113.

2. London Gazette, Issue 20973, 01/05/1849, p. 1436; 1861 census online; London Gazette, Issue 23137, 13/07/1866, p. 4003; West Glamorgan Archive Services, Industry Deeds GB 0216 DD 4ISC Yniscedwyn Iron, Steel and Coal Co. Ltd https://archiveswales.llgc.org.uk/anw/get_collection.php?coll_id=77120&inst_id=34&term=joseph%20marryat [accessed 07/10/2016].

3. Alexandra Franklin, Enterprise and advantage: The West India interest in Britain, 1774-1840 (University of Pennsylvania, Unpub. PhD, 1992), p. 214 citing West India Committee Minute Books, 25 April 1823.

4. 'Richmond Terrace', Survey of London: volume 13: St Margaret, Westminster, part II: Whitehall I (1930), ed. Montagu H. Cox and Philip Norman, pp. 249-256. British History Online Date accessed: 24 June 2010.

5. National Probate Calendar 1876.

6. National Probate Calendar 1882.

7. National Probate Calendar 1882.

8. National Probate Calendar 1884.