UCL

Francis Ceal

Profile & Legacies Summary

1790 - 1871

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

  1. Probably the Francis Ceal who was a tea-dealer at 5 St Swithins Lane but his path to acting as assignee of Mordecai Palach[e] (who appears to have been a Jamaican resident) is unclear.  A Francis Ceal appears with Robert Wild as cider-merchants of Seething Lane, small creditors of Robert Bogle senior, Robert Bogle junior, and William Scott (who were bankrupts in 1772). This may be the father of the Francis Ceal in the compensation records.

  2. Francis Ceal retired tea-merchant aged 71 appears in the 1861 census at 5 Castle Street in Dover, and his death aged 81 was registered at Dover in September 1871. Pallots Marriage Index 1780-1837 shows a Francis G[?] Ceal marrying an Esth [or possibly Elizabeth] Moravia in London in 1824.


Sources

  1. Pigotts Directory 1832-4 and P.O. Directory 1840. London Gazette, Issue 17409, 17/10/1818, p. 1862.

  2. 1861 census online. FreeUKGen, England & Wales FreeBMD Index, 1837-1915 [database online]. Pallots Marriage Index 1780-1837.

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish
Occupation
Tea dealer

Associated Claims (1)

Jamaica Manchester 125A & B (Berry Hill)
£1,767 12s 3d
Awardee (Assignee)
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Associated Estates (1)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Assignee
Berry Hill [ Jamaica | Manchester ]

Legacies Summary

Commercial (1)

Firm Investment
Francis Ceal
Tea Dealer  
 
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