David Duncomb II

David Duncomb II was a partner in Bright, Milward and Duncomb of Jamaica, and in a number of related partnerships. He was the son of the slave-trader David Duncomb I (q.v.), who financed his son's entry into the Jamaican mercantile partnership. David Duncomb II died in London in 1818.

1. David Duncomb II is shown in genealogical sources as the brother of Benjamin Duncomb (q.v.). Certainly in 1818 David Duncomb late of the island of Jamaica was buried in London of Alfred Place, an address associated with Benjamin Duncomb in an indenture of 1818 on the marriage of Mary Duncomb to Henry Sabine.

2. Separately, an estate called Muff Castle in St Andrew in 1812-1818 was shown against David Duncomb: in 1820, the Muff Castle estate was registered against Robert Bright. The Bright Papers in Melbourne have a record described as Correspondence about the management of Muff Castle estate (although the document is marked George's Valley) dated 1805. No will has yet been found for either David Duncomb (d. 1818) or Benjamin Duncomb (d. 1850). 'David Duncombe' was also shown as the previous owner of The Villa in St Thomas-in-the-Vale in 1820. It remains to be confirmed whether this man was the same as David Duncomb II, but the presence of Richard Bright also in the entry for this estate in the 1820 Slave Register strongly suggests he was.

University of Melbourne, Bright Family Papers, https://digitised-collections.unimelb.edu.au/handle/11343/92255 [accessed 29/04/2019].

1. Ancestry.com, London, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-2003 for David Duncomb, Camden St Giles in the Fields, Holborn 1818-1821.

2. https://gallery.its.unimelb.edu.au/imu/imu.php?request=multimedia&irn=14833 [accessed 20/10/2017].