Samuel Munckley

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1801

Biography

Bristol slave-trader, later in partnership with George Gibbs and James Richards as West India merchants in the city.

Will of Samuel Munckley merchant of Bristol proved 16/09/1801. He left monetary legacies of over £20,000 to kin and connections, notably the Duntze family in Devon (Sir John Duntze MP was his half-brother) and the family of his partner George Gibbs of Bristol.

Sources

PROB 11/1363/80.

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Legacies Summary

Commercial (2)

Partner

John Freeman and Copper Company

Name partner in Munckley, Gibbs abd Richards

Gibbs, Bright & Co. previously George Gibbs & Son
West India merchant

Relationships (2)

Samuel Munckley

Business partners

George Gibbs senior of Bristol

Samuel Munckley

Business partners

James Richards of Bristol

Further Information

People of Interest

Coco Sandiford

1810 - ????

Enslaved young woman in St Peter, Barbados. Manumitted on the eve of Emancipation. Married a butcher in Speightstown.

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Documents of Interest

Windsor and Williamsfield Inventory of Slaves 1814 p8

Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.

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CITING THIS RECORD:
'Samuel Munckley', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146663903 [accessed 4th October 2024].

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