Jeremiah Osborne

Awareded the compensation for Hope estate on St Vincent after counterclaiming against the owners (the Fortescue family) with Richard Brickdale Ward as trustees and mortgagees.

1. Jeremiah Osborne of St Augustine, Bristol, married Lucy Lush Clow of St Alphege, Greenwich, 24/11/1821 in Greenwich. He was Clerk of the Society of Merchant Venturers in Bristol from 1801 until his death (jointly with his brother John until 1810 - their father Jeremiah had been Clerk from 1786 until his death in 1798).

2. In 1841, Jeremiah Osborne attorney at law aged 60 was living with his wife Lucy, Robert Osborn age 30 and Lucy Osborn age 2 at Henbury Gloucestershire. Jeremiah Osborne died 21/11/1842, "of Berwick Lodge, Henbury", aged 65 years. Will of Jeremiah Osborne gentleman of Bristol proved 01/03/1843.

T71/892 St Vincent no. 572.

1. Ancestry.com, London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 [database online]; Patrick McGrath, The merchant venturers of Bristol: a history of the Society of Merchant Venturers of the City of Bristol from its origin to the present day (1975) p 267.

2. 1841 census online; Bristol Times and Mirror 14/01/1843; PROB 11/1946.

We are grateful to Ruth Hecht for her assistance with compiling this entry.