Benjamin Joseph Trueman Nightingale

London West India merchant.

1. Benjamin Joseph Truman Nightingale married Susannah Sanders 24/02/1805 at St James Clerkenwell; aged 79 of Cottage Grove Peckham buried 13/08/1858 Nunhead Cemetery Linden Grove Camberwell. Left personal effets of £1500.

2. B.G.[sic] T. Nightingale, West India mercht. 8 Artillery Place, West Finbury; B.I.[sic] T. Nightingale mercht. 8 Bunhill Row.

3. A Benjamin Nightingale, wine and spirit merchant, was a numismatist and issuer of his own tokens, dated 1843; however, he appears to have been in partnership until 1838 with John White Welch at Buckingham Street Strand.

1. Ancestry.com, London, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-1980 [database online]; children are from Ancestry.com, London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 [database online] and Ancestry.com, London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906 [database online]; Ancestry.com, London, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-1980 [database online]; National Probate Calendar 1858.

2. Robsons Directory 1835; P.O. Directory 1838.

3. http://www.abccoinsandtokens.com/Bell.Middlesex.A3.003.html [accessed 08/02/2011]; London Gazette, Issue 19581, 23/01/1838, p. 176.