Peter Whitfield Brancker

Born Liverpool, the son of Thomas Brancker apothecary.  Captain in the slave-trade and then slave-trader himself 1784-1799. Probate granted at Chester, 17 Feb. 1836: personal estate £25,000. Three of his sons are shown (but see below: they are almost certainly grandsons) as being at Oxford (Henry matric. 11 May 1836 Wadham and became a clergyman; James Aspinall, matric. 20 April 1837 Wadham, 'gentleman'; and Peter Whitfield matric. Jesus 19 April 1834, also a clergyman).  Peter Whitfield Brancker made 9 voyages as captain then 29 as co-owner, variously alongside Moses Benson, the Aspinalls, Tarletons, Backhouses etc.

Peter Whitfield Brancker was a partner (with Thomas Hinde, Roger Carus and William Hadwen) in the spinning of worsted at Dolphinholme in Wyersdale County of Lancaster c. 1801.

Peter Whitfield Brancker junior is shown as a partner in the grocers Godwin, Brancker and Rice Liverpool 1810. P.W. Brancker is shown as a sugar-refiner under firm of Brancker and Davis at Liverpool 06/01/1815. P. W. Brancker and P.W. Brancker the younger are shown as retiring from Brancker & Company, sugar-refiners on 31/01/1822 and 31/01/1834 respectively, leaving Thomas and James Brancker.

NB there are therefore 3 Peter Whitfield Branckers: the slave-trader; 'the younger' presumably a son, who died late of Wavertree 06/08/1864 leaving £60,000 and the Rev. P.W. Brancker, a son of 'the younger'.

John Bolton specifies Alderman Peter Whitfield Brancker as father of Alderman Sir Thomas Brancker (d. 1853) and brother-in-law of Sir John Tobin.

David Richardson, Suzanne Schwarz and Anthony Tibbles (eds.), Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery (Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2008), Appendix 1 p. 195; Appendix 2 p. 209 and Table 7.9 p. 180; www.slavevoyages.org.

London Gazette, Issue 15905, 29/03/1806, p. 412, dissolution of partnership 01/01/1801 as far as concerns Roger Carus.

London Gazette, Issue 16342, 13/02/1810, p. 242; London Gazette, Issue 16975, 14/01/1815, p. 69; London Gazette, Issue 19160, 03/06/1834, p. 1005.

London Gazette, Issue 22952, 28/03/1865, p. 1772; National Probate Calendar 1864.

Liverpool Council, Liverpool Mercury, Friday November 22nd 1833, http:/www.old-liverpool.co.uk/LiverpoolCouncil1833.html [accessed 18/10/2010].