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St Keyne Church, Kenwyn, Cornwall, England

Headstone at St Keyne Church, Kenwyn, Cornwall commemorating Joseph Antonio Emidy d. 1835

Location

St Keyne Church, Kenwyn, Cornwall, England

Transcript

‘HERE LIE DEPOSITED / The mortal remains of Mr Jos:h Antonia Emidy / Who departed this life, / On the 23:rd of April 1835 / AGED 60 YEARS /
And sacred to whose memory / This tribute of affection is erected / By his surviving family. /
He was native of PORTUGAL / Which Country he quitted about / forty years since and pursuing the / Musical Profession, resided in / Cornwall until the close of / his earthly career. /
Devoted to thy soul-inspiring strains, / Sweet Music! Thee he hail'd his chief delight / And with fond zeal that shunn'd nor toil nor pain / His talent sear'd, and genius mark'd its flight / In harmony he liv'd, in peace with all / Took his departure from this world of woe, / And here his rest, till the last Trumpet's call, / Shall 'wake mankind to joys that endless flow.’

Details

Description: With a flaming urn, in relief within an oval at the top.
Type: Headstone
Position: Churchyard
Materials: Stone
Vessel: Indefatigable

People

Emidy, Joseph Antonio
Age: 60
Date of Death: 23/4/1835
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Musician
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Born in Guinea and enslaved during early life , Emidy was trained as a musician and worked for the Lisbon Opera Orchestra. He was press-ganged (or kidnapped) the orders of Sir Edward Pellew in 1795 and employed as a ship's musician rated Landsman in 'Indefatigable'. He re-enlisted voluntarily with the higher rank of Able Seaman in 'Impetueux'. After he was finally discharged in Falmouth in 1802, he worked as a composer, teacher and performer in Cornwall
Bibliography: Stephen Taylor ‘Commander: The life and exploits of Britain’s greatest frigate captain’ pp. 90-92 (London, 2012).

JSON

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  "location": "St Keyne Church, Kenwyn, Cornwall, England",
  "transcript": "‘HERE LIE DEPOSITED / The mortal remains of Mr Jos:h Antonia Emidy / Who departed this life, / On the 23:rd of April 1835 / AGED 60 YEARS /<br />\r\nAnd sacred to whose memory / This tribute of affection is erected / By his surviving family. /<br />\r\nHe was native of PORTUGAL / Which Country he quitted about / forty  years since and pursuing the / Musical Profession, resided in / Cornwall until the close of / his earthly career. /<br />\r\nDevoted to thy soul-inspiring strains, / Sweet Music! Thee he hail'd his chief delight / And with fond zeal that shunn'd nor toil nor pain / His talent sear'd, and genius mark'd its flight / In harmony he liv'd, in peace with all  / Took his departure from this world of woe, / And here his rest, till the last Trumpet's call, / Shall 'wake mankind to joys that endless flow.’<br />",
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Slavery

St Swinthun's Church, Sandford, Devon, England

Memorial at St Swinthun’s Church, Sandford, Devon commemorating Lieutenant Samuel John Hunt RN d. 1822

Location

St Swinthun's Church, Sandford, Devon, England

Transcript

‘THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF / SIR HUMPHTTRY PHINEAS DAVIE OF CREEDY, BART. / BY HIS AFFECTIONATE SISTER JULIANA. / HE WAS BORN 12TH JANUARY 1845. / THE SUBJECT ON THE TABLET ABOVE WAS SELECTED BY ONE / WHO LOVED THE DECEASED, AS EXPRESSIVE OF HIS CHARACTER; / THE SPIRIT OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN HAVING BEEN ENGRAVED ON HIS HEART/ AND MANIFESTED THROUGH LIFE IN HIS ACTIONS. / ‘BUT TO DO GOOD, AND TO COMMUNICATE, FORGET NOT, FOR WITH SUCH / SACRIFICES GOD IS WELL PLEASED” HEB. XIII -16’ [On apron] ‘ALSO TO THE MEMORY OF THE FOUR SISTERS OF THE ABOVE / CATHERINE; WIDOW OF JOSEPH HUNT, ESQR. / BORN 3RD MAY 1765, DIED 3RD OCTOBER 1833. / JULIANA, BORN 12TH MAY 1766, DIED 16TH APRIL 1847 / ELIZABETH BAPTIZED 29TH MAY 1767, BURIED 17TH NOVEMBER 1792. / FRANCES, BAPTIZED 3RD AUGUST 1768, DIED 11TH MARCH 1827 / AND TO S.J. HUNT, LIEUT. R.N. OF H.M.S. MYRMIDON, BACHELOR, / SON OF THE ABOVE NAMED CATHERINE AND JOSEPH HUNT, / WHO WAS BORN 7TH JANUARY 1796, / AND DIED 24TH JUNE 1822, / ON THE COAST OF AFRICA, / WHILST IN THE SERVICE OF HIS COUNTRY.’

Details

Description: Wall monument, a relief depicting the parable of the good Samaritan above the inscription panel. At the, top the Davie crest between volutes, The who flanked by pillars supported by brackets.
Type: Wall monument
Materials: Marble
Artists: Edward Bowring Stephens
Vessel: HMS Myrmidon

People

Hunt, Samuel John
Age: 26
Date of Death: 24/6/1822
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: HMS 'Myrmidon' engaging in supressing the slave trade at this time.
Recorder: Professor Norman Hammond & Dr J. L. Wilson
Photographer: Professor Norman Hammond

JSON

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    "recorder": "Professor Norman Hammond & Dr J. L. Wilson",
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Slavery

St Olave's Church, Hart Street, City of London, England

Statue at St Olave’s, City of London depicting Sir Andrew Riccard d. 1672, Chairman of the East India Company

Location

St Olave's Church, Hart Street, City of London, England

Transcript

‘Sacred be the statue here raised by Gratitude & Respect / to eternise the Memory of Sir ANDREW RICCARD Knt. A Citizen & opulent Merchant of London. Whose active Piety inflexible / Integrity & extensive Abilities alike distinguished & exalted Him in the Opinion / of the Wise and Good. Adverse to his Wish, He was frequently chosen / Chairman, / of the Honourable East India Company and filled with equal Credit for / eighteen successive Years the same eminent station in the Turkey Company / Among many Instances of his Love to GOD and liberal Spirit towards Man, one as it / demands peculiar Praise, deserves to be distinctly recorded. He nobly left the / perpetual Advowson of this Parish, in Trust, to five of its senior inhabitants. / He died the 6th of Septr. In the Years of our LORD 1672 of his Age 68. / Manet post Funera Virtus .’ [Below] ‘En ANDREAM RICCARDVM Eq. Aur / Civem Londoniensem & mercatorem Splendissimum / Virum Pietatis in Deum Insignis / Probitatis Erga in Deum Insignatis / Probitatis Erga Homines Eximiae / Existimationis apud omnes summae / In negotiis maxime Publicis Agendis sedulitatis indeffessiae; / Societatis Indicae Praesidem, saepius Invitum; / Societatis vero vti vulgo dicitur Turcicae Per octodecim simil Annos Dictatorem Perpetuum / Ad illius itaq/ Memoriam Societati illi praescrtim Pergratam / Monumentam Hoc Ei Honorifice Extruendum / Impensis suis illa ipsa Curavit Societas .’ [Base} ‘Corpus ejas Superiori aedis parte / intra Cancellos / Ab Australi Latere mensae sacrae / Inscripto sub Marmore Depositum est / Ubi Monumentum Hoc / Propter loci Augustias statui non point / Obiit 6to Septembris / Anno Salutis 1672 Aetatis 68’

Details

Description: Statue draped in a cloak and holding a scroll in its right hand.
Type: Statue
Position: North side of nave
Materials: Marble
Artists: John Bushnell [attributed]

People

Riccard, Andrew
Age: 68
Date of Death: 6/9/1672
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Chairman
Organisation: Honourable East India Company

Extra

Notes: Also participated in the Levant Trade and invested in the Caribbean and the Royal Africa Company.

JSON

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  "transcript": "‘Sacred be the statue here raised by Gratitude & Respect / to eternise the Memory of Sir ANDREW RICCARD Knt. A Citizen & opulent Merchant of London. Whose active Piety inflexible / Integrity & extensive Abilities alike distinguished & exalted Him in the Opinion / of the Wise and Good. Adverse to his Wish, He was frequently chosen / Chairman, / of the Honourable East India Company and filled with equal Credit for / eighteen successive Years the same eminent station in the Turkey Company / Among many Instances of his Love to GOD and liberal Spirit towards Man, one as it / demands peculiar Praise, deserves to be distinctly recorded. He nobly left the / perpetual Advowson of this Parish, in Trust, to five of its senior inhabitants. / He died the 6th of Septr. In the Years of our LORD 1672 of his Age 68. / Manet post Funera Virtus .’ [Below] ‘En ANDREAM RICCARDVM Eq. Aur / Civem Londoniensem & mercatorem Splendissimum  / Virum Pietatis in Deum Insignis / Probitatis Erga in Deum Insignatis / Probitatis Erga Homines Eximiae / Existimationis apud omnes summae / In negotiis maxime Publicis Agendis sedulitatis indeffessiae; / Societatis Indicae Praesidem, saepius Invitum; / Societatis vero vti vulgo dicitur Turcicae Per octodecim simil Annos Dictatorem Perpetuum / Ad illius itaq/ Memoriam Societati illi praescrtim Pergratam / Monumentam Hoc Ei Honorifice Extruendum / Impensis suis illa ipsa Curavit Societas .’ [Base} ‘Corpus ejas Superiori aedis parte / intra Cancellos / Ab Australi Latere mensae sacrae / Inscripto sub Marmore Depositum est / Ubi Monumentum Hoc / Propter loci Augustias statui non point / Obiit 6to Septembris / Anno Salutis 1672 Aetatis 68’",
  "content": "<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25864\" src=\"http://memorials.rmg.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/P1000474-768x1024-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://memorials.rmg.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/P1000474-768x1024-225x300.jpg 225w, https://memorials.rmg.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/P1000474-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" /></p>\n<p>Statue at St Olave’s, City of London depicting Sir Andrew Riccard d. 1672, Chairman of the East India Company</p>",
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Slavery

St Mary Woolnoth, City of London, England

Wall tablet at St Mary Woolnoth, City of London, commemorating John Newton, d. 1807

Location

St Mary Woolnoth, City of London, England

Transcript

‘JOHN NEWTON / CLERK / ONCE AND INFIDEL AND LIBERTINE / A SERVANT OF SLAVES IN AFRICA / WAS / BY THE RICH MERCY / OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR / JESUS CHRIST / PRESERVED, RESTORED, PARDONED / AND APPOINTED TO PREACH THE FAITH HE HAD LONG LABOURED TO DESTROY / HE MINISTERED / NEAR FIVE YEARS AS A CURATE AND VICAR / OF OLNEY IN BUCKS / AND XXVIII YEARS AS RECTOR / OF THESE UNITED PARISHES / ON FEBY THE FIRST MDCCL HE MARRIED / MARY / DAUGHTER OF THE LATE GEORGE CATLETT / OF CHATHAM KENT / WHOM HE RESIGNED TO THE LORD WHO GAVE HER / ON DECR THE XIV MDCCXL / THE ABOVE EPITAPH WAS WRITTEN BY THE DECEASED / WHO DIRECTED IT TO BE INSCRIBED ON A PLAIN MARBLE TABLET / HE DIED ON DECR THE 21ST 1807 / AGED 82 YEARS / AND HIS MORTAL REMAINS / ARE DEPOSITED IN THE VAULT / BENEATH THE CHURCH.’

Details

Type: Wall tablet
Position: North side of nave
Materials: Marble

People

Newton, John
Age: 82
Date of Death: 21/10/1807
Cause of Death: unknown
Rank / Occupation: master
Organisation: merchant service

Extra

Notes: Newton worked on and commanded merchant ships including those carrying slaves and for a brief period, was impressed into the Royal Navy. He became a convert to evangelical Christianity, and some while later, was ordained as a minister of the Church of England. In later life he was an active abolitionist. He is also remembered as a writer of hymns particularly 'Amazing Grace'. In 1893, the remains of Newton and his wife, were reinterred at Olney where there is a gravestone.
Recorder: Barbara Tomlinson
Photographer: Barbara Tomlinson

JSON

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  "transcript": "‘JOHN NEWTON / CLERK / ONCE AND INFIDEL AND LIBERTINE / A SERVANT OF SLAVES IN AFRICA / WAS / BY THE RICH MERCY / OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR / JESUS CHRIST / PRESERVED, RESTORED, PARDONED / AND APPOINTED TO PREACH THE FAITH HE HAD LONG LABOURED TO DESTROY / HE MINISTERED / NEAR FIVE YEARS AS A CURATE AND VICAR / OF OLNEY IN BUCKS / AND XXVIII YEARS AS RECTOR / OF THESE UNITED PARISHES / ON FEBY THE FIRST MDCCL HE MARRIED / MARY / DAUGHTER OF THE LATE GEORGE CATLETT / OF CHATHAM KENT / WHOM HE RESIGNED TO THE LORD WHO GAVE HER / ON DECR THE XIV MDCCXL / THE ABOVE EPITAPH WAS WRITTEN BY THE DECEASED / WHO DIRECTED IT TO BE INSCRIBED ON A PLAIN MARBLE TABLET / HE DIED ON DECR THE 21ST 1807 / AGED 82 YEARS / AND HIS MORTAL REMAINS / ARE DEPOSITED IN THE VAULT / BENEATH THE CHURCH.’",
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Slavery

Church of St John the Baptist, Shipton Moyne, Gloucestershire, England

Wall monument in Church of St John the Baptist, Shipton Moyne, Gloucestershire commemorating Commander Walter Estcourt RN d. 1845

Location

Church of St John the Baptist, Shipton Moyne, Gloucestershire, England

Transcript

'TO THE MEMORY OF / WALTER GRIMSTON BUCKNALL ESTCOURT, ESQR / COMMANDER IN THE ROYAL NAVY / FOURTH SON OF THOMAS GRIMSTON BUCKNALL ESTCOURT ESQR / OF ESTCOURT IN THIS PARISH / AGED THIRTY EIGHT YEARS / TWENTY FIVE OF WHICH / HE PASSED IN THE ACTIVE SERVICE OF HIS COUNTRY / HE DIED ON THE 16TH SEPTEMBER 1845 / IN COMMAND OF H.M. STEAM SLOOP ECLAIR / WHILE ON HER PASSAGE HOME / FROM THE COAST OF AFRICA / AND WAS BURIED AT SEA / DEEPLY LAMENTED BY THE SURVIVORS OF HIS CREW / WHO HAD WITNESSED HIS DEVOTED / THOUGH UNAVAILING EFFORTS / TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERINGS OF THEIR COMRADES / OF WHOM SIXTY FIVE OFFICERS AND MEN / PERISHED WITH THEIR COMMANDER / VICTIMS OF THE AFRICAN FEVER "I HAD FAINTED UNLESS I HAD BELIEVED TO SEE THE GOODNESS OF THE LORD"'

Details

Description: Inscription on a carved sail suspended from a palm tree, a sword below.
Type: Wall monument
Materials: Marble
Vessel: HMS Eclair

People

Estcourt, Walter Grimston Bucknall
Age: 38
Date of Death: 16/9/1845
Cause of Death: Infectious disease
Rank / Occupation: Commander RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Bibliography: Brian Kemp 'English Church Monuments' (London, 1980) p.191.

JSON

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Slavery

St Mary's Church, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England

Memorial in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire commemorating Jacob Theophilus Mountain d. 1827

Location

St Mary's Church, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England

Transcript

'In memory / of / Jacob Theophilus Mountain Esquire / a midshipman / on board HM ship North Star / who was drowned / off the coast of Africa / in the active discharge of his duty / October 23rd 1827 / in the fifteenth year of his age. / His sorrowing parents / have placed this tablet. / Their consolation is: / He feared his God / and knew his Saviour.'

Details

Description: A rectangular tablet with a coat of arms and motto at the top.
Type: Wall tablet
Position: Nave near west door
Materials: marble
Vessel: HMS North Star

People

Mountain, Jacob Theophilus
Age: 15
Date of Death: 23/10/1827
Cause of Death: Maritime accident
Rank / Occupation: Midshipman
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: HMS 'North Star' 1826-28 engaged in suppressing the Atlantic Slave Trade.

JSON

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Scropton, Derbyshire, England

Memorial dedicated to Admiral Sir Arthur Cuming d. 1893 in Scropton, Derbyshire.

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Scropton, Derbyshire, England

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Type: Window

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Cumming, Arthur
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Date of Death: 1893
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Admiral
Organisation: Royal Navy

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Notes: Admiral Sir Arthur Cuming 1817-1893.

In his early career, Admiral Cuming boarded and liberated slaves from a Portuguese ship.

Bibliography: David Saunders 'Maritime Memorials & Mementoes' (Yeovil, 1996), p. 108.

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St Peter's Parish Church, Liverpool, England

Memorial at St Peter’s Parish Church, Liverpool commemorating Captain William Torbett d. 1758

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St Peter's Parish Church, Liverpool, England

Transcript

'Captain William Torbett, killed at Kingston, Jamaica 12 June 1758'

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Torbett, William
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Date of Death: 12/6/1758
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Master
Organisation:

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Notes: From a MS in Liverpool Record Office compiled by James Gibson d. 1886, vol. 1, p. 299. An officer of this name commanded the 'Molly' on a slaving voyage from Liverpool to West Africa in 1755.
Recorder: Captain J. P. Brand

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St John's Church, Lancaster, Lancashire, England

Gravestone at St John’s Church, Lancaster commemorating John Nunns d. 1807

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St John's Church, Lancaster, Lancashire, England

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'In Memory of Captn JOHN NUNNS of Skerton who died at sea on the 4th October 1807 Aged 42 Years and was interred at the Island of Trinidad in the West Indies. Also of SARAH NUNNS his wife who died on the 28th July 1821 aged 55 years Also of DOROTHY RIPLEY their daughter who died the 9th October 1821 aged 29 years. Also of JANE WILSON their daughter who died on the 26th March 1822 aged 26 years also of JANE POSTLETHWAITE mother of the above SARAH NUNNS who died on the 1st June 1822 aged 92 years.'

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Description: Horizontal, plain.
Type: Gravestone
Position: Churchyard
Materials: Slate
Vessel: 'The Johns'

People

Nunns, John
Age: 42
Date of Death: 4/10/1807
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Master; owner
Organisation:

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Notes: 'The Johns' slaver owned by John Nunns, John Lowther, and John Cumpsty.
Bibliography: 'Inscriptions on Gravestones in the churchyard of St John with St Anne, Lancaster' (Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Society) Melinda Elder 'The Slave Trade and the Economic Development of Eighteenth Century Lancaster' (Halifax, 1992) p.207

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St George's Church, Portland, Dorset, England

Plaque in St George’s Church, Portland, dedicated to Benjamin Stone d. 1887

Location

St George's Church, Portland, Dorset, England

Transcript

'IN MEMORY OF / BENJAMIN E. STONE A.B. / H.M.S. TURQUOISE / WHO DIED ON THE 10TH JUNE 1887 / OF WOUNDS RECEIVED IN ACTION / AGED 19 YEARS / ERECTED BY HIS OFFICERS.'

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Type: Plaque
Position: Nave
Materials: Brass
Vessel: HMS Turquoise

People

Stone, Benjamin
Age: 19
Date of Death: 10/6/1887
Cause of Death: War casualty
Rank / Occupation: Able Seaman
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Killed in action with a slave dhow off the coast of East Africa while attempting an inspection.

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters