John Watson Borradaile

1. City merchant and evidently a wealthy man. In 1851 he was living with his family (his wife, Ann, 4 daughters and a son), and 4 servants - a butler, cook and 2 housemaids, in Dulwich.

Family:

He was the son of William Borradaile (1750-1831) and Ann Delapierre 1770-1818. On 4 December 1823 he married Ann Stevens Pullen. Their children were: Jane (1826-), Emma (1829-), Grace (1830-), Thomas (1832-), Frances (1835-). All were born, like their father, in the parish of St Gabriel, Fenchurch, London.

At some point in the 1840s they moved from St Gabriel, Fenchurch to 7 Park Place, Dulwich, Camberwell, Surrey.

1. Little is known about him otherwise. He was a director of London Assurance, 1819 (and possibly earlier)-1857 and a steward of the Marine Society, a charity for assisting young men to go to sea.

1. Ancestry.com: 1841 & 1851 England Censuses [database on-line].

2. London Assurance: Morning Chronicle, 12 July 1819; Morning Post, 17 July 1857; Marine Society: Morning Chronicle, 16 April 1817.