John Bradshaw

Antigua merchant, partner in John Bradshaw & Co., who with Samuel Misson Richards (q.v.) appears to have bought up numerous small claims in Antigua, the compensation for which was assigned to Bradshaw and Richards.

1. Probate of the estate of John Bradshaw late of the Island of Antigua who died 01/02/1861 awarded with limitations to Horace Turner of Grassendale Liverpool one of the executors 04/09/1863, effects under £2000. There appears to have been a Liverpool nexus, since the marriage of Samuel Misson Richards was registered there Q2 1859.

T71/877 Antigua claim nos. 145, 160, 312, 486 (Little Sion (?), Belfast division), 487A [&B] (Sion Hill), 520, 521, 522, 523, 538A&B, 541, 557, 572, 576, 578, 581, 583, 592, 593, 610, 632, 637, 663, 685A&B, 696, 718, 727A&B, 729, 733, 760, 895, 910, 927, 929A&B, 980A&B, 1002, 1012, 1049 and 1052.

T71/1592 p. 222 shows a letter [n.d.?] from the Commissioners of Slave Compensation to John Bradshaw & Co. Antigua.

1. National Probate Calendar 1863; FreeUKGen, England and Wales Free BMD Database, Marriages, 1837-1983 [database online].