Several of his children were baptised at St John Hackney: William Henry on 14 December 1790, Christopher on 9 February 1793, Sarah on 18 November 1794, George on 5 April 1797 and Horatio d'Esterre on. From later in the 1780s until 1801 he lived at Cambridge Heath, Hackney in Middlesex, where he purchased several houses in the vicinity of his own (77). Amongst the documents listed below is a single receipt, dated 1789, which relates to the United States of America (1), while 194 below refers to Darby's visit the United States of Americaįrom about 1785 John Darby lived in or near his business premises in Old Jewry his two eldest children, Susannah and Jonathan, were baptised at St Olave Old Jewry. Correspondence between Darby and Robert Peel, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, in 1815 concerning the duties payable by packet boats between England and Ireland, shows his continued links with Ireland (BL Add MS 40245 folios 105, 107). In a London trade directory of 1830, John Darby's firm was described as Irish Linen Factors. The details of his trading activities are tantalisingly obscure: his uncles, Damer and Japhrt, were both Dublin merchants and two of his aunts married Dublin merchants. Joseph Read seems to have died or retired in 1804 and the partnership dissolved, since from 1805 to 1811 Darby traded as Darby and Company at 7 Russia Row, Milk Street and from 1812 to 1830 as Darby, Gibb and Company From 1783 to 1804 they appeared regularly in trade directories as Read, Darby and Company, merchants. He was in London from as early as 1780, where he traded in a partnership as Read, Rigby and Darby, merchants from 31 Old Jewry, Cheapside. However, John Darby chose commerce as his career. John was born in about 1751 and in 1784 he married Anne, the daughter of Samuel Vaughan of Golden Grove in Kings Countyīoth his uncle and elder brother, George Darby (died 1790) and Henry d'Esterre Darby (1748-1823), joined the Royal Navy and rose to the rank of Admiral Henry fought alongside Nelson and distinguished himself at the Battle of the Nile in 1798. John Darby (1751-1834) was the fourth son of Jonathan Darby (1713-1776) and Susannah (died 1806), the eldest daughter of Robert Lovett of Dromoyle in Kings County and Liscombe House, Soulbury in Buckinghamshire. The Darby family originated from Gaddesby in Leicestershire and in the early 16th century they emigrated to Ireland, where they married the heiress of the O'Carrols of Leap Castle near Roscrea in Kings County (present-day County Offaly) The papers, most of which consist of correspondence from Darby's solicitors, Messrs Lambert of Bedford Row, Middlesex, and are heavily annotated by them and by Darby, concern the business activities of John Darby in London and his acquisition of lands in Warbleton, and further acquisitions of land in the parish by his son George The documents form part of what must once have been an extensive archive. It is not known how they came to be there the Darby family neither owned nor do they appear to have rented the property The documents were found by the depositor beneath his chicken coops at Cralle Place in Warbleton. Archive of the Darby family of London, Markly in Warbleton and Leap Castle, Kings County in Ireland
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