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HCA 30/636 wishlist

Listed in chronological order of addition of wishlist requests, together with the name of the volunteer making the wish.

1. Conduct secondary research on Middleburg, Rotterdam and Amsterdam tobacco markets in 1620s and 1630s

- Wished by Colin Greenstreet

2. Profile the part-owners and freighters of the Abraham of London

Abraham of London part-owners, HCA 30/636/5 unfol. Image: 20211008_135751

- Wished by Colin Greenstreet

Mathew Cradock (1/4)
William Pennoyer and ?Cockayne [?William Cockayne] (1/4)
Ed[ward] Merredeth (1/8)
[?XXX] Stegge (1/8)
G. Hard[?wen] and A. Hardee (1/8)
Thomas Colthurst (1/8)

Kenneth R. Andrews (1991) identifies the owners of the Abraham as Mathew Cradock, Grace Hardwyn, William Penneye [=Penoyer], Thomas Stigg (sic), Edward Meredith, Thomas Colthurst and Andrew Hardy (sic. he misses the (William) Cockayne link.

- Confirm identity of "Cockayne"
- Explore connection (if any) of Grace Hardwen [alt. Hardwyn; Hardwin; Harding(e)] and Abdrew Hary [alt. Hardee], master of the Abraham

3. Transcribe Andrew Hardie's will

- Wished by Colin Greenstreet
- Viv has volunteered to do this

4. Profile Andrew Hardy, master of the Abraham of London (b.?; d. 1638)

- Wished by Colin Greenstreet

5. Research group of planters on Barbados around Marmaduke Rawdon in the 1620s and 1630s

- Wished by Lou Roper
- ACTIONS: Colin to contact Edinburgh academic Twitter friends to see if one of the them will image relevant sections from the Hay papers
- RREQUEST TO LOU: Can you expand on this request, why it is interesting, and what the Hay papers may reveal?

6. Make register or an accessible profile of all noted merchants and their marks to help enable further research work

- Wished by Daisy Turnball