HCA 30/636 wishlist
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
- Price volatility?
- Volumes?
- Specialist commodity exchanges?
2. Profile the part-owners and freighters of the Abraham of London
- 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
- ACTION: Viv Weller 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
- REQUEST 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 Turnbull
7. Expand the footnote on the HCA 30/636/3 transcription wiki page for Kinsale, Ireland.
- Research and summarise the importance of Kinsale as an Irish port in the 1H C17th.
- WISHED BY Colin Greenstreet
8. Create oblong snippets of signatures, markes and/or initials used by mariners on the Abraham
- Create snippets and upload to Company of the Abraham list wiki page, formatting to a standard width (I suggest 500 pixels) and adding the source and brief description
- For wiki markup to do this it is the same as when you uploaded your photos for your wiki profiles
- WISHED BY Colin Greenstreet
9. Create a consolidated price list for commodities brought to Barbados in the Abraham and sold there
- Use data from the factors ledger book for the Abrahm on Barbados (HCA 30/636/4)
- Express the prices in pounds of tobacco
- If you want to volunteer to do this (probably an hour's work), and don't know how to create a new wiki page and to link it to other pages, ask Colin or Charlie and they will show you how
- WISHED BY Colin Greenstreet
10. Research the tobacco market in the 1620s and 1630s
- Look at English, Dutch, Spanish, French cultivation of tobacco [Where? When started? What volumes?]
- How did plantation systems differ between English, Dutch, Spanish and French tobacco plantations?
- WISHED BY Colin Greenstreet
