John Leemkuell

John Leemkuell

John Leemkuell
Person	John Leemkuell
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First name	John
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Last name	Leemkuell
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Occupation	Merchant
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Has opening text	John Leemquell
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Res parish	Saint Michael Crooked Lane
Res town	London
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Res country	England
Birth year	1618
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Deposition start page(s)	HCA 13/63 f.429v Annotate, HCA 13/65 f.12v Annotate, HCA 13/68 f.651r Annotate
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Deposition date(s)	Oct 22 1650, Jul 28 1651, Mar 20 1654
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Silver Ship litigation in 1650s
Role in Silver Ship litigation

Biographical synthesis

John Leemkuell (alt. Leemquell, Lemkuell, Mr. Leemkuell, poss. Joachim Leemquell) (b. ca. 1617-1618; d.>= 1677). Merchant.

Probably resident in the Stillyard in 1648. Resident in the Stillyard in 1650, the parish of All Hallows the Great (in which the Stillyard was located) in 1651 and in the parish of Saint Michael Crooked Lane in 1654. "John Lemkuell" is listed as resident in "Crooked Lane" in the 1677 London directory.

Lemkuell described himself in 1650 as a Hamburger, but had been resident in London since about 1639 from the age of about twenty-two.

Lemkuell appears in Fire Court documents in 1673 in connection with the Stillyard, and is described as a member of the Hansa company.

Possibly the "Joachim Leemquell" whose August 28th 1677 testament is identified in a C19th Hamburg secondary source.

See Percy Ernst Schramm (1969) for background on the Hamburger Senatorenfamilie "Jencquel". Possibly related to "Lemkuell"?[.

Evidence from High Court of Admiralty

Thirty-two year old John Leemkuell deposed on October 22nd 1650 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined in a case concerning the ship the Brazil ffrigot. He described himself as the London factor of Christofer Polde, a Hamburg merchant, and stated that he had laden a bale of twenty pieces of bayes aboard the Brazil ffrigot at London to be transported to Lisbon and delivered there to a Dutch merchant on behalf of Polde. Lemkuell described himself as "being a Hamburger" and stated that Polde was also a native of Hamburg "of Dutch parents".

Thirty-three year old John Leemkuell deposed on July 28th 1651 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on a libel on the behalf of Peterson in the case of "Peterson against Kilvert". Leemkuell stated that he had been resident in London as a merchant for the last eleven years (so since about 1639). The case concerned the shipment of Canary wine.

Thirty-seven year old John Leemkuell deposed on March 20th 1654. He was examined on an allegation on behalf of the claimers in the case of "The Clayme of John Scothering Senator of Hamburgh and others for their goods in the Peter whereof Mathias Cornelison was Master". The case concerned a ship named the Saint Peter (Master: Mathias Cornelison) which was to go from Toulon to Genua and then to Hamburg with freight for John Scothering. The ship had been laden at Toulon by Tobias Zollicoffer, one of the family of Swiss Zollicoffer merchants. The ship, as reported by Leemkuell, was a Swedish ship and her master a Swede.

John Leemkuell stated that he had been a correspondent of the Hamburgh senator and merchant John Scothering for the last four years (so since ca. 1650). Leemkuell had received a letter from Paul Langerman, another Hamburg merchant, informing him of the lading of goods for John Scothering by Tobias Zollicoffer at Toulon. Leemkuell stated that he had received another letter from John Scothering advising him that if the ship and goods should arrive in Flanders, he, Leemkuell, was to procure a license to bring and sell the currants (or some of them) in London. In such circumstances Leemkuell was to sell the currants in London and to remit half the proceeds to John Scothering in Hamburg and half to the Zollicoffers. Leemkuell reported having received a letter of advice from Marseilles containing extracted papers from the Toulon Court of Admiralty. These papers stated that the currants, prior to being loaded at Toulon into the Saint Peter had been taken at sea from a ship named the Great Turk alias the Hope by the Knights of Malya and brought to Toulon as prize.

Comment on sources

"Sir Thomas Player to Williamson. Certifying that he has received of Mr. Jacobson and Mr. Leemkuell by the appointment of the Senate of Hamburg, 8,750l., which makes up the complete sum of 35,000l. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 370, No. 251.]"

"No. 507. Joachim Leemkuell. Das Testament vom 28. August 1677, wovon Abschrift im Archive, vermacht die Zinsen von 2000 [?] fuer die Armen der Neustadt."

"Dec. 20 [?1648] London. XXX. Certificate sealed in presence of Thos. Skynner, secretary of the Company of Merchants Adventurers, that Jacob Jacobson, master of the Steelyard in Dowgate Ward, as also John Leemkuel, merchant, Paulus Vander Velden Freehost, and John Eisleben, inhabiting the same house, are all there authorized and placed by the Honble. Chamber of Hanz Towns of Germany, and are by Act of Parliament free from all subsidies, taxes, &c, as the..."

"Petition of John Leemkuel and other German born merchants of London concerning the rebuilding of the German Church. 1675."