Robert Brade

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1815

Biography

Liverpool slave-trader, partner with William Harper (q.v.) and with him likely to have been the Brade who appeared as mortgagee of slave-property on Montserrat.

Robert Brade, son of James Brade of Forton, baptised at St Michael, Cockerham, Lancashire, 12/04/1747. His parents James Brade and Agnes Vaughan had married in the same church 25/10/1742.
The will of Robert Brade of Montserrat dated or proved at Chester 06/10/1815.

Sources

Lancashire Parish Records Project 1744-1760, http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Cockerham/stmichael/baptisms.html [accessed 16/07/2018].
Ancestry.com, Cheshire: - Wills and Inventories, 1811-1820 (A-L) Volume:List of Wills and Administrations (Infra Wills are marked with an asterisk) Now Preserved in the Probate Registry at Chester, For the Years 1811-20, both Inclusive [database online].

We are grateful to Margaret Davison for her assistance with compiling this entry.

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Associated Estates (1)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

SD - Association Start Date
SY - Association Start Year
EA - Earliest Known Association
ED - Association End Date
EY - Association End Year
LA - Latest Known Association

1817 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession

Molineaux's [ Montserrat ]

The estate was shown against William Harper as surviving partner in Harper and Brade variously as owner and mortgagee-in-possession between 1817 and 1831.