Thomas Lane
The stockholders books of the East India Company clearly show that
at any time in the eighteenth century between ten and twenty Mile End
residents held stock; however, only one man was an active trader in stock.
Thomas Lane left Christ's Hospital School in 1724 and was
apprenticed `to serve John Caswell of London, Merchant, or his brother,
Henry Caswell, in Boston in New England, Merchant, for 7 years'. By 1735
Lane was a partner in a company which eventually became Lane, Son &
Francis. By 1757, he was shown in the the East India Company as living in
Mile End, and he stayed there until 1769, when he moved to Bedford Row.
Lane was a major trader in stock purchasing £33,000 of stock in 1761, and in
1763 he carried forward a balance of £7,500.
The coincidences which these inter marriages underline for me after 3 passes of the material over the past 3 winters now fall in the "are you kidding me" category
-Mary Milbourne appears to be the widow of Thomas Brassey
-sarah BRASSEY(or unkn BRASSEY?) sis of John William Nathan and THOMAS) daugh MaryDEACON marries THOMAS BODDINGTON
-the Brassey's church has a connection to the Bloomsbury Group and careswall
-the Brassey church has a connection to the EYES c980 and John de CAVE.
John CASWALL d 1731 w KEZIA Johns? widow LANE widow CAVE d 1735 is my John merchant of London and Boston
http://www.merchantnetworks.com.au/periods/1775after/lanesonfraser.htm-Thomas LANE is a partner of JOHN caswall I&II
-William Lane NY city is John CASWALLs IorII's lawyer executor of John merchant of etc's US property
-a TURNER and a LANE are apprenticed from St EYEs Hospital to John CASWALL of London and Boston
- Lane later had partners Joseph Smethurst (maybe of Marblehead?), then Bostonian John Caswell/Caswall II. Both these men died in accidents. From 1750 the firm then became Thomas Lane and Co, then another Lloyd cousin, Benjamin Booth, came in.
-7 May 1724. Thomas Lane apprenticed from Christ's Hospital to his
grandmother Susanna L. to serve John Caswell of London, merchant, or
his brother Henry Caswell of Boston, New England, merchant. (CH).
grandmother Susanna L could be a CASWALL?
see BALL as well