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The Enduring Simond Legacy: Introduction
Louisa Mariane Simond married John Trevelyan in St James’s church, Piccadilly, in 1757. John Trevelyan was heir to a baronetcy and born...
Rachel Lang
Aug 82 min read


The Enduring Simond Legacy part 1: Early life and family background, 1691-1713
Pierre Simond – later Anglicised to Peter – was born in 1691, the eldest son of Pierre Simond senior, a Huguenot minister, and his wife...
Rachel Lang
Aug 79 min read


The Enduring Simond Legacy part 2: Business dealings, 1713-1763
Receipt from Pierre Simond to Madame de la Mothe, 2 nd November 1726, for £987 10s. Around 1708, during a period of significant...
Rachel Lang
Aug 611 min read


The Enduring Simond Legacy part 3: Expansion in Grenada, 1763-1785
View of St George, Grenada, from Nouvelles vues perspectives des ports de France, dessinées pour le Roi par M. Ozanne . 1776 Grenada was...
Rachel Lang
Aug 58 min read


The Enduring Simond Legacy part 4: Simond as a slave trader, 1776-1779
Cape Coast Castle as it stands today, restored in the 1990s and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Simond and Hankey’s ship, named the...
Rachel Lang
Aug 46 min read


The Enduring Simond Legacy part 5: The Trevelyans’ Grenadian property, 1785-1834
Sir John Trevelyan, 4 th Baronet (1735-1828), privileged, old-school, and very into politics, had six children still living in 1785. The...
Rachel Lang
Aug 29 min read
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