Interracial Marriage in 18th Century Britain

OK it has been ages since I blogged, 2009 to be exact.  I was going to begin a whole new blog but decided to keep it but start from where I am at now.  I am doing a PhD in theology but which encompasses history, sociology, gender studies and the list goes on.  Specifically I am looking at Black pentecostal women in the British church this will be my focus but there will be so many other areas and things of interest in my purview.  I am finding out new things every time I read and this blog will function as a place to put things I have found interesting.  Sometimes with comment, sometimes not. Please feel free to comment if you feel the need.  Blessings and I look forward to discussions.


So I have to do literature surveys and the stuff you come across.....

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/blackhistory/work_community/docs/belisarius_list.htm




This is the manifest for Belisarius, a ship that set sail for Sierra Leone in 1787.  The transcript below shows a transcript of the manifest. Whilst for hundreds of years interracial marriages in the US were illegal (as recently 1967 in Virginia) the manifest shows that black women were married to white men and black men were married in Britain from at least the 1800's. The relationship of British Blacks to British Whites are different to that of our American cousins.

Unfortunately the story does not end well of the 350 people who sailed only 60 survived.  Some dieing during the voyage, others at the hand of slave traders, native people, the climate or disease.

The Names of Men Women & Children who are now on board the Belisarius Capt[ai]n Sill lying at the Motherbank 16 Feb[ruar]y 1787.
1	James Stiphson	30	Anth[on]y Hill	58	John Stewart
2	Jos[e]ph Taylor	1	Will[ia]m Anderson	9	Jno [John] Lewis
3	W[illia]m Theads	2	Will[ia]m Smith	60	Fra[nci]s Barlian
4	Ja[me]s White	3	Jno [John] Horne	1	Jno [John] Ramsey
5	Peter Grant	4	Edw[ar]d Smith	2	Jno [John] Thomas
6	Edw[ar]d Honeycot	5	Geo[rge] Hill	3	W[illia]m Hudson
7	Ja[me]s Murry	6	Jno [John] Thomas	4	Jno [John] Homan
8	Jos[e]ph Newman	7	Jno [John] Lewis	5	Jos[e]ph Hartford
9	Ja[me]s Neptune	8	Jno [John] Hall	6	Tho[ma]s Truman
10	Geo[rge] Jones	9	Jno [John] Wilson	7	Jno [John] Swithin
1	Ja[me]s Seaman	40	Will[ia]m Green	8	Lewis Latouch
2	John Thomas	1	Joseph Green Jun[io]r	9	Lewis Latouch Jun[io]r
3	Truro Ambo	2	Tho[ma]s Simms	70	Abr[aha]m Elliot Griffith
4	Jno [John] Solomon	3	Tho[ma]s Woodman	1	And[re]w James
5	Jos[e]ph Bromly	4	Ja[me]s Martin	2	Jos[e]ph George
6	Misheck Wright	5	W[illia]m Richardson	3	W[illia]m Close
7	Abraham Mathews	6	Fra[nci]s Durham	4	Geo[rge] Comfortable
8	Lewis Sterling	7	Jno [John] Jones	5	W[illia]m Lee
9	Charles Jones	8	Benj[ami]n Elliot	6	Jno [John] Jacob
20	George Brown	9	Jno [John] Marrine	7	Jno [John] Jacob Jun[io]r
1	W[illia]m Hoskins	50	Ja[me]s Marrine Jun[io]r	8	Jno [John] James
2	W[illia]m Williams	1	Geo[rge] Jones	9	W[illia]m Bromfield
3	John Thomas	2	Tho[ma]s Montague	80	Jno [John] Walter
4	John Thomas	3	Jno [John] Peters
5	Rich[ar]d Guthrow			1	Richard Bradley
6	Arch[ibal]d Stewart	4	Jno [John] Twine	81	Black Men
7	Jno [John] Lawrence	5	Christ[ophe]r Friday
8	Jno [John] W[illia]m Ramsay	6	Tho[ma]s Holder
9	Ja[me]s Reid	7	Tho[ma]s Holder Jun[io]r

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	Black Women Married to White Men		White Women Married to Black Men
1	Nancy Hughes
2	Hester Wright	1	Mary Bradley
3	Eliza[beth] Jones	2	Marg[are]t Allen
4	Jane Gosport	3	Barbary Thomas
5	Hannah Stewart	4	Eliza[beth] Brown
6	Sarah Simpson	5	Eliza[beth] Ramsey
7	Christ[ia]n Horn	6	Marg[are]t Jackson
8	Ann Watson	7	Mary Adams
9	Martha Green	8	Eliz[abeth] Demain
10	Hannah Richardson	9	Ann Holder
11	Hannah Twine	10	Amelia Homan
12	Sarah Lee	1	Marg[are]t Latouch
13	Peggy Smith	2	Ann Provey
14	Martha Smith	3	Rebecca Griffith
15	Eliza[beth] Richardson	4	Martha James
16	Eliza[beth] Hartford	5	Mary Ann Lee
17	Jane Baptist	16	Mary Jacob
18	Mary James	16	White Women
18	Black Women

White Women wanting to be Married
1	Mary Allen
2	Jane Gosport
3	Mary Adams
4	Eliz[abeth] Robinson
5	Milly Shimmings