Both Claude and Daniel Jamineau are mentioned in Denization letters of 9 April 1687 - they were Fren…

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Both Claude and Daniel Jamineau are mentioned in Denization letters of 9 April 1687 - they were French Huguenot members of the Bretagne Church in Pons France who went to England with their pastor Elias Prioleau (Rootsweb quoting Hugenot Society of London vol xviii, 1911).

From https://www.geni.com/people/Rev-Elias-Prioleau/6000000033776209495
“In Feb 1684, Du Vigier, Councillor of the Parliament at Bordeaux, charged with looking into religious infractions, came to Pons with 2 monks and demanded all the church papers. One monk, La Roussie, made extracts of all of the Prioleau sermons, distorted them and gave them to the Deputy Commissary. The other, Mayan, who had persecuted the pastor's father, formulated 16 charges against him. These were finally dismissed, but persecutions increased. On 22 Oct 1685, the Edict of Nantes was revoked, protestant churches were ordered destroyed, ministers were ordered to leave France in 15 days, and parents were ordered to present their children for catholic baptism under penalty of a 500 pound fine. Prioleau did not leave at once and organized secret assemblies. On April 15, 1686, his church was battered by a mob and burned to the ground. He escaped to England and stayed there for over a year. He obtained rights of denization to Carolina on April 15, 1687. Having been granted 8 pounds by the King to defray the costs, he sailed for Charles Town with his wife and daughter. They arrived in Charles Town in late 1687.” 

There are many references to Claude in correspondence on state of shipping trade with Venice. In his marriage licence allegation he states that he is a merchant from St Swithons, London

The Journal of the House of Commons volume 9 page 268 shows that on Wedensday 6th March, 1699 (in 12th year of the reign of Wiliam 3rd, William of Orange) Claude Jamineau together with a number of others “took the Oaths in order to their Naturalization” (https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iRw6AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA268&lpg=PA268&dq=claude+jamineau&source=bl&ots=JcaIzl3hiG&sig=z_sgon01tfDNI4s7Q3UxKsz9Ifw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Wr8rVYGfGI_taLjQgJgI&ved=0CDsQ6AEwBzgK#v=onepage&q=claude%20jamineau&f=false)
Daniel Jamineau is metioned as being, in 1695/96, a substantial trader with Africa, Barbados and Zante. (Heugenouts in English Sea Ports in the Late Seventeenth Century, Robert Gwynn http://www.lib.kobe-u.ac.jp/repository/81000029.pdf

In December 1712 Claude Janineau, described as a Venetian merchant, is consulted by the board of trade for his comments on the Commerce Treaty with Venice https://www.british-history.ac.uk/jrnl-trade-plantations/vol2/pp396-400

Daniel and Claude, as both are cited together as significant traders, in particular of beads and in connection with transatlantic slaves, during the late seventeenth and early 18th century. See page 330 “The Slave Trade: The story of the Altantic Slave Trade 1440-1879” by Hugh Thomas (online at https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lzuEzmO81GwC&pg=PA330&lpg=PA330&dq=claude+jamineau&source=bl&ots=GD7mp_PRPS&sig=-daMnYa40fz6l44UVp-ter3SCqU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Wr8rVYGfGI_taLjQgJgI&ved=0CCAQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=claude%20jamineau&f=false)

In another text (The Forgotten Trade by Nigel Tattersfield) they are cited as one time owners of the Martha: “A sizeable vessel of 230 tons burden, the Martha had previously been employed by the Huguenot slave traders (and purveyors of beads) Daniel and Claude Jamineau.” The same text also claims that “Huguenot exiles Daniel Jamineau and his brother Claude [...] had an unofficial monopoly of the supply of beads in London during the period 1698-1725. All the ten percent merchants and he Company itself were forced to purchase beads - of crystal, amber and jet, with names like bugles, rangoes, olivets and gooseberries - from this single source.”

From https://erenow.net/modern/atlanticslavetrade1440-1870/17.php “Beads were probably the most important of these trivia. Yellow and green glass beads were desired by the Sapes in the sixteenth century, and so were red carnelians by the people of Calabar in the seventeenth. Daniel and Claude Jamineau—Huguenots in London in the eighteenth century, the most successful dealers in beads—perhaps did best out of this business. One slave merchant reported receiving a prime Negro in return for thirteen beads of coral, half a string of amber beads, twenty-eight silver bells, and three pairs of bracelets. In a good year in the late seventeenth century, about three thousand pounds’ worth of beads and glass would be carried by the RAC: bought in Amsterdam, and made in Venice.”

RAC = Royal African Company?

Claude was also a director of the London Assurance Company.

Although he is often mentioned, together with his brother, in histories of slave trading ias a bead trader he is more generally referred to as a cloth merchant. His daughter Frances married William Carter, who is also a very successful cloth merchant (London and Low Countries) and when his grandaughter Mary Carter marries Robert Andrewes he is again referred to as a rich cloth merchant.

Boyd's marriage records show marriage allegation of Claude Jamineau and Ludovica Duport (Vicar General Marriage Licence Allegations) 4th October 1699. The allegation is signed by Claude and comparing his signature on this allegation and that for his daughter Frances who married William Carter, it is the same Claude. It gives his age as 35 and hers as 25.

If 35 in 1699 he would have been born about 1664, but a family member tree suggests he was born in August 1658 in Loudon, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France to parents Alaine (1619-1690) and Madelaine (1619 - 1676) Jamineau although it does not provide a source. Poitou-Charents is less than 50km from Pons, the place from which the Heugonot Society records say Claude escaped with Elias Prioleau and Claude could have been playing down his age to marry the much younger woman.

Claude and Louise Jamineau had several children christened at Threadneedle Street, French Huguenot, London; Christening dates:
(IGI C049032)

Daniel Claude 4 Jan 1701
Marie Louise, 31 May 1702
Frances, 7 July1703
Marthe 16 May 1705
Magdelleine 16 Nov 1707
Marie 14 Nov 1708
Izaac 12 Feb 1710
Pierre Philipe 12 April 1711

Claude is listed in the 1716 to 1722 Land tax records for Aldgate, London.

A christening record for Daniel Jamineu at the same church 13 Oct 1700, parents Daniel Jamineua and Marthe - it is likely that this is the christening of Claude's nephew son of his brother Daniel.

Daniel Jamineau married Mrs Martha Brugnes on 18th May 1692 at St Martin in the Fields. Martha was aged about 30 and was presumably widowed. Her mother consented and marriage was attested by her uncle, James Taudin. There are records of many other children with parents Daniel and Martha Jamineau from mid 1690s.

In his will dated 8th September 1726 and proved on 5th May 1727 Claude mentions his brother Daniel and a number of his friends and relatives by name, including his oldest daughter Louisa to whom he leaves his late wifes pearl necklace, diamond earings and diamond to make a ring and the rest of her jewelry to be shared equally between his three other daughters. As there are christening records for five daughters, one must have died before September 1726. He leaves his own diamond ring to the oldest of his sons still liveing at the time of his death.

Claude’s will indicates that he was a very rich man with a significant estate. He leaves one hundred pounds to his main executor, Charles Laporte with whom he has lived for many years and to whom he entrusts the balancing and closing of his books and accounts. He leaves fifty pounds each to his other executors [James Gaulton?, John ? and ?] and he also leaves legacies to a number of the French churches and the French hospital in London in trust for the poor as well as legacies for his children, nephews and nieces and smaller sums to his servants.

He wills that those of his servants who have lived with him in England for six months and are still in his house at the time of his death are put to mourning and given two guineas each. He also leaves money on trust for his servants in Venice to be put into morning.

Individuals mentioned in Claude’s will:
Unnamed daughters of his brother Daniel twenty pounds each
Nieces Louis [Roussea?] and Mary Jamineau Beaujardin twenty pounds each (are they daughters of his sister?)
Nephew Gabriel Roussea and his wife thirty pounds
Mrs Donafau[?] and her two unnamed brothers ten pounds each
Mr Philip Rouseau “my partner at Venice” fifty pounds to put Mr James Zuyon and such of the servants of the house as he shall think fit in mourning”

Claude leaves “the rest and residue” of his estate to be shared equally between his children, but he took into account that he had already given amounts to some of his children when they married or “adventured into the world” and he requested that be taken into account as part of their share. In addition he instructs his executors to put any additional amounts to be paid to his already married daugthers into funds on trust and pay them the interest “on their single receipt” and to pay them the capital only following the death of their husbands, or if they die before their husbands to their children if any. Legacies for any of his children under twenty one years are put into trusts.

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