Paul's Life In The 18th Century
This first period of Paul’s life in London sees him married, becoming a father, establishing a business and starting to build his reputation.
Sometime in 1719 Paul and members of his family had decided to emigrate from Holland to London, bought tickets, boarded a ship and made their move to start anew. They would have most likely set sail from Rotterdam from where the trip to London was relatively short, about 200 land miles, which could have been accomplished in 48-72 hours. Their ship would typically have been a Dutch fluyt, a 200 to 300-ton merchant square rigged vessel especially designed to maximize cargo and passenger space in an unarmed ship suitable for the well patrolled English Channel and North Sea where piracy was a negligible concern.
After crossing the lower North Sea his ship would have waited for an incoming tide and ridden that tide up to the Pool of London, the area below the London Bridge where fluyts and other traders anchored in midstream and unloaded …show more content…
Louis had died in 1715 and his wife was to live on until 1727 so mother and daughter may have come to meet the Fourdriniers, but more likely they would have found a cart or carrier to take him the last few miles to the Grolleau residence. In these days’ ships’ landfalls were difficult to predict and very variable according to wind and wave; the Grolleau family can only have known approximately when the Fourdriniers would arrive.
Paul’s father was presumably a friend of Louis Grolleau (1662-1715), four years his junior, who traded fine textiles and was naturalized into English citizenship March 8th 1682. Louis was married to Marie du Fay (aka Dusay) (1660-1729). This family friendship between the Grolleau’s and the Fourdrinier’s was for a key factor in Paul moving to
Sometime in 1719 Paul and members of his family had decided to emigrate from Holland to London, bought tickets, boarded a ship and made their move to start anew. They would have most likely set sail from Rotterdam from where the trip to London was relatively short, about 200 land miles, which could have been accomplished in 48-72 hours. Their ship would typically have been a Dutch fluyt, a 200 to 300-ton merchant square rigged vessel especially designed to maximize cargo and passenger space in an unarmed ship suitable for the well patrolled English Channel and North Sea where piracy was a negligible concern.
After crossing the lower North Sea his ship would have waited for an incoming tide and ridden that tide up to the Pool of London, the area below the London Bridge where fluyts and other traders anchored in midstream and unloaded …show more content…
Louis had died in 1715 and his wife was to live on until 1727 so mother and daughter may have come to meet the Fourdriniers, but more likely they would have found a cart or carrier to take him the last few miles to the Grolleau residence. In these days’ ships’ landfalls were difficult to predict and very variable according to wind and wave; the Grolleau family can only have known approximately when the Fourdriniers would arrive.
Paul’s father was presumably a friend of Louis Grolleau (1662-1715), four years his junior, who traded fine textiles and was naturalized into English citizenship March 8th 1682. Louis was married to Marie du Fay (aka Dusay) (1660-1729). This family friendship between the Grolleau’s and the Fourdrinier’s was for a key factor in Paul moving to