Orchard Street

This street was popular with people from the slave trade. West India Merchant Mark Davies had a home here as did James McTaggart who was the Captain of the slave ship Africa. In the eighteenth century to one side of the street was a Huguenot Chapel, used by men like James LaRoche and Louis Casamajor who were both heavy investors in and profiteers from the slave trade, and others like Stephen Peloquin who was one of Bristol's top 5 wealthiest men in the eighteenth century having made a fortune from slave produced tobacco.