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Molly was baptised in November 1764 in the Priory Church close to the Judges’ Lodgings. She was buried just a month later. We know very little about Molly but it’s likely she was intended to live as a servant, free or enslaved, with a local merchant family. In the same year Molly died, the Customs House was built on the quayside in Lancaster to a design by Richard Gillow. The new building was a sign of the ambition of the city’s merchants and the wealth created by the Atlantic Slave Trade and West Indies Trade. Commissioned from Lela Harris by Judges Lodgings Museum in partnership with Lancaster Black History Group, Lancaster University and the Institute for Black Atlantic Research at University of Central Lancashire. Funded by Art Fund and Association of Independent Museums.