Job Mathew Raikes

Commercial Legacy Details

Partnership Role

W & T Raikes & Co.
Senior partner

General overseas merchant

No notes

Firm Notes

Partnership of Job Mathew Raikes, Thomas Raikes, Richard Mee Raikes and John Finch Mason of London Wall merchants, carrying on trade under firm of W and T Raikes and Co., was dissolved by mutual consent 31/3/1818 as to JFMason. Job Mathew Raikes withdrew 31/3/1829. The firm, by then comprising only Thomas and Richard Mee Raikes, failed in 1834.

Firm Sources

London Gazette 17371 20/6/1818 p. 1119; London Gazette 18604 21/8/1829 p. 1574; London Gazette 27047 31/1/1899 pp. 638-9.

Further Information

People of Interest

October alias Robert Barclay

1787 - 1861

Enslaved boy on Unity Valley Pen, Jamaica. Manumitted in 1795 by David Barclay and removed to Philadelphia, with 29 other freed persons from the estate, where he was placed under the care of Society for Improving the Condition of Free Blacks.

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Documents of Interest

Windsor and Williamsfield Inventory of Slaves 1814 p8

Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.

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