Hughes and Tobins

Firm Details

People & Investments (1)

Name partner

Sir John Tobin

Firm Evolutions (1)

1823 →

[London Gazette]

Notes

Liverpool 27/12/1823: notice is hereby given that the under-named Sir John Tobin retired from the partnership formerly carried on by the undersigned as Ship-owners under the firm Hughes and Tobins in the year 1818, and that the business was afterwards carried on by the undernamed William Hughes and Thomas Tobin under the firm Hughes and Tobin until the 31/5/1819 when the same finally ended.

Sources

London Gazette 17988 30/12/1823 p. 2188

Further Information

People of Interest

Ann Katherine Storer (née Hill)

1785 - 1854

Jamaican-born widow of a prominent slave-owner; resident in Britain following the death of her husband in 1818. Accused - and acquitted - of the cruel treatment of some enslaved people whom she brought to Britain with her.

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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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