Cavan Bros.

1. In 1847, James Cavan, John Torrance and Michael McChlery were identified as all of Finsbury Square, merchants and copartners, carrying on business under the firm of Cavan Brothers, and Company, in a notice from the Provost Marshall of British Guiana.      

2. Partners 1860 = John Torrance (leaving), Philip Charles Cavan (1816-1870, d . Thanet), Henry McChlery, Wm Rennie.  Henry McChlery probably the nephew of James Cavan (Michael McChlery is identified as Cavan's nephew in David Lewis' The Maesteg Iron Industry 1828-1885 p. 52.)  

3. Colonial Company Ltd: arrangement and alteration of share capital [Parliamentary Bill] 1880  

4. Colonial Company reconstituted 11/5/1897

1. Report of winding up of Colonial Company given at the offices of New Colonial Company 20 Eastcheap London 1901

1. Petiton for winding up of New Colonial Company 1913

1. London Gazette 20793 16/11/1847 p. 4108

2. London Gazette 22342 3/1/1860 p. 17

3. London Gazette 24906 26/11/1880 pp. 188-9

4. London Gazette 26852 14/5/1897 p. 27

5. London Gazette 27285[3?] 15/2/1901 p. 34

6. London Gazette 28756 16/9//1913 p. 30.

Walter Rodney [Guyanese sugar plantations, page xiii] gives 1865 as the year in which the Colonial Company "arrived on the scene"