James Hyde

Hyde, Hodge & Co. Great St Helens dissolved 1838 as it concerned George Hyde; James Hyde, James Bartlett Hyde & John Hodge continue

John Hodge and James Bartlett Hyde, surviving partners of James Hyde & Co., of Belize, British Honduras merchants and mahogany cutters; late firm of James Hyde & Co. 1861.

John Hodge of Belize, James Bartlett Hyde of No. 2 Great st Helens, surviving co-partners of the firm of James Hyde & Co. Trading at Belize aforesaid.

Lineage asserted between firm established by James Hyde and James Bartlett 'two of the oldest settler families' and John Hodge a London merchant, bought out by British Honduras Company in 1859 which was in turn renamed the Belize Estate and Produce Co. ('B.E.C.) in 1875  

London Gazette 19639 24/7/1838 p. 9

London Gazette 22378 20/4/1860 p. 27; London Gazette 22512 21/5/1861 p. 2182.

London Gazette 23099 20/4/1866 p. 34

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