Archibald Smith

Profile & Legacies Summary

1795 - ????

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Son of Archibald Smith of Jordanhill (d. 1821) and partner with his eldest brother in James and Archibald Smith & Company, successor firm to Leitch & Smith (q.v.).

Archibald Smith was shown as 'formerly a West India proprietor and merchant in Glasgow, now in his eighty-third year', in 1878 in Old Country Houses of the old Glasgow Gentry. The biography of his elder brother James Smith (q.v.) in MacLehose's Memoirs and portraits of one hundred Glasgow includes references to Archibald Smith, 'on whom from a very early date the task of conducting the firm [of James and Archibald Smith] almost entirely fell' and to Archibald Smith's leading role in the railway sector in Glasgow.

Sources

John Guthrie Smith and John Oswald Mitchell, Old Country Houses of the Old Glasgow Gentry (1878), 'LIX. Jordanhill'; James MacLehose, Memoirs and portraits of one hundred Glasgow men who have died during the last thirty years and in their lives did much to make the city what it now is (Glasgow, James MacLehose & Sons, 1886), 83. James Smith, pp. 285-288.

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Spouse

Eliza M'Call

Children

Thomas; Elizabeth Maria Lydia; Emily Anne

Occupation

Merchant

Associated Claims (6)

Associated Estates (7)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

SD - Association Start Date
SY - Association Start Year
EA - Earliest Known Association
ED - Association End Date
EY - Association End Year
LA - Latest Known Association

1829 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder

Grand Ance Estate [ Grenada | St George ]

1839 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession

Iter Boreale [ Jamaica | St George ]

Leitch & Smith had advanced £25,000 to Robert Mackay & Co. in 1800 on mortgage.

1832 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder

Marli Estate [ Grenada | St Patrick ]

Stephen Mullen showed George Paterson transferring [from John Ryburn and Andrew Ranken] a large mortgage to J&A Smith in 1832 and making them his consignees, Mullen, Stephen Scott (2015) The ‘Glasgow West India interest: integration, collaboration and exploitation in the British Atlantic World, 1776-1846.' PhD thesis, Glasgow 2015 pp. 161-2 and 163. Paterson claimed and was awarded the slave compensation for his estates, implying he had kept his mortgage current.

1829 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder

Morne Delice Estate [ Grenada | St George ]

1829 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder

Mount Hardman Estate [ Grenada | St George ]

1832 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder

Union [ Grenada | St Patrick ]

Stephen Mullen showed George Paterson transferring a large mortgage to J&A Smith in 1832 and making them his consignees, Mullen, Stephen Scott (2015) The ‘Glasgow West India interest: integration, collaboration and exploitation in the British Atlantic World, 1776-1846. PhD thesis, Glasgow 2015 pp. 161-2. Paterson claimed and was awarded the slave compensation for his estates, implying he had kept his mortgage current.

1829 [EA] - 1833 [LA] → Mortgage Holder

Union Estate [ Grenada | St Mark ]