John Bloxam Elin

Commercial Legacy Details

Company Role

Union Bank of Australia
Director

1853 - ????

West India merchant (Colonial - Australasia)

Notes

Provisional Director Union Bank of Australia 1853

Director 1857, 1863

Sources

London Gazette 21398 4/1/1853 p. 13.

Firm Notes

James Bogle Smith and Benjamin E Lindo retired as directors of Union Bank of Australia and offered themselves for re-election at a meeting of proprietors called for 23/2/1842

Firm Sources

London Gazette 20105 3/6/1842

Edwin Hodder, 'George Fife Angas, father and founder of South Australia'

Further Information

People of Interest

Margaret Dunbar

1761 - ????

"Free quadroon woman" and mother of eleven children; independently wealthy, perhaps through legacies left her by her partners James Tierney (died 1784) and Ebenezer Robertson (died 1825).

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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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