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A. D. Stewart & Co. 
 
Details
↳  Other partner
William Barron
↳  Name partner
Archibald David Stewart
1830 →
4 Upper Charles Street, London [London Gazette]
A. Gordon 
 
Details
↳  Investment in Firm
Alexander Gordon of Old Broad Street
1840 →
Old Broad Street, London [P.O.]
1850 →
57 Old Broad Street, London [P.O.]
1820 →
57 Old Broad Street, London [P.O.]
A. Heywood & Sons 
 
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 →
, Liverpool []
Adam Cliff 
 
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↳  Name partner
Adam Cliff
1834 →
68 Peel Street, Liverpool [Pigot's Lancashire]
1828 →
Adam Cliff (West India) 67 Seel [sic] Street, Liverpool [Pigot's Lancashire 1828-9]
Aguilar, Fernandes & Son. 
 
Details
↳  Name partner
Isaac Aguilar
↳  Name partner
Jacob Dias Fernandes
Albion Insurance Co. 
 
Details
↳  Director
John Towgood
1837 →
, [London Gazette]
Alex. & James Campbell 
 
Details
↳  Partner
Alexander Campbell of Hay Lodge
↳  Investment in Firm
Alexander George Milne junior
1835 →
, [London Gazette]
1820 →
6 Copthall Court, London [P.O.]
1834 →
6 Copthall Court, London [Pigott]
1840 →
10 George Yard, Lombard Street, London [P.O.]
1850 →
10 George Yard, Lombard Street, London [P.O.]
Alex. Dalrymple & Co. 
 
Details
↳  Senior partner
Alexander Dalrymple
↳  Other partner
Frederick Hervey Garraway
1835 →
, Roseau, Dominica [Compensation Records]
 →
, []
Alex. Geo. Milne 
 
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↳  Other partner
William Bartlet
↳  Name partner
Alexander George Milne senior
↳  Investment in Firm
William Bartlett
↳  Investment in Firm
Alexander George Milne junior
1863 →
Alex. Geo. Milne & Co. St Michaels House, Cornhill, London [P.O.]
1840 →
William Bartlett 10 George Yard, Lombard Street, London [P.O.]
1811 →
A.G. Milne 24 Nicholas Lane, London [P.O.]
1820 →
10 George Yard, Lombard Street, London [P.O.]
1834 →
10 George Yard, Lombard Street, London [Pigott]
1840 →
10 George Yard, Lombard Street, London [P.O.]
1850 →
10 George Yard, Lombard Street, London [P.O.]
Alex. Glennie 
 
Details
1820 →
Alex. Glennie & Son 3 Broad Street Buildings, London [Robsons]
1830 →
4 Warnford Court, London [Robsons]
Alexander & Francis Willock 
 
Details
↳  Name partner
Alexander Willock
Alexander Bartlet & Co.  
 
Details
↳  Senior partner
Alexander Bartlet
↳  Partner
George Campbell
↳  Partner
William Bartlet of Tobago
Alexander Glen & Co. 
 
Details
↳  Senior partner
Alexander Glen
↳  Partner
James Glen
Alexander Grant 
 
Details
↳  Name partner
Alexander Grant of Aberlour
1850 →
Alex. Grant WIM 6 Billter Square, London [P.O.]
1818 →
Alexander Grant Batson's Coffee House, London [London]
1834 →
6 Billter Square, London [Pigott]
1840 →
6 Billter Square, London [P.O.]
1826 →
Alexander Grant 6 Billiter Square, London [P.O. ]
Alexander H. Cohen 
 
Details
↳  Senior partner
Alexander Hiam Cohen
1834 →
7 Popes Head Alley, London [Pigott]
1840 →
23 Birchin Lane, Cornhill, London [P.O.]
Alexander Henry and Co. 
 
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↳  Partner
Robert Henry
↳  Partner
Maurice West
↳  Partner
William MacNeill
↳  Name partner
Alexander Henry
1805 →
, London [London Gazette]
Alexander Houstoun & Co.  
 
Details
↳  Partner
William McDowall III of Garthland
↳  Partner
Andrew Houston or Houstoun the younger, of Jordanhill
↳  Partner
Robert Houstoun known as Robert Houstoun Rae
↳  Partner
William McDowall II
↳  Founding partner
Alexander Houston or Houstoun the elder, of Jordanhill
↳  'London partner'
William Crichton
Alexander, Colcraft and Cox 
 
Details
↳  Name partner
Charles Alexander
↳  Name partner
Herbert Palmer Cox
Alfred Home and Foreign Life Assurance and Mutual Annuity Association 
 
Details
↳  Director
Duncan Davidson Alves
Allan, Colquhoun & Brymer  
 
Details
↳  Partner
Patrick Colquhoun
↳  Name Partner
James Brymer
Alliance British & Foreign Fire & Life Assurance Company 
 
Details
↳  President
John Irving the elder
↳  Director
Melvil Wilson
1825 →
, []
Alpujarras Lead Company 
 
Details
↳  Other partner
Daniel Willink
1827 →
, Adra Jartel, Spain [London Gazette]
Alves, Steele & Harrison 
 
Details
↳  Name partner
Duncan Davidson Alves
↳  Name partner
William Harrison
↳  Name partner
James Steele
1840 →
8 Lime Street Square, London [P.O.]
1834 →
8 Lime Street Square, London [Pigott 1832-1834]
1845 →
Duncan Davidson Alves 8 Lime Street Square, London [P.O.]
1827 →
Innes, Alves and Steele Lime Street Square, London [Bill of Sale 15/10/1827]
American Iron Company 
 
Details
↳  Investment in Firm
Admiral Arthur Forrest
And. Mackintsoh 
 
Details
↳  Investment in Firm
Andrew Mackintosh
1840 →
12 Langbourne Chambers Fenchurch Street, London [P.O.]
1850 →
Andrew Mackintosh 2 Brabant Court Philpot Lane, London [P.O.]
1834 →
20 Abchurch Lane, London [Pigott]

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People of Interest

Dorothy Diana Yates (née Smellie)

???? - 29th Aug 1873

Free person of colour, slave-owner in Jamaica. Long-term partner and later wife of Thomas Legal Yates. Living in Britain from the mid-1830s until her death in 1873.

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Documents of Interest

Occupations of enslaved women on Buff Bay Plantation, 1819

The Buff Bay plantation was a sugar estate next to the Buff Bay River, south of Charlestown in Jamaica. By 1839, the estate was 840 acres.

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