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Peter Harriss Abbott 
 
Firm Investment
British American Land Company
Land speculation  
Details
 
£2500 
Railway Investment
Portsmouth Junction  
Details
Benjamin Adam 
 
Name partner
Nelson & Adam
West India merchant  
Details
John William Adam 
 
Name Partner
Nelson & Adam
West India merchant  
Details
Charles Haden Adams 
 
Member of Provisional Committee
Lloyds Banking Company Limited
Banker  
Details
Edward Hamlin Adams 
 
Partner
Atkinson, Hozier & Co.
Contracting of enslaved labour  
Details
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Partner in a predecessor firm of Atkinson, Hozier...
Stephen Thurston Adey 
 
Name partner
Boldero Kendall & Adey
Banker  
Details
Isaac Aguilar 
 
Name partner
Aguilar, Fernandes & Son.
West India merchant  
Details
W. Ainslie jeune 
 
Name partner
Sampson, Ainslie  
Details
Rawson Aislabie 
 
Name partner
Neave & Aislabie
General overseas merchant?  
Details
Boyd Alexander 
 
Firm Investment
British American Land Company  
Details
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Name partner
Hon Wm Fraser, Alexander, Neilson & Co.
West India merchant  
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Charles Alexander 
 
Name partner
Alexander, Colcraft and Cox
West India merchant?  
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Dykes Alexander junior 
 
Partner
Messrs Alexander & Co.
Banker  
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Henry Alexander 
 
Partner
Messrs Alexander & Co.
Banker  
Details
Samuel Alexander 
 
Partner
Messrs Alexander & Co.
Banker  
Details
William Alexander 
 
Partner
William Alexander & Sons
Merchant Banker  
Details
William Maxwell Alexander 
 
Name partner
Hon Wm Fraser, Alexander, Neilson & Co.
West India merchant  
Details
Robert Allen 
 
Firm Investment
London Assurance
Insurance  
Details
Rowland Alston 
 
Railway Investment
 
Details
Rowland Gardiner Alston 
£2500 
Railway Investment
Cambridge and Oxford Cambridge and Oxford  
Details
 
£2500 
Railway Investment
Tean and Dove Valley and Eastern and Western Junction  
Details
Duncan Davidson Alves 
 
Director
Alfred Home and Foreign Life Assurance and Mutual Annuity Association
Insurance  
Details
 
 
Name partner
Alves, Steele & Harrison
West India merchant  
Details
George Henry Ames 
 
Firm Investment
Great Western Cotton Company
Cotton Mill  
Details
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28/02/1837: "Deed of Partnership - (1) Joseph Bell Clarke of Manchester, cotton manufacturer, William Edward Acraman, Alfred John Acraman, Philip William Skynner Miles, Thomas Kington, Peter Maze,...
 
 
Name partner
Baillie, Ames & Baillie
West India merchant  
Details
Jeremiah Ames 
 
Partner
John Freeman and Copper Company  
Details
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Partner, probably in succession to his father, until...
 
 
Name Partner
Pinney and Ames  
Details
John Amos 
 
Name partner
Pitcairn & Amos
West India merchant  
Details
James Hughes Anderdon 
 
Firm Investment
British American Land Company  
Details
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See biog...
 
 
Firm Investment
Bank of London
Banker  
Details
 
 
Name partner
Bosanquet Anderdon & Co.
Banker  
Details
John Lavicount Anderdon 
 
Partner
Manning & Anderdon
West India merchant  
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Partner...
John Proctor Anderdon 
 
Firm Investment
Canada Company
North American merchant  
Details
 
 
Name partner
Manning & Anderdon
West India merchant  
Details
Thomas Oliver Anderdon 
 
Firm Investment
British American Land Company  
Details
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See biog...
David Anderson 
 
Other partner
Sir Wm Forbes Bart, James Hunter & Co
Banker  
Details
George Anderson 
 
Senior Partner
George Anderson & Co.
Demerara Merchant  
Details
James Andrew Anderson 
 
General Manager
Glasgow Union Banking Company
Banker  
Details
George Fife Angas 
 
Firm Investment
British American Land Company  
Details
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See biog...
 
 
Co-founder
South Australian Banking Co.
Banker  
Details
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Co-founder 1840:...
 
 
Co-founder
Union Bank of Australia
Banker  
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Co-founder 1836:...
John Julius Angerstein 
 
'Chairman'
Lloyd's of London
Insurance  
Details
 
 
Senior partner
Angerstein, Warren and Lock
Insurance Broker  
Details
Raynes Waite Appleton 
£2500 
Railway Investment
Cheltenham, Oxford, and London and Birmingham Union; or Charlton Kings and Marsworth  
Details
Richard Smith Appleyard 
 
Firm Investment
New River Waterwork
Other  
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Holder of one full 1/36th share of the Adventurer's or Company's...
John Alves Arbuthnot 
 
Founding co-partner
Arbuthnot Latham
East India merchant  
Details
Charles Armstrong 
 
Senior partner
Charles Armstrong
West India merchant  
Details
Solomon Ashley 
 
Director
Royal African Co.
Slave Factors  
Details
Henry Ashton 
 
Name partner
Henry and Ralph Ashton
West India merchant  
Details

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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

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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