West India & East India merchant
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Partnership of Patrick Cruikshank, John Melville, Robert Ramsay and William Fauntleroy Street, of No. 13 Austin Friars, trading under the firm Cruikshank Melville and Co., dissolved 31/12/1843 as far as concerns Robert Ramsay, dated this 6th day of April 1844
Cruikshank Melville East & West India and NSW merchants, started 1840.
Partners Patrick Cruikshank, John Melville, William Fauntleroy Street of Austin Friars.
Capital of £31,204 2s 9d; by 1841, capital = £55,364 15s 9d. Jan 1 1845 b/s showed £36,315 15s 1d in equity.
Stopped 1845
London Gazette 20582 10/3/1846 p. 922
D. Morier Evans: History of the Commercial Crisis 1857-58 Appendix: suspensions
1810 - ????
Enslaved young woman in St Peter, Barbados. Manumitted on the eve of Emancipation. Married a butcher in Speightstown.
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.
