James Ewing & Co.

Firm Details

People & Investments (3)

Senior partner

James Ewing of Strathleven

Other partner

William Mathieson

Investment in Firm

Humphrey Ewing Crum-Ewing

Firm Evolutions (1)

1848 →

[London Gazette]

Notes

James Ewing of Glasgow identified as sole surviving co-partner of the firm lately trading at Glasgow under the name and style of James Ewing & Co., with whom 'William Mathieson in his lifetime...constituted the said firm' (his executor was James Ewing Mathieson) in an announcement of the sale of plantations Montrose and Felicity.

Sources

London Gazette 20842 31/3/1848 p. 1298

Further Information

People of Interest

Dorothy Diana Yates (née Smellie)

???? - 29^th 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

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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