John M'Caul & Sons

Firm Details

People & Investments (1)

Investment in Firm

John Gordon McCaul

Firm Evolutions (1)

1820 →

[Edinburgh Gazette]

Notes

Call of creditors to a meeting to consider proposal for composition of debts following sequestration of the company of John M'Caul & Sons of Glasgow and of John M'Caul merchant in Copenhagen and John Gordon M'Caul merchant in St Croix as partners in the company, November 1820; Francis Garden had placed a notice signalling his appointment as trustee in January of that year (dated 22/1/1820). Garden died in 1831 and was replaced as trustee. Both M'Cauls were described as 'late of Glasgow' in 1822.

Sources

Edinburgh Gazette 2860 24/11/1820 p. 333; 2774 p. 30; 3957 p. 104; London Gazette 17772 p. 2520.

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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