Arch. Edmonstone & Co.

Firm Details

People & Investments (1)

Other partner

Arch. Lapslie

Firm Evolutions (1)

1835 →

[Compensation Records]

Notes

John Castlefranc Cheveley visits 'McDonald Edmonston' in Demerara in the early 1820s, meets Robert Edmonston [sic] and comments that Robert's brother Archy had inherited the business from his uncle 'old Mr Archibald', an upriver timber merchant.

Sources

Unpublished MS of Vol. 2 of Autobiography of John Castelfranc Cheveley (Vol. 1 published as 'No Messing' edited by C.C. Thornburn)

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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