Yates Brothers

Firm Details

People & Investments (3)

Partner

Richard Vaughan Yates

Partner

John Priestley

Name partner

John Ashton Yates

Firm Evolutions (1)

1831 →

[London Gazette]

Notes

Liverpool 8/7/1823 The partnership lately subsisting between John Ashton Yates, Ric[har]d V[aughan] Yates and John Priestley, under the firm of Yates, Brothers and Company expired 31/12 last and the Brokerage business will be carried on in future under the firm of Yates, Brothers and Company by and on account of John Ashton Yates and John Priestley.
Liverpool 9/2/1831: Partnership heretofore carried on by John Ashton Yates, John Priestley, Richard Griffith and Edward Cox, under the firm of Yates Brothers and Co., terminated on 31st December last

Sources

London Gazette 17944 29/7/1823 p. 1247

2.London Gazette 18777 18/2/1831 p. 319

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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