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Letters from various individuals on matters related to Trinidad. Correspondents and...

Catalogue reference: CO 295/149

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This record is about the Letters from various individuals on matters related to Trinidad. Correspondents and... dating from 1845 in the series Colonial Office and Predecessors: Trinidad Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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CO 295/149
Date
1845
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Letters from various individuals on matters related to Trinidad. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

  • Durant St Andre (import export duty ordinance requested);
  • Joseph S Agostini, Barrister (escheat of J Smith's property);
  • Major J Adair (requests Captain Lewis James Hay's health certificate);
  • Lieutenant Colonel E Archer (requests appointment of acting governor, allowances as acting governor, requests employment in the colonial service);
  • J Bidwell (requests Henry Dillon's death certificate);
  • Sampson Brissier, 'native of Africa' (petition for compensation money due to him);
  • Chalmers Guthrie & Company (recommends confirmation of Mr Fuller's appointment as Second Puisne Judge);
  • Miss Elizabeth Christie (petition requesting assistance as the daughter of George Christie the late Assistant Quartermaster General of the Surveying Department);
  • James Chipchase (asks for the address of Charles Chipchase);
  • Mr Dunlop (letter for Lady McLeod);
  • Sir Lewis Grant (recommends Mr Wyllys' promotion to a puisne judgeship);
  • Frederick Hamilton (position of emigration agent for Jamaica, British Guiana and Trinidad for liberated Africans, payment of a £50 bill);
  • Rev J Hamilton (arrival, salary);
  • Charles Hobson (requests appointment of official assignee);
  • John Jones (protests against the ordinance for establishing a Court of Appeal in cases of offences punishable on summary convictions);
  • Charles Fred Knox, Stipendiary Magistrate (arrival on leave, requests a leave extension);
  • A Kennedy (claim for payment for services on board the Fairy Queen as medical attendant on African immigrants in quarantine);
  • Dr Thomas Murray (requests a leave extension);
  • George M Henry, former Surgeon of the Liberated African Establishment in St Helena (requests appointment as emigration agent at Sierra Leone);
  • A Macgregor (memorandum on the Contract Ordinance);
  • H C Ouseley (leave of absence and consequent arrangement, remarks on plan for remodelling the Emigration Agencies at Rio de Janeiro);
  • John Simson (signature to be attested);
  • George Scotland (leave of absence, inability to get passage on a steamer);
  • Dr Richard P Smith, Bishop of Olympus (requests a full salary while on leave, securing of a Roman Catholic priest);
  • Louis Stanislas (claim to property withheld by Jean Baptiste Paul);
  • Lord Sandon (enquiry regarding the estate and effects of shipbuilder Robert Bannister);
  • White, Blake, Tyler and Fawkener (requests former Chief Justice Ashton Warner's death certificate);
  • Thomas Tilson (requests an interview regarding a certain ordinance);
  • Arthur White (leave of absence, medical certificate, payment of half salary);
  • Mrs Catherine Warner (enquiry regarding the addition of the attorney general's name to a list of Trinidad Railway directors);
  • Sorzano v McSwiny (documents related to the case of Martin Sorzano, Commissary of Population and Surveyor General, against Bryan McSwiny 'to compel the Department to take down and remove a gallery or projection annexed to his house on Frederick Street in Port of Spain').

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Subjects
Topics
Shipping
International
Labour
Railways
Trade and commerce
Migration
Caribbean
Europe and Russia
Pay and pensions
Americas
Africa
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C987597/

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Colonial Office and Predecessors: Trinidad Original Correspondence

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