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TURNBULL, John


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 O/428

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: TURNBULL, John

Date(s): 1801

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.01 linear metres.

Name of creator(s): Various.

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Wakenaam is an island at the mouth of the Essequibo River of Guyana, South America.

Parties named in the conveyance are: 1. John Turnbull, John Forbes, Broad St., City, merchants and co-partners; 2. Thomas Hussey, late of Demerary, now Manchester St, Manchester Sq., St. Marylebone, esq; 3. John McArthur, York Pl., Portman Sq., St. Marylebone, esq; 4. John McKirdy, F. Schovers, Demerary, esqs; 5. Tully Higgins, J. H. Horkel, Island of Wakenaam, esqs.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Conveyance of the de Leifde coffee plantation on the Island of Wakenaam, Guyana.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

One item.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Gifted to the Archive in December 1974.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note:

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Records prepared May to September 2011.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Coffee industry | Beverage industry | Food industry | Manufacturing industry | Industry
Plantation records | Documents | Information sources
Plantations | Agricultural land
Property owners | People by roles | People
Property ownership | Civil law | Legal systems | Law
Property transfer | Property
Right to property | Civil and political rights | Human rights
Property law x Right to property

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
Guyana | South America