Dear Eunice and Ron Shanahan,
I was very interested to see your reference to the firm of Sandbach & Tinne. I
cannot in fact answer your specific query - but have you tried contacting the
Liverpool Maritime museum ? Im sure they could tell you more there - if you cant
find the address I could send it you (doesnt seem to be on theWeb). They have some
Sandbach papers.
I have recently had an article published on Henry Robertson Sandbach in
Denbighshire Historical Transactions, which though it is mostly about Sandbach's
Welsh estate may fill in some of the background to the Company of Sandbach /
Tinne. I presume your interest is to set the letter in a historical context.
cheers,
Andrew.
E & R Shanahan wrote:
> G'day to the fellow list members -
> Can anyone help with this query please - we have tried the internet -
> the Enc Britannica - all reference books available over here, and are out
> of luck - This is all connected with the Sandbach Tinne/McInroy Parker
> correspondence, to and from Demerary in British Guiana/ Liverpool and
> Glasgow.
>
> This letter, dated London 22nd January 1830, is from one of the partners
> in the Sandbach Tinne firm in Liverpool, who had gone to London to meet
> with his MP Mr Huskinsson, about the sugar duty and customs etc, and he
> writes to his partner back in Liverpool :-
>
> "I called at the Liverpool Office, (which by the bye is still at No.2
> Fludyer St and not Park St as Mr Parker was told at the W.I. Association)..."
> ..."I have not called on any of the W.I. people yet - the filthy state of
> the streets deterring me from going into the City"....
>
> So we are trying to find any information about the West Indies
> Association. We gather that it was an association of
> 'merchants/traders/shippers/agents' or whatever involved with trade to/from
> the West Indies, and we know that the names of some of them are - Sandbach,
> Tinne, McInroy, Parker, Robert Gladstone, Will Ingers, C. Hand, W
> Rathbone,Mr Innes, but in our searches on the web we have not been able
> to find anything about any of them, or of the W.I Association.
>
> Also if anyone know what 'the Liverpool office at No.2 Fludyer Street'
> would be, all help gratefully received and acknowledged.
>
> Eunice and Ron in Queensland Australia
>
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