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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