Sandbach Tinne & Co, 1807-1882

IDENTITY STATEMENT AREA

Reference code(s): ICS 70

Title: Sandbach Tinne & Co, 1807-1882

Date(s): 1807 - 1882

Level of description: Fond

Extent and medium of the unit of description: 3 boxes (0.03 cubic metres)

CONTEXT AREA

Name of creator(s): Sandbach, Tinne and Co, merchants, Liverpool, Lancashire

Administrative/Biographical history: James McInroy came to Demerara in 1782, and planted or acquired a sugar plantation soon after his arrival. By 1790 he was joined by Samuel Sandbach, Charles Stewart Parker and George Robertson, and the company, McInroy Sandbach & Co. was founded. At first the head office was in Glasgow under the name McInroy Parker & Co., and in 1804 a branch was founded in Liverpool, which later became the company headquarters. In 1813 Philip Tinne was taken into the partnership and the company became known as Sandbach, Tinne & Co in Liverpool, and McInroy Sandbach & Co in Demerara (in 1861 changed to Sandbach Parker & Co.) They were importers and exporters, shipping and estate agents, mainly concerned with sugar, coffee, molasses and rum, but also in 'prime Gold Coast Negroes' (J Rodway: 'History of British Guiana', 1893). The families intermarried amd the sons and sons in law entered the business.

The earliest accounts available at Compannies House are for 1948. These show Parkers, a Sandbach and later a Tinne still involved in the company. However they are a part of a larger group Demerara Co. Ltd. In the early 1960s the company experienced its first losses, and several shake ups in the Board of Directors followed. Business continued to go badly, and by 1969 the Companyhad been taken over by Jessel Securities. Sandbach Industries went into liquidation in 1969, and K R Hunt Ltd and Sandbach Export Ltd were sold off.The company was wound up in 1972, and Jessel Securities itself later went into liquidation.

Archival history: It is not known where the ICS holding of Sandbach Tinne & Co. correspondence comes from. It was purchased by a stamp dealer for the envelopes and then passed to ICS.

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CONTENT AND STRUCTURE AREA

Scope and content: Correspondence between McInroy Sandbach & Co of Demerara [later Sandbach Parker & Co] and McInroy Parker & Co of Glasgow [later Sandbach Tinne & Co of Liverpool] concerning sugar, rum, coffee, and fishing and cotton trades, shipments, the purchase and sale of estates, and political and economic conditions in the Caribbean and Europe.

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System of arrangement: Chronological

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Language/scripts of material: English

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Finding aids: List available in the ICS Library.

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Related units of description: Other records of Sandbach Tinne & Co. are in Guyana University Library, the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, and the Lancashire Record Office.

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DESCRIPTION CONTROL AREA

Recorder'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: February 2002

Interest: Caribbean

Specific group:

Subjects

Manufacturing industry

Food industry

Agricultural products

Food

Fishing industry

Trade

International trade

Colonial trade

Personal/Corporate names

McInroy, Sandbach and Co, Demerara

Sandbach, Parker & Co Ltd, Liverpool

Sandbach, Tinne and Co, Liverpool

Places

Caribbean

South America

Guyana

Demerara