Papers of Alexander Ferrier (c1790-c1848), plantation owner, Dutch Guiana

• Personal correspondence 1831-1848.

Alexander Ferrier was born in Scotland in 1790  . He moved to the Republic of Suriname (formerly known as Dutch Guiana) with his brother Robert and became a plantation owner. In 1829  he married Margaret Pearson and they had four children. He returned to Scotland in around 1835  where he built a private villa at Cardross, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, although he also owned Broomhill House. Following the collapse of the sugar trade in the 1840s  , Alexander returned to the Republic of Suriname. He died during a voyage returning to Scotland around 1848.

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This material was accumulated by descendants of Alexander Ferrier from a number of unknown sources, and deposited with Economic History Department, Glasgow University, in c1964. Management of the collection transferred to Glasgow University Archives in 1975.

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Compiled by Jenny Cooknell, Assistant Archivist, 24 May 1999

Title, administrative history and immediate source of acquisition or transfer notes altered by Jenny Cooknell, Assistant Archivist, 6 September 1999.

Updated by Lesley Richmond, Acting Director, 3 March 2000

Updated by David Powell, Hub Project Archivist, 28 February 2002.

Updated by Gemma Tougher, Assistant Archivist (Cataloguin), 17 September 2012.