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Alexander Law & Co.

Company number:
Not known
Share capital:
£?
Started:
Prior to 1866
Finished:
3rd February 1869
Registered office:

Not known

Oil works:

Listed in Slater's Directory of 1868 as "Law, Alex & Co. (crude), Stand."

Partners

  • James Galbraith (retired 1st January 1868)
  • Campbell Gillan
  • Robert Gillan
  • Alexander Law
  • James Reid (retired 1st January 1868)
  • Cornelius Magnus Emil Schmitz
  • John Walker

  • Newspaper references
    • THE Subscribers, James Galbraith and James Reid, Retired on the 31st ultimo from the Concern of ALEXANDER LAW & COMPANY, Rochsoles Oil Works, of which they and the other Subscribers were the sole Partners. Rochsoles Oil Works, January 1, 1868.
      JAMES GALBRAITH
      JAMES REID
      Signatures of James Galbraith and James Reid witnessed by J.S. Chrystal, William Kidd
      C. M. EMIL
      SCHMITZ
      To the signature of Mr. C.M. Emil Schmitz, - Warby Pickering, witness, John R. Torboch, Witness.
      ROBr. GILLAN. JOHN WALKER. CAMPBELL GILLAN.
      To the signatures of Robert Gillan, John Walker and Campbell Gillan; George Munro, witness, Chas Thomas Jnr. , Witness,
      A. LAW,
      Signed 7th January 1868 at Airdrie, witnessed at Airdrie 7th January 1869, Thomas Lockhard, Daniel Fincher.

      Edinburgh Gazette, 10th January 1868

      .......

      THE Copartnery hitherto carrying on the business of Crude Oil Makers at Rochsoles Oil Works, near Airdrie, under the Firm of ALEXANDER LAW & COMPANY, is this day DISSOLVED by mutual consent of the Subscribers, the sole Partners thereof. Glasgow, February 3, 1869.
      A. LAW.
      CAMPBELL GILLAN.
      ROBT. GILLAN.
      Chas. Thomas, Junr, witness, George Munro, Witness, to the signatures of Alexander Law, Campbell Gillan, and Robert Gillan.
      E. SCHMITZ.
      JOHN WALKER.
      A.G. Anderson , Witness, Thos. Richardson, Witness, to the signatures of Cornelius Magnus Emil Schmitz and John Walker

      Edinburgh Gazette, 9th February 1869