Colonial Despatches

Cotterill & Sons was the legal firm of William Henry Cotterill and James Hardman Cotterill.1 In 1860, the company wrote the Colonial Office asking about real estate laws in British Columbia and Vancouver Island.2 According to the Solicitors' Journal, William disappeared in 1870, leaving behind nearly £100,000 in debt.3

• 1. The Legal Observer Digest [vol. 34, 1847] (London: Alexander Maxwell & Son, 1847), 30. http://n2t.net/ark:/13960/t0cw6mn9r
• 2. Cotterill & Sons to Newcastle, 2 February 1860, CO 305:15, no. 1150, 583. V606C01.html
• 3. The Solicitor's Journal and Reporter [vol. 14, 1869-70] (London, 1870), 460. http://n2t.net/ark:/13960/t6q07b42h