I would like to know more about Jacob Mould. 
here is a summary of all that is known to me:

date of birth unk
place   England?
occupation merchant
served as Governor of a Fort in Anamambu (Ghana-Gold Coast) 1805-1807
married Mary Ann Oakley of London/Chislehurst subsequently 
one son  Jacob Wrey Mould b 1825
date of death  1841
place Cork, Ireland

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Request for Question Clarification by grimace-ga on 29 Apr 2002 12:10 PDT

Hi -
Do you happen to have the date for his marriage? 

I'm down the road from Chislehurst, and will check in the local
records office of the library for a marriage certificate if I've got a
date to go on. That should provide, at least, his date and plave of
birth and father's name.

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Clarification of Question by lulug-ga on 30 Apr 2002 06:25 PDT

my thanks to grimace-ga  for the interest in my query.  I was actually
in Bromley (at the Local History Room) a few weeks ago trying to find
anything relevant. What bad luck I had.  There was a wild-cat labor
strike that morning and most of the staff was out picketing. Perhaps
you can find more than I did.

I have no date for Jacob Mould's marriage to Mary Ann, indeed I have
become convinced that it took place in London, her family lived/had a
business on Church Street in Southwark.  Mary Ann is buried in the
churchyard at ST. Nicholas in Chislehurst, 1875. Of course I have
searched on-line (Free BMD) with no results, for a marriage between
1815-1825, the latter  date being the dob of the son, Jacob Wrey
Mould.

Perhaps you will succeed where I did not.   Again, I am eager to have
any information about jacob Mould that goes beyond what is now known. 
Place of birth, dob, occupation, marriage, etc.  I should also say,
please give the sources of any further information.

Thanks and good luck, can't wait to hear from you.

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Request for Question Clarification by grimace-ga on 02 May 2002 09:58 PDT

Okay -
I should be able to get to Bromley library, and - hopefully - the
local history centre in Lewisham, on Saturday.

I wouldn't hold out a great deal of hope, but I'll have a rummage
anyway.

I'll keep you posted,

grimace

PS I assume these messages

http://www.applebymagna.org.uk/appleby_history/_disc3/00000001.htm
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/an/surnames.mould/93

are from you. If not, perhaps you have a long-lost cousin!

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Clarification of Question by lulug-ga on 04 May 2002 06:39 PDT

Thanks, Grimace.  Yes, and all the other messages re: Mould you may
find are from me. I have been hunting for a long time.  I look forward
to hearing your results.

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Request for Question Clarification by grimace-ga on 12 May 2002 08:12 PDT

Sorry, lulug-ga - no luck in the libraries. 

I dare say you have already been in touch with the North West Kent
Historical Society - they can supply microfiche copies of the church
BMD records for St Nick's Chislehurst.

http://www.nwkfhs.org.uk/PUBLICNS.HTM

Anyway - good luck in your continuing search. I'm afraid I have to
hang up my hat on this one. By the way - Google has apparently brough
in a new rule asking researchers not to "answer questions seeking any
personal or contact
information about individuals" - so strictly speaking I shouldn't be
doing this anyway. Presumably it's a libel thing.

Hi,
After searching Google and many other engines, there are only 2 links
that are pointing to this name:

1. http://www.applebymagna.org.uk/appleby_history/_disc3/00000001.htm
This link itself is a question. So nothing much here.
2. http://www.yukonalaska.com/pathfinder/gen/fam00057.htm
This links give a family tree with names, year born, year died.
Similarly, there is a mention of the ancestry over here:
[http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/an/surnames.mould/93]
[http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/an/surnames.mould/94]

Also check out this link 
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?f=search&r=an&p=surnames.mould&application=public&query=jacob+mould&filter=

There is a link which gives some info about the work done by his son,
but there is no mention about him. His son was an architect and
designed many architectual features in Central Park in New York.
[http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~rmr/docs/08.01.15-malldet.html]
[http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~rmr/docs/08.01.16-arches.html]

As jk-ga mentioned in comments, details about his son's death and
death-place are available here.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4698

This is what can be extracted from net. I even checked my local
library but there is no mention of this person.

I hope you'll get info from some local library in your locality.
All the best in your search venture. 
Regards,
netcrazy

According to http://www.geocities.com/bcahoon.geo/Ghana.html he served
as governor for two different periods than the one you have found:

16 Dec 1798 - 4 Jan 1799 Jacob Mould (1st time)
30 Sep 1802 - 8 Feb 1805 Jacob Mould (2nd time)

Apart from that, there wasn't much more I could find on Jacob Mould. 
Jacob Wrey Mould is buried at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn.
(http://www.findagrave.com/state/36.html)

twice a governor , but the real question is ?

The governor's post was, as you know, part of The Company of Merchants
Trading to Africa, so you could look for details in the Company's own
records and later commentary. There is an American scholar in exactly
that area: "Ty Reese is currently an assistant professor of Atlantic
world history at the University of North Dakota.  His dissertation,
completed in August 1999, comparatively examined laborers and labor
systems, within the context of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, in
three Atlantic ports — Cape Coast Castle, London, and Philadelphia. 
He is currently engaged in research on Cape Coast during a period of
established, and mutual, economic activity at England's coastal
administrative center.  This Gold Coast micro-history will explore the
social, economic, political, and cultural consequences of the slave
trade and African/European interaction on the Cape Coast peoples."

For contact information, see
http://www.nd-humanities.org/html/reese.html