The records chart the transfer of property within the family through the generations, beginning with a copy of the manorial court roll showing the acquisition of a cottage in Pinner Street, Harrow, by Mary Bodymaid {sic} in 1699 {ACC/0945/001}. In 1710 William Bodymead acquired cottages on Clay Hill, in the Manor of Bushey; which by his will of 1738 were divided between his three youngest sons {ACC/0945/003}. The rest of the estate passed to William's widow and to his eldest son, also called William. This William Bodimead was contemplating a partnership with his eldest John in 1767, which gave rise to the 'Rest Book or Inventory' {ACC/0945/014}, which is quite extensively detailed. Also worth noting is the inventory from 1789, covering the goods and chattels of the deceased Ann Bodymeade, who was presumably the widow and mother of the aforementioned William and John. The latest records are two letters from 1966 from Philip Blackwell to Miss A.M. Pollard (reference librarian in the London Borough of Harrow at that time) offering background on these papers which had belonged to his grandfather.
Sem títuloRecords relating to land in Kilburn held by the Kilburn Brewery, 1832-1847, including conveyance, mortgage and abstract of title.
Sem títuloPapers, 1848-1913, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in the Southbury Park estate, Enfield; including leases, releases, mortgages, conveyances and securities.
Sem títuloPapers, 1892-1900, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising lease for a property in Shepperton, and agreements, mortgages, insurance policies and surveyor's certificates for premises in Willesden.
Sem títuloRecords of the Strudwick family relating to property in Ealing.
Sem títuloRecords of the novelist George Payne Rainsford James and his family, a total of about 350 items, with documents relating to other families, either short series or isolated items. There are several wills and settlements among the papers (ACC/0976/136-155). The manuscript of chapters 14-22 of the novel Ehrenstein is preserved among these archives (ACC/0976/163). There is a series of title deeds to an entailed estate at Hampton Wick and Teddington inherited by James; papers relating to law-suits with various publishers (ACC/0976/156-171); and a petition to the Foreign Secretary (ACC/0976/222).
Sem títuloRecords of the Church Commissioners, 1814-1907, including a glebe exchange award, Ruislip, with map [a glebe is a portion of land assigned to a clergyman as part of his benefice]; documents relating to altered apportionments of corn rents, Ruislip; plans of the Parish of Enfield and the Parish of Edmonton; architect's drawings of houses and shops-cum-residences on Hornsey Clebe Estate; "Plan of Land near Harrow on the Hill, adjoining the Station on the London and North Western Railway, showing the proposed arrangement of the Sites for Villas, the Roads, etc." and plan of the District of the Hornsey Local Board.
Sem títuloPapers, 1824-1887, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Hampton, including copies of the court roll of Hampton Court, enfranchisements and an admission.
Sem títuloPapers, 1853-1946, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Acton, including mortgages, leases, conveyances and reconveyances.
Sem títuloDeed of partnership between Cuthbert Coates Smith and Bernard Edgar Aylwin to trade for five years as engineers as The Vaal Motor and Launch Company, 9th January 1902.
Sem títuloThese records relate mostly to the estates of the Mitchison family and their relations in Middlesex, London, Northumberland, Surrey and elsewhere, which were managed by William Anthony Mitchison, the elder, on behalf of his father John Mitchison, the elder, his brother John Mitchison, the younger, and himself in the mid and late nineteenth century. The remainder of the accession is composed of private papers of members of the Mitchison family. These are generally draft marriage settlements, drafts wills, and draft executors' papers. There are also some papers relating to trusts and shares. The private papers of John Mitchison the younger include, besides papers relating to the inquiry into his state of mind, transcripts of accounts of his estate from 1856-99, and records relating to his establishment in Brighton.
This accession was originally composed of forty bundles, bearing solicitors' numbering on the wrapper, where these remained. Most also bore labels giving a rough summary of the contents-not always correct-the sectors' number and a title assigning it to a member of the Mitchison, Maw or Sturges family (ref: ACC/1156/154). These have been used as sectional headings in the catalogue, and where the label does not survive, or is defective, the bundle has been assigned to the member of the family who from the contents, seems likely to have been the original assignee. In a few cases, new titles have had to be substituted, as in 178, 191-3. Inside each bundle was one or more bundles which form the basic unit of this list. A corresponding list of the original larger bundles with the new numbering of the inner bundles is appended. Bundles 807, 813 and 868 appear to be incomplete. The contents of the bundles are largely draft deeds, mostly leases and affidavits, and correspondence. As solicitors' drafts, the information given in the draft affidavits is on occasions contradictory or misleading. There are a few original deeds, inducing a small number of conveyances. In several bundles, stamps are missing from correspondence.
Sem títuloRecords of the Kincaid and Lonsdale families, including baptism, marriage and death certificates; wills and probates; funeral records; apprenticeship indenture to a woollen draper; City of London freedom admission; family correspondence and reminiscences; financial papers; Lonsdale family photographs; and items of needlework made by members of the Lonsdale family.
Sem títuloPapers, 1779-1880, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Edmonton and Enfield, including lease and releases, probate of will and agreements.
Sem títuloRecords of the East Surrey Traction Company, 1911-1957, consisting of minute and agenda books, agreements, register of members, newspaper cuttings books, memorandum and articles of association, annual reports, correspondence relating to the purchase by London General Omnibus Company Limited and menu of first annual staff dinner.
Sem títuloRecords of Sungei Bahru Rubber Estates Limited, including articles of association; minute books; annual reports and accounts; circulars; and financial accounts.
Access to records less than 30 years old should be sought from Elementis plc (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).
Sem títuloRecords relating to T.R.S. Limited, investment company, including articles of association; minutes; papers presented at meetings; annual reports and accounts; and statements of investments.
Access to records less than 30 years old should be sought from Elementis plc (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).
Sem títuloCorrespondence and papers of the Technical Advisory and Service Company Limited.
Sem títuloCirculars of the United Cocoa Development Company Limited.
Sem títuloRecords of United Serdang (Sumatra) Rubber Plantations Limited, including memorandum and articles of association; minutes; annual reports and accounts; circulars; and ledgers.
Access to records less than 30 years old should be sought from Elementis plc (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).
Sem títuloRecords of Zaloni Tea Estates Limited, comprising annual reports and accounts; and circulars.
Sem títuloRecords of Hill Vellacott, accountants, including partnership agreements; partners' minute book; correspondence; financial accounts; client files; photographs of partners; papers regarding staff; and lectures and speeches on accountancy.
Sem títuloRecords of the business of Holtzapffel and Company, 1794-1928, together with some personal papers of members of the Holtzapffel family, 1788-1847, and of Johann Georg Deyerlein (J. J. Holtzapffel's partner), 1786-9. The archive comprises financial and property records, a pedigree of the family and notes about purchasers and susequent owners of the lathes including a register of lathes made by Holtzapffel and Co between 1798 and 1928.
Sem títuloRecords of the companies making up the Inchcape Group, including:
- Adamson, Bell and Company: see Dodwell and Company;
- Adamson (W. R.) and Company: see Dodwell and Company;
- African Marine and General Engineering Company: see Smith, Mackenzie and Company;
- African Wharfage Company: see Smith, Mackenzie and Company;
- Alexandra Brickworks Limited: see Borneo Company;
- Anglo Siam Corporation: see Anglo Thai Corporation;
- Anglo Thai Corporation: Ms 27001-034;
- Arbuthnot, Ewart and Company: see Anglo Thai Corporation;
- Argonauts Investments Limited: see Assam and African Investments Limited;
- Assam and African Holdings Limited: see Assam and African Investments Limited;
- Assam and African Investments Limited: Ms 27035-45;
- Assam Company Limited: Ms 8794-8803; 9924-9936; 11497-504; 23723-5 and 27046-103;
- Assam Estates Limited: Ms 27104-7;
- Australasian United Steam Navigation Company: 27108-45;
- Baghdad Light and Power Company: 27146-7;
- Bahrein Slipway Company: see Gray, Mackenzie and Company;
- Bally Paper Mills Company: see Borneo Company;
- Bangalore Woollen, Cotton and Silk Mills Company: see Binny and Company;
- Barnagore Jute Factory Company: see Borneo Company;
- Barry and Company: see Macneill and Barry;
- Barry, J. B. and Son: see Duncan Macneill and Company;
- Bhooteachang Tea Company: Ms 27148;
- Binny and Company: Ms 27149-73;
- Borneo Agencies Limited: see Borneo Company;
- Borneo Company: Ms 27174-474;
- Borneo Motors Limited: see Borneo Company;
- Brae and Chingoor Tea Estates Limited: Ms 27475-7;
- British India and Queensland Agency Company: Ms 27478-9;
- British India Associated Steamers Limited: Ms 27480-6;
- Bruseh Tin and Rubber Estates Limited: see Borneo Company;
- Bulkships Limited: Ms 27487;
- Cawnpore Electric Supply Corporation: Ms 27488;
- Cheerie Valley Tea Company: Ms 27489;
- Child, Macfarland and Company: Ms 27490-1;
- Dalhousie Jute Company: Ms 27492;
- Delmege, Allen and Company: Ms 27493-4;
- Delmege, Forsyth and Company: 27495-7;
- Dilmun Navigation Company: see Gray, Mackenzie and Company;
- Dodwell and Company: Ms 27498-526;
- Dodwell, Carlill and Company: see Dodwell and Company;
- Dodwell Motors Limited: see Dodwell and Company;
- Duncan Macneill and Company: Ms 27527-90;
- Eastern and Australian Steampship Company: see Australasian United Steam Navigation Company;
- Ewart, Latham and Company: see Anglo Thai Corporation;
- Ewart, Lyon and Company: see Anglo Thai Corporation;
- Ewart, Ryrie and Company: see Anglo Thai Corporation;
- Ganges Transport and Trading Company: Ms 27591-2;
- Garden Reach Spinning and Manufacturing Company: Ms 27592A;
- Garden Reach Workshops Limited: see Rivers Steam Navigation Company;
- Gibb, Livingston and Company: Ms 27593-6;
- Gillanders, Ewart and Company: see Anglo Thai Corporation;
- Gilman (Holdings) Limited: Ms 27597;
- Gourepore Company: Ms 27598;
- Gourepore Electric Supply Company: Ms 27599;
- Gray, Dawes and Company: Ms 27600-87;
- Gray, Mackenzie and Company: Ms 27688-745;
- Gray, Paul and Company: see Gray, Mackenzie and Company;
- Greenwood Tea Company: Ms 27746-52;
- Haboko Tea Company: see Borneo Company;
- Hain (Edward) and Son: see St Mary Axe Securities Limited;
- India General Navigation and Railway Company: Ms 27753-65;
- India General Steam Navigation Company: see India General Navigation and Railway Company;
- India Rivers Steam Navigation Company: see Rivers Steam Navigation Company;
- Islay, Kerr and Company: Ms 27766-9;
- Java Agency Company: Ms 27770;
- Kalline Tea Company: Ms 27771-4;
- Kenya Landing and Shipping Company: see Smith, Mackenzie and Company;
- Kilburn and Company: see Macneill and Barry Limited;
- Kilburn, Brown and Company: Ms 27775-82;
- Koyah Tea Company: Ms 27783;
- Macdonald, Hamilton and Company: Ms 27784-7;
- Mackay and Company: Ms 27788-92;
- Mackay, Lynch and Company: see Mackay and Company;
- Mackinnon, Mackenzie and Company: Ms 27793-848;
- Mackinnon (W.) and Company: Ms 27849-50;
- Macneill and Barry Limited: Ms 27851-94;
- Macneill and Company: see Macneill and Barry Limited;
- Macneill and Kilburn Limited: see Macneill and Barry Limited;
- Macneill and Magor Limited: see Macneill and Barry Limited;
- Macneill, Barry and Company: see Duncan Macneill and Company;
- Majagram Tea Company: Ms 27895;
- Mediterranean Transport Company: Ms 27896-902;
- Mesopotamia Persia Corporation: see Gray, Mackenzie and Company;
- Metro-Dodwell Motors Limited: see Dodwell and Company;
- New Rivers Company: see Rivers Steam Navigation Company;
- Ngambo Limited: see Assam and African Investments Limited;
- Northern Dooars Tea Company: Ms 27903-8;
- Nuddea Mills Company: Ms 27909;
- Pahang Consolidated Company: see Borneo Company;
- Pakistan River Steamers Limited: see Rivers Steam Navigation Company;
- Pakistan Rivers Steam Navigation Company: see Rivers Steam Navigation Company;
- Rejang Agencies Limited: see Borneo Company;
- River Steamers Company: see Rivers Steam Navigation Company;
- Rivers Steam Navigation Company: Ms 27910-28101;
- St Mary Axe Securities Limited: Ms 28102-5;
- Salonah Tea Company: Ms 28106-11;
- Sarawak Rubber Estates Limited: see Borneo Company;
- Sarawak Steamship Company: see Borneo Company;
- Scottish Assam Tea Company: Ms 28112-16;
- Siam Forest Company: see Anglo Thai Corporation;
- Silonibari Tea Company: Ms 28117;
- Singapore Plywood Company: see Borneo Company;
- Smith, Mackenzie and Company: Ms 28118-53;
- Tanganyika Landing and Shipping Company: see Smith, Mackenzie and Company;
- Tarrapore Tea Company: Ms 28154-5;
- Thanai Tea Company: Ms 28156-62;
- Upper Assam Tea Company: Ms 28162A;
- Western Cachar Company: Ms 28169-73.
Also published history 'Pioneering Spirit: The story behind Inchcape's remarkable journey', 2010.
Records of Inchcape and Company Limited (1939-2010), including subject files belonging to Kenneth James William Mackay (third Earl of Inchcape) and other directors and seniors. Files concern the formation of the holding company in 1958 and also individual companies within the group.
Sem títuloRecords of Assam and African Holdings Limited, including board minutes and agendas; annual report with accounts; ledger and out-letter books.
Sem títuloRecords of the British India and Queensland Agency Company, comprising articles of association, agreement, and journal.
Sem títuloRecords of Cawnpore Electric Supply Corporation, comprising general ledger.
Sem títuloRecords of Cheerie Valley Tea Company, comprising memorandum and articles of association.
Sem títuloRecords of Child, Macfarland and Company, export agents, comprising private ledger and sales ledger.
Sem títuloRecords of Dodwell and Company Limited, importers, exporters and shipping agents, including board minutes; register of directors; annual reports; financial accounts; private notebooks of George Benjamin Dodwell (relating to the business); correspondence; company handbook; publicity material; newspaper cuttings; photographs; and personal papers of George Benjamin Dodwell.
Sem títuloRecords of Gray, MacKenzie and Company Limited, general merchants and agents in the Persian Gulf, including partnership agreements; articles of association; correspondence; legal papers; financial accounts; annual reports; papers relating to property; historical notes; papers relating to Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company Limited, Bahrein Slipway Company Limited and Dilmun Navigation Company Limited.
Sem títuloRecords of the Greenwood Tea Company Limited, including articles of association and financial records including details of tea sold and seasonal expenses at the tea gardens.
Sem títuloMinute book of the Java Agency Company Limited, shipping agents.
Sem títuloTarrapore Tea Company records comprise: memorandum and articles of association, 1875-1949 (Ms 28154); and plans, 1881-92 (Ms 28155).
Sem títuloWilliam MacKinnon and Company records comprise: partnership deeds, 1919-25 (Ms 27849); and copy minute of an agreement, 1885 (Ms 27850).
Sem títuloInstitute of London Underwriters records as follows: General Meetings minutes (Ms 31840); annual reports (Ms 31841); Committee minutes and agendas (Mss 31842-4); minutes of various lesser committes and sub-committees (Mss 31845-62); registers of members (Ms 31863); ledgers and cash books (Mss 31864-7); circulars (Mss 31868-9); clauses books (Ms 31870); out-letter books (Mss 31871-80); and miscellaneous papers (Mss 31881-97). The 1884 Memorandum and Articles of Association can be found in vol. 1 of the registers of members (Ms 31863).
A cut-off date of 1960 was applied, and volumes or series (other than Circulars) continuing after this date may only be consulted by readers who have written permission from the donor: ask a member of staff for more information.
Sem títuloRecords of the Institute of Meat, a training body for the UK meat industry, comprising constitutional documents, minutes, annual reports and accounts, administrative and estate papers.
Sem títuloRecords of Gordon L Jacobs and Company, stockbrokers, including partner and private client ledgers, share certificates and other financial material, correspondence, reports and agreements.
The records are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access. Some records are subject to a 75 year closure period.
Sem títuloRecords of Nathan and Rosselli, stockbrokers, comprising mainly financial material and staff and client papers.
The records are held off-site and therefore require 24 hours notice for access. Some records are also subject to a 75 year closure period.
Sem títuloThe records of Joseph Preston and Sons, watch, clock and chronometer movement makers, comprise two volumes containing descriptions of parts c 1890-5 and 1892-1914 (Mss 14558, 14560), a cash book 1893-1904 (Ms 14545) and a bank pass book 1907-12 (Ms 14559).
Sem títuloRecords of Kleinwort Benson Group and its predecessors including Kleinwort, Sons and Company relating to the merchant bank and its clients across the world.
The collection consists of a comprehensive series of business records with archives of constituent predecessors, acquired companies and interests. They include partners' and staff papers, operational materials, accounting and financial records, client records and staff and property papers. The records relate to company origins, partners and staff, clients and business concerns across the globe since the 19th century.
Highlights include Kleinwort, Sons and Company's 'subject files' (series reference CLC/B/140/KS04/03) which contain reports and correspondence concerning business ventures, proposals and clients. They document global business concerns and provide a valuable insight to the working practices of the company. Files document issues faced by the firm and its clients in the early to mid-20th century clients including declined international business proposals, fraudulent and enemy debts arising during times of war.
Other highlights are partners' letter books which record their outgoing correspondence discussing both business and family matters. An example is a letter by Herman Anton Andreae in 1915 on his views in support of the decision to establish conscription (enforced enlistment) in the recruitment of soldiers in the First World War (CLC/B/140/KS02/03/002).
The earliest business records are those of Sharps Pixley Limited and its predecessors Sharps Wilkins and Pixley and Abell (CLC/B/140/SP01 to 06). These include monthly ledgers from 1796 (CLC/B/140/SP03/03) and other bullion dealing series (CLC/B/140/SP04/01).
Sem títuloRecords of Legal and General (Unit Assurance) Limited, comprising memorandum and articles of association, annual reports and accounts.
Sem títuloRecords of Legal and General (Unit Pensions) Limited, comprising minutes of annual general meetings and annual reports and accounts.
Sem títuloRecords of Legal and General Investment Trust Limited, including memorandum and articles of association; annual reports and accounts; register of directors and secretaries; register of directors' holdings; and financial records.
Sem títuloPapers of the Reconstruction and Planning Committee of the London Brewer's Council, comprising files of correspondence and reports relating to the distribution and redevelopment of public houses in the Greater London area, 1944-86, with a box contents list and card index.
Sem títuloRecords of predecessor companies of the accountants Moores Rowland, comprising Edward Moore and Sons; Sewell, Hutchinson and Company; Waissen Wilson; and Westcott, Maskall and Company.
Edward Moore and Sons records include London partnership meeting minutes; ledgers; cash books; salaries books; inventory of furniture at the Thames House offices; correspondence; and notes concerning the history of the company.
Sewell, Hutchinson and Company records comprise a balance sheet, 1934; ledgers, 1929-43; and a cash book, 1934-1945.
Waissen Wilson records comprise client records only and include financial and other records relating to the Le Bas Investment Trust, Edward Le Bas and Company and the estate of Edward Le Bas, 1932-67. Edward Le Bas (1904-66) was a painter and collector.
Westcott, Maskall and Company records include various financial and administrative records of the firm 1890-1952.
Please note access is restricted to records less than 30 years old.
Sem títuloRecords of Morgan Grenfell and Company Limited, merchant bankers, and their predecessors; comprising ledgers, journals, letter books, correspondence and other papers.
Access to all the records is restricted to persons with written permission from the depositor (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).
Sem títuloRecords of Mullens and Company, stockbrokers and H M Government brokers, comprising: partnership deeds and related papers, 1862-1964; papers re the formation of an unlimited company, 1946-1965; operational records, c 1850-1954; financial records, 1815-1966; records relating to staff, 1916-48; property records, 1934-1951, and family papers, 1706-1922.
Information on access to records less than 40 years old is available from a member of staff.
Sem títuloWhittington Life Assurance Company records comprise constitutional documents, records of policies, prospectuses and other administrative material. 24 hours notice is required for access to this material.
Sem títuloBusiness and social correspondence of Edward Oates, attorney, of Leeds and Furnival's Inn.
Sem títuloThe records of PW Flower and Sons, merchants, concern the company's trading interests and property investments, and the affairs and investments of the Flower family (see CLC/B/173/MS19469 for a Flower family tree) and of other families with shared or related interests; they include the papers of various trustees by whom some family and business activities were administered.
The records include:
- Mss 19338-55: business records: general, or relating to more than one country;
- Mss 19356-78: business records: Australia, including some Salting family papers (see also Mss 19470-89);
- Mss 19379-93: business records: India, including some Pearse family papers;
- Mss 19394-99: estate records: general or relating to more than one estate;
- Mss 19400-9: estate records: individual estates or properties (except Park Town);
- Mss 19410-38: estate records: Park Town, except maps and plans which are catalogued in the Print and Maps Section;
- Mss 19439-46: family records: executors of P.W. Flower, including references to business and estate matters;
- Mss 19447-69: family records: general, including references to business and estate matters;
- Mss 19470-89: Papers relating to the Salting family of Australia (with which the Flower family had business connections; see also Mss 19356-78) and in particular to George Salting (d 1909) art collector and benefactor to public art galleries.