Collection GB 0074 CLC/B/227-164 - SILLS, RAMSAY AND GRAY (WHARFINGERS)

One production unit.

GB 0074 CLC/B/227-164 1812-1817 Collection One production unit. Sills, Ramsay and Gray , wharfingers

Sills, Ramsay and Gray were wharfingers and agents with premises at Hambro Wharf and Three Cranes Wharf. The firm had its origins in a business established by Jonathan Sills, who first appears in trade directories in 1771 described as a merchant of 9 Upper Thames Street.

By 1790 Jonathan Sills had taken two of his sons, Joseph (b 1766) and Jonathan junior (b 1771), into partnership, trading as Jonathan Sills and Sons, merchants and wharfingers of Hambro Wharf and 217 Upper Thames Street. Jonathan Sills senior died in 1800, but his sons continued the business.

In about 1812, Joseph and Jonathan Sills entered into partnership with Thomas Ramsay and Robert Gray, trading as Sills, Ramsay and Gray, wharfingers and agents of Hambro Wharf and Three Cranes Wharf. The firm was styled Sills, Ramsay and Gray, 1813-1818; variously as Sills, Ramsay and Sills or Sills, Ramsay and Company, 1819-1821; and Sills and Company, 1822-3. It disappears from the directories in 1824.

Donated to the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1947 by the City of London Brewery. There is no apparent connection between the brewery and the company. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Accounts ledger of Sills, Ramsay and Gray, wharfingers.

One volume.

Available for general access.

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

English

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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Donated to the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1947 by the City of London Brewery. There is no apparent connection between the brewery and the company. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Accounts ledger of Sills, Ramsay and Gray, wharfingers.

One volume.

Available for general access.

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

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English

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• anglais