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- 1816-1866 (Creation)
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2 production units.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
John Houghton Wickes and Alfred Nelson Wickes, both of Clements Lane, Lombard Street, were undertakers and successively parish clerk of the united parishes of St Edmund the King and Martyr and St Nicholas Acons. AN Wickes was also a watch and clockmaker.
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GB 0074 CLC/517 1816-1866 Collection 2 production units. Wickes , John Houghton , fl 1816-1866 , undertaker
John Houghton Wickes and Alfred Nelson Wickes, both of Clements Lane, Lombard Street, were undertakers and successively parish clerk of the united parishes of St Edmund the King and Martyr and St Nicholas Acons. AN Wickes was also a watch and clockmaker.
The records of JH Wickes and AN Wickes were presented to the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library by a private individual in 1965 and catalogued in 1966 by a member of Guildhall Library staff. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
These records comprise account books of funerals performed by John Houghton Wickes, 1816-36 and by John Houghton Wickes and Alfred Nelson Wickes 1840-7 and 1855-66.
Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.
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.
Records prepared May to September 2011. Accounts Accounts ledgers People People by occupation Undertakers Information sources Documents Business records Financial records Undertaking Occupations Wickes , John Houghton , fl 1816-1866 , undertaker
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
The records of JH Wickes and AN Wickes were presented to the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library by a private individual in 1965 and catalogued in 1966 by a member of Guildhall Library staff. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
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Scope and content
These records comprise account books of funerals performed by John Houghton Wickes, 1816-36 and by John Houghton Wickes and Alfred Nelson Wickes 1840-7 and 1855-66.
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Accruals
System of arrangement
Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.
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Conditions governing access
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
- Latin
Language and script notes
English
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Finding aids
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
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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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Language(s)
- English