London Metropolitan Archives

MOST FRIENDLY BURIAL SOCIETY

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/094

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: MOST FRIENDLY BURIAL SOCIETY

Date(s): 1904-1933

Level of description: Collection

Extent: One production unit.

Name of creator(s): Most Friendly Burial Society

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The society was taken over by Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society in 1932.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Accounts book of the Most Friendly Burial Society.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

One item.

Conditions governing access:

Access by appointment only. Please contact staff.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Finding aids:

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

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Part of the records of the Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society, which were presented to Guildhall Library in 1998. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

CLC/B/147: records of the Liverpool Independent Legal Victoria Burial Society, later known as the Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society.

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: 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.

Date(s) of descriptions: June to August 2010.

INDEX ENTRIES

Subjects
Benevolent societies | Societies | Associations | Organizations
Burial | Death | Life cycle
Burial insurance | Insurance | Finance
Friendly societies | Financial institutions | Finance

Personal names

Corporate names
Most Friendly Burial Society

Places
England | UK | Western Europe | Europe