IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/037
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: BRITISH FACTORY, OPORTO
Date(s): 1716-1814
Level of description: Collection
Extent: Two production items.
Name of creator(s): British Factory | Oporto
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
A 'factory' in this context is an establishment for traders carrying on business in a foreign country or a merchant company's trading station. The Factory often included a chapel and chaplain so that merchants could attend English language, Protestant worship.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Registers of baptisms, marriages and burials for the British Factory at Oporto, 1716-1807.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Two volumes in chronological order.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to these records rests with the depositor.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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.