IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 Q/DEW
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: DEW
Date(s): 1721-1877
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.15 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Various.
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
These papers were collected for their general or antiquarian interest, rather than having a united provenance (that is, being produced by the same institution or business).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Collection of legal documents, wills, bonds, business arrangements, and title deeds for premises in Spitalfields, Limehouse, Holborn, Westminster, Hackney, Stepney, Lincoln's Inn, Bermondsey and Saint Marylebone.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Some of the deeds and papers in this collection are clearly related and these have been grouped together with the apparently unrelated items following. It is just possible however that some of the latter may have been linked with the former, and each other. The groups are listed below under the name of the person from whom they appear to derive:-
Q/DEW/1 - 5 John Maintru;
Q/DEW/6 - 12 William Butler;
Q/DEW/13 - 15 Elizabeth Huet/Hewet;
Q/DEW/16 - 18 John Dangerfield and Aubrey Joseph Lum;
Q/DEW/19, 20 Henry Goolding;
Q/DEW/21, 22 John Naylor Clayton;
Q/DEW/23 - 30 Miscellaneous.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Records from the Dew collection deposited in the London County Record Office and later in the Greater London Record Office, 1 January and 11 March 1954, and 29 January 1969.
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: August to October 2010.