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London Metropolitan Archives

CONNELL FAMILY


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/057

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: CONNELL FAMILY

Date(s): 1847-1902

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 3 production units.

Name of creator(s): Unknown.

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Internal evidence suggests that these records belonged to the firm of William Connell (1839-75), William George Connell (1876-1902) and George Laurence Connell (1903-39), at 22 Myddleton Street, Spitalfields (1839-46) and 83 Cheapside (1847-1939).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

'Stock books' of an unidentified clock and watch maker, recording manufacturing costs, retail prices and sales of individual clocks, watches and chains; also accounts book recording the costs of components.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection 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:

The records were deposited at Guildhall by the Clockmakers' Company in 1972. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section 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: November 2010 to January 2011.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Clockmakers | Craft workers | Skilled workers | Workers | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Clocks | Time measuring instruments | Measuring instruments | Scientific equipment | Equipment
Horology | Metal industry | Manufacturing industry | Industry
Watches | Time measuring instruments | Measuring instruments | Scientific equipment | Equipment
Clocks x Time measuring instruments

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
City of London | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe