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SILLS, RAMSAY AND GRAY (WHARFINGERS)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/227-164

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: SILLS, RAMSAY AND GRAY (WHARFINGERS)

Date(s): 1812-1817

Level of description: Collection

Extent: One production unit.

Name of creator(s): Sills, Ramsay and Gray | wharfingers

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Sills, Ramsay and Gray were wharfingers and agents with premises at Hambro Wharf and Three Cranes Wharf. The firm had its origins in a business established by Jonathan Sills, who first appears in trade directories in 1771 described as a merchant of 9 Upper Thames Street.

By 1790 Jonathan Sills had taken two of his sons, Joseph (b 1766) and Jonathan junior (b 1771), into partnership, trading as Jonathan Sills and Sons, merchants and wharfingers of Hambro Wharf and 217 Upper Thames Street. Jonathan Sills senior died in 1800, but his sons continued the business.

In about 1812, Joseph and Jonathan Sills entered into partnership with Thomas Ramsay and Robert Gray, trading as Sills, Ramsay and Gray, wharfingers and agents of Hambro Wharf and Three Cranes Wharf. The firm was styled Sills, Ramsay and Gray, 1813-1818; variously as Sills, Ramsay and Sills or Sills, Ramsay and Company, 1819-1821; and Sills and Company, 1822-3. It disappears from the directories in 1824.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Accounts ledger of Sills, Ramsay and Gray, wharfingers.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

One volume.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

Finding aids:

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

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated to the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1947 by the City of London Brewery. There is no apparent connection between the brewery and the company. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note:

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: January to May 2011.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Warehouses | Commercial buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Wharfingers | Dock workers | Manual workers | Workers | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Wharves | Structural components | Building components

Personal names

Corporate names
Sills | Ramsay and Gray | wharfingers

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