IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 O/086
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: SHORTER FAMILY
Date(s): 1551-1840
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.45 linear metres.
Name of creator(s): Various.
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Charles Shorter was a merchant living in the City of London in 1659, and in Southwark by 1691.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Collection of documents relating to property transactions. The properties are situated across South London, including Bermondsey, Stratford, Southwark, Rotherhithe, Denmark Hill, Camberwell, Newington, and Ratcliffe. The properties include wharves, public houses, warehouses, messuages and houses.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
O/086/001 to O/086/137.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Formerly BRS/DA.1932.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Records deposited by the British Records Society c 1930-1931.
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: Records prepared May to September 2011.