IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0813 POST 9 Series
Held at: British Postal Museum and Archive: The Royal Mail Archive
Title: Post Office: Accounts
Date(s): 1715-1948
Level of description: Series
Extent: 175 volumes and 14 files
Name of creator(s): Post Office
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Accounts created during the transaction of Post Office business.
POST 9 consists of the following series: statements and accounts of gross and net produce of the General Post Office revenue; Receiver or Accountant General's cash account journals; accounts of daily, monthly, quarterly or annual receipts and payments, inland foreign and colonial services; District Surveyors' incident expense accounts, England and Wales; District Surveyors' monthly accounts of provincial riding work payments to contractors, England and Wales; Account of provincial postmasters' allowances and payments, England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland; detailed returns of provincial post offices in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland; ledgers and lists of old debts of postmasters and other officers; salary schedules and authorities, GPO London, Twopenny Post Office and London District Post Office accounts; accounts of individual post offices, inland and overseas; miscellaneous accounts.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
This series comprises a wide variety of 18th, 19th and some 20th century account books and schedules relating to Post Office business.
A number of items in this series will be useful to researchers of 19th century family history. POST 9/112-130 contains names of mail conveyance contractors, 1854-1874; POST 9/139 list names of postmasters, 1847- 1848; POST 9/66-76 includes names of postmasters and their date of appointment, 1855-1873; POST 9/146-163 contains names of officers working in the Post Office in London. The volumes do not contain name indexes.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Chronological
Conditions governing access:
Public Record
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Postal Heritage Trust's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. See our published policies for full details. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
Finding aids:
Please contact the Archive for further information.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Records transferred internally from Royal Mail.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: 24/03/2011 EAD validated May 2011