IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0064 FIL
Held at: National Maritime Museum
Title: Fisher and Lilley families
Date(s): 19th century
Level of description: Collection
Extent:
Name of creator(s): Fisher family
Lilley family
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Thomas (b.1808) and George Fisher (1810-1899) were sons of Captain William Fisher, a Limehouse seaman and shipowner. Thomas appears to have gone to sea but after illness took up residence in the Sandwich Islands and became a carpenter.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Series of letters from him to his brother George, a hairdresser of Leadenhall Street. The latter was a trustee of the young Lilliey family to whom the log of the LINCOLNSHIRE AND THE JOURNAL AND PASSENGER TICKET FOR THE HAMPSHIRE relate.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Please contact the Archive for further information.
Conditions governing reproduction:
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Finding aids:
Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website .
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The papers were presented by T G Lilley in 1963 and 1964.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note:
Date(s) of descriptions: 2010-08-26