IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/0704
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: JESSOP AND GOUGH {SOLICITORS}
Date(s): 1726-1920
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 10.08 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Jessop and Gough | solicitors
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The firm of Jessop and Gough was based at 29 High Bridge Street, Waltham Abbey, Essex. Frederick Charles Edenborough Jessop was a solicitor, commissioner for oaths, vestry clerk for the local church of Waltham Holy Cross, clerk to the Urban District Council, the burial board and the committee for education. Hubert Gough was a solicitor and clerk to the justices of Edmonton Petty Sessions division for over fifty years. They were joined by John Bolle Tyndale Gough, solicitor.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Jessop and Gough, solicitors, 1726-1920, including practice papers; papers arising from work as clerks to Edmonton petty sessions, relating to licensing, rates, school attendance and certain other matters; list of Guardians of Edmonton Union, elected between 1865 and 1879; vestry papers for Waltham Abbey parish, and correspondence. The papers relate mainly to Edmonton and Enfield, but also Wood Green, Kentish Town, Islington, Waltham Abbey, Hendon, Ponders End, Cricklewood, Lea Valley, Harrow, Lee, Catford and Tottenham.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Practice papers: ACC/0704/01-18; Edmonton petty sessions: ACC/0704/19-67.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright 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:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Received in 1959
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: July to October 2009