IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/035
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: BRITISH FACTORY AT LEGHORN
Date(s): 1810
Level of description: Collection
Extent: One production unit.
Name of creator(s): British Factory | Leghorn
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
A 'factory' in this context is an establishment for traders carrying on business in a foreign country or a merchant company's trading station. Leghorn or Livorno is a port city in Tuscany which was important for trade with the Levant and the population included many foreign merchants. There was a thriving and wealthy British community there which used the British Factory chapel and chaplain for Protestant services. The Factory closed in 1825 and the community dwindled.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Transcription of the register of the British Factory chapel at Leghorn [Livorno], covering the years 1707 to 1783.
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 these records rests with the depositor.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
This volume was deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1989. It was catalogued in the same year by a member of Guildhall Library staff. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
The original register is held at the National Archives.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: June to August 2010.