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INDEPENDENT BURIAL SOCIETY

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/074

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: INDEPENDENT BURIAL SOCIETY

Date(s): 1919-1953

Level of description: Collection

Extent: Two production units.

Name of creator(s): Independent Burial Society

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Established in 1833 in Manchester, the Independent Burial Society was taken over by the Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society in 1953.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Minute books of the Independent Burial Society.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Two volumes in chronological order.

Conditions governing access:

Access by appointment only. Please contact staff.

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:

Deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES 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: June to August 2010.

INDEX ENTRIES

Subjects

Benevolent societies | Societies | Associations | Organizations

Burial | Death | Life cycle

Burial insurance | Insurance | Finance

Personal names

Corporate names

Independent Burial Society

Places

England | UK | Western Europe | Europe