IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/215-19
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: ALDGATE FREEDOM FOUNDATION
Date(s): 1883-1965
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 4 production units.
Name of creator(s): Aldgate Freedom Foundation | parochial charity
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Established in 1883 to administer the united charities of the Freedom (i.e. within the City) part of St. Botolph Aldgate. Monies were paid to maintain Tower Gardens and St Botolph Aldgate churchyard; almspeople at Lumley Almshouses, pensions and medical relief for poor of parish.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Aldgate Freedom Foundation parochial charity, including Governing Body minutes; Charity Commissioners' schemes, and annual statements of accounts.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
CLC/215/MS31226 to MS31229.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection 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:
The archive was deposited in Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section by the Sir John Cass's Foundation in 1995 (apart from Ms 19627-8). The records were catalogued by a member of the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
For records of St Botolph Aldgate see P69/BOT2.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: August to October 2010.