IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/428
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: BRADFORD, J G (fl 1930-1933)
Date(s): [1900-1933]
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 74 volumes.
Name of creator(s): Bradford | J G | fl 1930-1933 | historian
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
In a letter to The Times on September 8 1883, a J G Bradford of 157 Dalston Lane, E, wrote of the value of tombstone inscriptions. He stated that he has "as a matter of amusement" copied inscriptions in several churchyards and will leave "the collection at my death to some public library".
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Research notes by J G Bradford, including index to pedigrees and arms contained in the heralds' visitations in the British Museum; genealogical notes relating to members of the peerage; genealogical notes on the mayors of London; and collection of county heraldic visitations.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.
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:
Deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note:
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: Records prepared May to September 2011.