IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 F/PEY
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: PEACHEY FAMILY
Date(s): 1656-1958
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.45 linear metres (477 documents).
Name of creator(s): Peachey | family | of London
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Members of the family represented in this collection include Admiral John Ferrier; Robert Hynam, watchmaker to the Tzars, who lived in St Petersburg during the invasion of Russia by French forces; Charles Bernard Peachey, on service in South Africa during the Boer War; and Hugh Graham Peachey, on service in France during the First World War.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of the Peachey family, consisting of official and family correspondence and papers, financial records, legal papers, and artefacts.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
F/PEY/001 to F/PEY/477.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.
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:
Records deposited in January 1956 and November 1958.
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.