IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 F/CHT
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: CHATTERLY FAMILY
Date(s): 1749-1792
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.01 linear metres (6 documents).
Name of creator(s): Chatterly | family | of St Martin in the Fields, London
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Chatterly family lived at St Martin in the Fields. Watermen were boatmen or licensed wherry-men who were available for hire on the river Thames. Lightermen owned and operated lighters, flat-bottomed barges which were used in 'lightening' or unloading ships that could not be unloaded at a wharf, and also used for transporting goods of any kind.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Chatterly family, including apprenticeship certificate as waterman and lighterman, admissions to the Company of Watermen and Lightermen, and bill.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
F/CHT/001 to F/CHT/006.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.
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:
Purchased by the Archive in May 1970.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
See CLC/L/WA for records of the Company of Watermen and Lightermen.
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.