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London Metropolitan Archives

CHATTERLY FAMILY


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.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Apprenticeship records | Documents | Information sources
Family archives | Personal papers | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Family records | Personal papers | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Lightermen | People by occupation | People
Watermen | Transport personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
Saint Martin in the Fields | City of Westminster | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe