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COMYNS, WILLIAM (AND SONS)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/1871

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: COMYNS, WILLIAM (AND SONS)

Date(s): 1688-1929

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.30 linear metres.

Name of creator(s): William Comyns and Sons | manufacturing silversmiths

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

William Comyns of Lena Villa, Highgate Rise was a silversmith. He appears to have retired to Bromley, assigning his property to Charles Harling Comyns and Richard Henry Comyns of 41 Beak Street, silversmiths, presumably his sons. Charles and Richard traded as William Comyns and Sons, manufacturing silversmiths, from the Beak Street address.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records relating to property on Beak Street and Poland Street, Soho, owned by William Comyns and Sons.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

ACC/1871/001 to 104.

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 August 1983.

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.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Property owners | People by roles | People
Property ownership | Civil law | Legal systems | Law
Property transfer | Property
Retail premises | Commercial premises
Right to property | Civil and political rights | Human rights
Silversmiths | Metal workers | Skilled personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Property law x Right to property

Personal names

Corporate names
William Comyns and Sons | manufacturing silversmiths

Places
Soho | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
City of Westminster