HUGUENOT FRIENDLY BENEFIT SOCIETY

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 CLC/144
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: HUGUENOT FRIENDLY BENEFIT SOCIETY
Date(s)	: 1797-1912
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 16 production units.
Name of creator(s)	: Huguenot Friendly Benefit Society

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Huguenot Friendly Benefit Society was founded in 1687 as the Society of Parisians. It met at the Norfolk Arms in William Street in the parish of St Matthew Bethnal Green and the membership was limited to 61 persons.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Huguenot Friendly Benefit Society comprising minutes, lists of members, and financial records.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

The records have been sorted into an order which reflects divisions between the different functions and operations of the organisation and its administration.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the City of London.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The records were donated to Guildhall Library in 1957 and were catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in the same year. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

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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:
June to August 2010.