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English and Bristol Channels Ship Canal Company (list of subscribers)

Senate House Library, University of London -- Special Collections

Overview

A list of subscribers to the English and Bristol Channels Ship Canal Company, giving name and addresses of 600 subscribers. This collection may be useful if you know you have a relative who may have been involved in this sort of project. It may give you a small amount of contextualising information which will enable you to move your research on.

Detailed usage description

A list of subscribers to the English and Bristol Channels Ship Canal Company, giving name and addresses of 600 subscribers and names of witnesses. The canal itself was never actually built.

It doesn't give much detail about the planned canal and therefore wouldn't be of great use to a local historian, but if you have very little information about a relative you know to have involved in these sorts of projects, or to have been wealthy enough to offer finance then this collection may point you to an address date which will allow you to move your research on

How to tell if the collection is useful

If you send a query to stating that you are interested in MS 160 and giving the name of the ancestor you believe may be mentioned in this list, then they will respond with whether they are included.

If you plan to email the archivist with a query we suggest that you read our tutorial on how to do this most effectively.

Access arrangements

Reference access to Senate House Library holdings for members of the public costs £5 per day, or £25 for seven days. Access to archival holdings generally requires that you make prior arrangement with the . Details of membership arrangements and opening hours are available on their website.

More Information

The catalogue number for the list is MS 160. A collection level description of this collection is available on AIM25.

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Abstracting information

Usage Themes Geographic area covered Size of collection Dates
  • Family history
  • Genealogical data

UK

About six hundred people are listed.

1825

Glossary

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