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London Metropolitan Archives

BRITISH FACTORY AT LISBON


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/036

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: BRITISH FACTORY AT LISBON

Date(s): 1721-1814

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 6 production units.

Name of creator(s): British Factory | Lisbon

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

A 'factory' in this context is an establishment for traders carrying on business in a foreign country or a merchant company's trading station. A chaplaincy attached to the Factory was established in the mid 17th century, with the first chaplain being appointed in 1654.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Registers of baptisms, marriages and burials for the British Factory at Lisbon, 1721-1807.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Registers arranged in chronological order.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the depositor.

Finding aids:

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

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES 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.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Baptism registers | Parish records | Documents | Information sources
British | National identity | Cultural nationalism | Cultural identity
Burial registers | Parish records | Documents | Information sources
Church records and registers | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Foreign traders | Business people | People by occupation | People
Marriage registers | Parish records | Documents | Information sources
Burial records
Legal documents

Personal names

Corporate names
British Factory | Lisbon | Portugal

Places
Lisbon | Portugal | Western Europe | Europe