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Record: Private funeral ledgers (FRAS 889)

Title: Private funeral ledgers
Date: 1921-1937
Reference: FRAS 889
Former reference:
Physical description: 4 volumes  
Origination Hugh Harkess

Scope and content:

Private funeral ledgers containing customer accounts. Details recorded include date, name and address of person paying for funeral, name of deceased, amount due and date paid. There is an index to the people who paid for the funerals in the front of each volume.

Additional information:

Entries were posted to these ledgers from the funeral order books (ref: FRAS 887).

System of arrangement: The entries are in chronological order.

Record type: Ledgers

Function: Financial accounting

Records held within this series:

Title: Private funeral ledger No 1
Date: May 1921-September 1925
Reference: FRAS 889/1
Former reference: HF 91/2/1  
Physical description: 1 volume  
Origination Hugh Harkess

Title: Private funeral ledger No 2
Date: September 1925-February 1929
Reference: FRAS 889/2
Former reference: HF 91/2/2  
Physical description: 1 volume  
Origination Hugh Harkess

Title: Private funeral ledger No 3
Date: February 1929-September 1933
Reference: FRAS 889/3
Former reference: HF 91/2/3  
Physical description: 1 volume  
Origination Hugh Harkess

Title: Private funeral ledger No 4
Date: September 1933-June 1937
Reference: FRAS 889/4
Former reference: HF 91/2/4  
Physical description: 1 volume  
Origination Hugh Harkess

Records related to this series:

Title: Funeral order books
Date: 1921-1958
Reference: FRAS 887
Company: Hugh Harkess    
Connection: Entries were posted from these order books to the funeral ledgers.

Title: Correspondence with customers concerning payment of accounts
Date: c 1920s-1939
Reference: FRAS 893
Company: Hugh Harkess    
Connection: This correspondence was found loose inside the funeral ledgers.

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