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Record: Funeral insolvent ledgers (FRAS 250)

Title: Funeral insolvent ledgers
Date: 1888-1913
Reference: FRAS 250
Former reference: HF 57/3/4/1/1   HF 93/5  
Physical description: 2 volumes  
Origination:  Wylie & Lochhead Ltd

Scope and content:

Ledger of outstanding funeral accounts. There is an index to names at the back of each volume.

Additional information:

At the end of each calendar year, the details of all outstanding funeral accounts were extracted from the journals (ref: FRAS 252) and posted to these ledgers. Next to each entry in the insolvent ledgers is a reference (comprising volume and page number) to the corresponding entry in the journals.

System of arrangement: The entries within the ledgers are in chronological order.

Record type: Ledgers

Function: Financial management

Records held within this series:

Title: Funeral insolvent ledger
Date: 1888-1908
Reference: FRAS 250/1
Former reference: HF 57/3/4/1/1/1   HF 93/5/1  
Physical description: 1 volume  
Origination:  Wylie & Lochhead Ltd

Records linked to this file:

Title: Funeral journal
Date: 1898-1903
Reference: FRAS 252/1
Company: Wylie & Lochhead Ltd    
Connection: At the end of each calendar year, the details of all outstanding funeral accounts were extracted from this journal and posted to the insolvent ledger.

Title: Funeral journal
Date: 1902-1908
Reference: FRAS 252/2
Company: Wylie & Lochhead Ltd    
Connection: At the end of each calendar year, the details of all outstanding funeral accounts were extracted from this journal and posted to the insolvent ledger.

Title: Funeral journal
Date: 1907-1908
Reference: FRAS 252/3
Company: Wylie & Lochhead Ltd    
Connection: At the end of each calendar year, the details of all outstanding funeral accounts were extracted from this journal and posted to the insolvent ledger.

Title: Funeral insolvent ledger
Date: 1909-1913
Reference: FRAS 250/2
Former reference: HF 57/3/4/1/1/2   HF 93/5/2  
Physical description: 1 volume  
Origination:  Wylie & Lochhead Ltd

Two lists of funeral bad debts were found loose inside this ledger.

Records linked to this file:

Title: Funeral journal
Date: 1909-1911
Reference: FRAS 252/3
Company: Wylie & Lochhead Ltd    
Connection: At the end of each calendar year, the details of all outstanding funeral accounts were extracted from this journal and posted to the insolvent ledger.

Title: Funeral journal
Date: 1911-1913
Reference: FRAS 252/4
Company: Wylie & Lochhead Ltd    
Connection: At the end of each calendar year, the details of all outstanding funeral accounts were extracted from this journal and posted to the insolvent ledger.

Title: Lists of funeral bad debts
Date: February 1955
Reference: FRAS 858
Company: Wylie & Lochhead Ltd    
Connection: The lists of bad debts were found loose inside the insolvent ledger.

Records related to this series:

Title: Funeral journals
Date: 1898-1913
Reference: FRAS 252
Company: Wylie & Lochhead Ltd    
Connection: At the end of each calendar year, the details of all outstanding funeral accounts were extracted from these journals and posted to the insolvent ledgers.

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