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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