Record:
Private funeral ledgers (FRAS 890)
Title: Private funeral ledgers
Date: 1921-1946
Reference: FRAS
890
Former reference:
Physical description: 4 volumes
Origination:
William 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 888). The page number of the corresponding entry in the order books is recorded next to each entry in the ledgers.
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-October 1926
Reference: FRAS 890/1
Former reference: HF 91/2/5
Physical description: 1 volume
Origination:
William Harkess
Title: Private funeral ledger No 2
Date: October
1926-June 1935
Reference: FRAS 890/2
Former reference: HF 91/2/6
Physical description: 1 volume
Origination:
William Harkess
Title: Private funeral ledger No 3
Date: June 1935-May
1943
Reference: FRAS 890/3
Former reference: HF 91/2/7
Physical description: 1 volume
Origination:
William Harkess
Title: Private funeral ledger No 4
Date: May 1943-July
1946
Reference: FRAS 890/4
Former reference: HF 91/2/8
Physical description: 1 volume
Origination:
William Harkess
Records related to this series:
Title: Funeral order books
Date: 1934-1946
Reference: FRAS 888
Company:
William Harkess
Connection: Entries were posted from the order books to the funeral ledgers.
Title: Correspondence with customers concerning payment of accounts
Date: 1921-1945
Reference: FRAS 894
Company:
William Harkess
Connection: This correspondence was found loose inside the funeral ledgers.
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