| Description | Correspondence and notes, and also diaries of Richard Coombes Soutter, 1816-1865.
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Accession reference: TH/10685:
Accounts, diaries, correspondence both business and family. Also family history research relating to Soutter, Johnstone and other families, as follows:
Box 1: account books 1810s-1860s (4 volumes), annual diaries 1857-1860, 1862-1865 (8 volumes)
Box 2: Letters relating to family and business [unsorted], business cards including R C Soutter (late R & R Soutter), 'packing, tarpauling, cotton and linen, coil cloth manufacturer, hessians, bags, sackings etc' of 114/117 Broad Street, Ratcliff.
Also business agreements as follows: Copy deed of indemnity, 12 Dec 1832, Mrs S Moates and Mr R C Soutter to Messrs Lachlan and Masters - upon Mrs Moates transferring her interests in the business to R C, R H and S Soutter; Copy articles of agreement R C Soutter, R H Soutter and Samuel Soutter, 1836; deed of dissolution of copartnership between Mssrs R C, R H and S Soutter, 1839; Peach v Pigou Chancery Court case papers, 1839-1877; papers relating to shipping cargo; family death notices, bills and rate payments Hamlet of Ratcliff; papers of H O Soutter, 1900s.
Box 3:
Johnstone family history notes (Johnstone of Annandale, Scotland) - letters and research papers. Includes letters to Mrs E J Morgan. Covers mainly 1870s-1920s.
Box 4:
Letters relating to family and business [in sub-box, unsorted]
Loose account papers, birth and death certificates to c 1904, promissory notes. Also business receipts receiving goods, 1810s-1860s
Outgoing wetcopy letters of R C Soutter, 1840s-1850s
Box 5:
Letters relating to family and business [in sub-box, unsorted]
Loose letters mainly of Mrs Mary Soutter of 2 Tredegar Square, Bow and Mrs Webster of Teversal, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, 1840s
Peach v Martineau Chancery judgement, 1877, 1 document
Henry O Soutter of 38 Parliament Square, relating to Annandale, 1879
Copy of ship mate's account of the barque 'Graham' Hudsons Bay Company, 1849
School notebook
Note book of Soutter family history and business notes, to 1840s, 1 volume
Notebooks (c4 volumes) and loose parts/pages from notebooks on Johnstone family history in Scotland.
Accession reference: TH/10762:
1: 30 July 1792: Letter. Stewart Souter, Duffhouse, Scotland to his uncle William Souter, Abroath, Scotland. Incomplete letter, remarks on his uncle's formality in a previous letter and gives apologies.
2: 12 July 1817 Letter. Samuel Moates, Dundle, Scotland to his father William Moates, Lower Shadwell. Relates to sailcloth, goods and shipping.
3: 5 February 1831 Letter. G Binnie, Scarborough, Yorkshire to R C Soutter 'at Samuel Moates', 49 Lower Shadwell. Refers to opportunities for 'transport', ships and obtaining a situation in London
4: January 1832: Notices. Hartnell v Moates. Sheriff's Officer, Sheriff of Middlesex to R C Soutter, sailsman, Lower Shadwell. Notice for bail justification and notice of bail being forfeited as no justification was received. 2 documents
5: May 1834: Letter from an individual, postmark Sudbury, Suffolk to Richard Soutter 'case of Moates', Lower Shadwell. Crossed text
6: 15 June 1847: Letter. E Stenchcomb[?], Scotland to Mssrs R and R Soutter, shipowners, 49 Lower Shadwell. Concerns research into the Soutter family history [to prove a lordship] and proposed contacts which will be made
7: July 1851: Report. French Protestant Education, College Francais, Cromwell House, Highgate to Richard Soutter, 16 Tredegar Place, Bow Road. 'Report of Studies and Conduct' for Richard Soutter. [Postage stamp removed, likely by family member who was a collector] |
| AdminHistory | Richard Soutter lived at at 49 Lower Shadwell. Mary later lived at Tredegar Square, 3 Cottage Grove, Mile End Road.
Directories:
1835: Richard Combes Soutter, sail-maker, ship-chandler and tarpaulin manufacturer, 49 Lower Shadwell
1845: Richard and Robert Soutter, sail-makers, 49 Lower Shadwell; Samuel and Company, ship-owners, 44 Lower Shadwell
1857: Richard and Robert Soutter, tarpaulin maker, 49 Lower Shadwell; Christian Moates Soutter, ship-owner, 44 Lower Shadwell
1859: Richard and Robert Soutter not listed; Christian Moates Soutter, ship-owner, 44 Lower Shadwell
During the 1850s Richard Coombes Soutter was of 16 Tredegar Place, Bow and 49 Lower Shadwell, sail and ship chandler. He later moved to 25 Aberdeen Park, Highbury and 114-117 Cock Hill, Ratcliff East. |