Catalogue description Records of David Basset of Maidenhead, corn dealer

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Details of D/EX 1577
Reference: D/EX 1577
Title: Records of David Basset of Maidenhead, corn dealer
Date: 1871-1880
Held by: Royal Berkshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 9 vols
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Deposited in June 1999 (acc. 6456)
Administrative / biographical background:

David Basset is first recorded as a corn dealer in Maidenhead in 1869, with premises in Bridge Road. He is later recorded at Queen Street Chambers (1887), King Street (1891) and 14 Bell Street (1895-1924). Between 1915 and 1920 the firm was renamed as David Basset & Co Ltd. From the early 1890s onward, the firm was a malster as well as a corn merchant

 

David Basset himself was born in Uxbridge, Middlesex, in c. 1850-1
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