Catalogue description Documents concerning the Silk, Smith, Lee, Beshaw and Pearce families, of Bow and Bethnal Green

This record is held by Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives

Details of P/SIL
Reference: P/SIL
Title: Documents concerning the Silk, Smith, Lee, Beshaw and Pearce families, of Bow and Bethnal Green
Description:

This collection consists of baptism and marriage certificates, correspondence and financial material.
Date: 1836-1976
Related material:

See Museum Piece 515 for a silk postcard sent to him in 1914.
Held by: Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives, not available at The National Archives
Former reference in its original department: TH/8290
Language: English
Physical description: 17 Files
Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated by Mrs.Andrea Leila Silk of Bow, widow of Josiah William Silk, 16 March 1983.

 

Accessioned 6 August 1988.
Administrative / biographical background:

Josiah William Silk was born in 1882 at 11, Ellesmere Rd, Bow, later moved to Globe Rd, and died at 47 Vivian Rd, Bow, in January 1966, aged 84.

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