Catalogue description R & H Jefferson, wine and spirits merchants, of 27 Lowther street, Whitehaven

This record is held by Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Whitehaven

Details of YDB 18
Reference: YDB 18
Title: R & H Jefferson, wine and spirits merchants, of 27 Lowther street, Whitehaven
Description:

Ledgers day Books, Journals, cash books invoice files, Balance Books, diaries, Sales Books, invoice Books, stock Books sundries Books, cash Books, financial volumes etc.

Date: 1754-1988
Related material:

For further information see local studies file 'Jefferson family', Jeffersons of Whitehaven' by B Clark (56JEF) and From Cumberland to Cape Horn by D Hollett (29HOL).

Held by: Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Whitehaven, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

R H Jefferson, Whitehaven, wine and spirits merchants

Physical description: 40 Series
Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited by Miss E Jefferson, co-proprietrix, whitehaven; 10 August 1978; and YDB 18/62-70 in June 1998 (W168)

Administrative / biographical background:

Founded in 1785 (Kelly's Directory, 1938) the firm, which had remained in the same family ownership, closed for business on Saturday 27 June 1998.

 

R & H Jefferson's is recorded in trade directories as follows:

 

1811 Jefferson & Son, merchants and spirit dealers, Lowther Street

 

1829 Robert and Henry Jefferson, wine and spirit merchants and importers, 27 Lowther Street

 

1847 Robert and Henry Jefferson, wine and spirit merchants and importers, 26 Lowther Street

 

1858 Robert and Henry Jefferson, West India merchants, wholesale wine and spirit merchants, and shipowners, 29 Lowther Street

 

1869 Robert and Henry Jefferson, wine and spirit merchants and importers, 29 Lowther street

 

1884-1954 Robert and Henry Jefferson, wine and spirit merchants and importers, 27 Lowther street

 

The pre-1814 records were lost in a fire. The records deposited date from 1814-1959. A quantity of material relating to the business and to the estates in Antigua was sold into private hands by the Jefferson family in 1994.

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