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Reference Number705:73 BA14450/173/8
Hierarchy Browser Number350/5/1/1/40
TitleHousehold account book
DescriptionBound volume detailing the amounts expended on household items, including provisions of food and drinks, fuel, occasional repair work and labouring, servants wages and expenses, board wages, payments for travel and turnpike charges, clothing and personal items, tradesmen's bills, donations given and other related expenses incurred by the Coventry family.
At the back of the volume entries are given detailing the names of servants and the wages they were paid, namely: John Brasher; Ann Bromage; Susan Breme; Elizabeth Barnes; Jane Moor; Sarah Page; Elizabeth Quintin; [J?] Grierson, gardener; Susan Page, under laundry maid and Sarah Hoare.
Volume appears to relate largely to the Coventry family's property Coventry Hall, Streatham [London].
Volume includes 14 loose sheets, being additional accounts, bills and other related items, including: 'The Annual Report of the Committee of the Streatham Schools Society, 1821' (705:73 BA14450/173/8-i). These additional items are now kept in a separate file (705:73 BA14450/173/8 a-n)
DateJan 1811-Apr 1824
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