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Records of the Barkway Excelsior Friendly Society

Catalogue reference: D/EBf

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This record is about the Records of the Barkway Excelsior Friendly Society dating from 1857 - 1958.

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Reference
D/EBf
Title
Records of the Barkway Excelsior Friendly Society
Date
1857 - 1958
Description

The annual financial statements show three separate funds, sick and funeral, management and expenses and "surplus"; it has not been possible completely to arrange the financial documents in this collection in such a way as to correspond with these funds, because the business of more than one fund is often represented in the same volume and because 'state' insurance business is also recorded.

Held by
Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies
Language
English
Creator(s)
<corpname>Barkway Excelsior Friendly Society, Hertfordshire</corpname>
Physical description
44 files
Immediate source of acquisition

deposited in 1959 by the last secretary of the Society

Accession 843

Administrative / biographical background

Introduction

The Barkway Excelsior Friendly Society apparently began life in 1876 as a branch of the Ancient Order of Foresters, becoming independent of the parent society, though retaining some of its organisation and ritual, in 1889, when the Barkway society's rules were first printed.

The society was dissolved in 1957.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/7febd06b-1720-4d60-be7f-6db4507cc002/

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Records of the Barkway Excelsior Friendly Society