Charitable Funds Administered by HM Customs and Excise: Unregistered Files

Charitable Funds Administered by HM Customs and Excise: Unregistered Files

These series contains records relating to various charitable funds that were either administered by HM Customs and Excise and its predecessors or benefited the families of former Customs officers.

Including:

• William Marsh Charity.
• Customs and Excise, Orphans, Widows and War Memorial Fund; the records for this charity date from the mid-nineteenth century and reflect its day-to-day running.
• A small number of papers relating to a various charitable activities; for instance, donations made during the First World War to the Red Cross and the setting up of a charity in honour of Customs men who died in 1934.

The records fall into two categories: those pertaining to the William Marsh Charity and those that record other charitable works administered by HM Customs and Excise. The records in each group have been presented in chronological order, with those recording the William Marsh Charity presented first.

• Board of Customs and Excise, 1909-2005
• William Marsh Charity, 1713-1996

From 2022 HM Revenue and Customs

Topics

Charities

Taxation

Conflict

Children

Operations, battles and campaigns

The William Marsh Charity was named after its benefactor, an eighteenth century Customs Officer who bequeathed money to set up a charity for the benefit of orphans and widows of former Customs officers. In the mid-1990s Customs and Excise decided to merge the William Marsh Charity with the Customs and Excise, Orphans, Widows and War Memorial Fund.

The records were administered by the Family Fund.