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Registry of Friendly Societies: Rules and Amendments etc of Building Societies Removed...

Catalogue reference: FS 6

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FS 6

Rules and amendments to rules and occasional statutory documents (but not including annual returns) of Building Societies certified under the Building Societies Act 1836, and incorporated under the Building Societies Act 1874, which were removed...

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Reference

FS 6

Title
Registry of Friendly Societies: Rules and Amendments etc of Building Societies Removed from the Register before 1 January 1913
Date

1832-1912

Description

Rules and amendments to rules and occasional statutory documents (but not including annual returns) of Building Societies certified under the Building Societies Act 1836, and incorporated under the Building Societies Act 1874, which were removed from the Register before 1913.

Arrangement
Arrangement

The files are arranged alphabetically by county, the English counties being followed by the Welsh counties.

When ordering a piece from this series the full reference, e.g. FS 6/113/598LANC, must be given.

Related material

For later files see FS 13

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Physical description

230 box(es)

Subjects
Topics
Mutual societies
Friendly societies
Selection and destruction information

The files of all societies situated in the twenty-three (alphabetically arranged) counties, Bedfordshire to Middlesex, inclusive, have been preserved; but for the remaining twenty-four counties (Norfolk to Yorkshire and Welsh counties) only the files of societies certified before 2 November 1874, or incorporated after that date but before 1876, or incorporated during the years 1885, 1895 and 1905, have been selected for preservation.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8416/

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