CHRISTOPHER MÜLLER, COMMISSION AGENT

These records show details of the fur trade and its extent. Other records unconnected with Christopher Müller's business relate to other members of the Müller (now Miller) family.

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<p>Other family papers are also deposited at the London Borough of Brent Local History Library, The Grange Musuem, Neasden Lane, London NW10 1QB.</p>

These records were deposited in the Greater London Record Office, 40 Northampton Road, London EC1R 0HB

Christopher Müller arrived in England from Wertheim in Germany, via Paris, in or before 1886. He started work in March 1886 in London as a book-keeper and correspondent with the British Woollen Warehouse Corporation, and in 1895 moved to Kuetgens Bros, woollen merchants in a similar capacity. He left that situation in 1898. It is not clear what he was doing between 1898 and 1912 but his tax returns indicate that he was living in London. In May 1912 he started a business as a Commission Agent, dealing chiefly in furs and pelts, and trading with France, Germany, Sweden, Denmark and Russia. He died in 1915. The business seems to have been carried on for a short while by his son Fritz (Frederick) Müller, a publisher, but finally ceased about 1921.