Records
on Spiers held in the British Library archives
Compiled by Ron Spiers - May 2006
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deposit libraries in the UK.
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There are many records on Spiers held on
the A2A database hosted by The National Archives in London. The web site is www.a2a.org.uk
The Sun Fire Office has records of
properties which it insured against fire and their records are useful in
finding out which person owned the property. It is often where he/she lived or
carried on business.
A search for the name Spiers produced 241
catalogues, each catalogue having from 15 hits to 1 hit. Examples of a few
follow –
Slatter Son and More, solicitors,
Stratford on Avon
Catalogue Ref. DR 469
Garfield, John
File [no title] - ref. DR 469/162
- date: 3 Oct 1822
Assignment by John Garfield,
Stratford-upon-Avon, blacksmith and Sarah Garfield his wife to Thomas Tasker, Stratford-upon-Avon,
gent. and Timothy Smith the younger, merchant, as trustees of one tenth share
under the will (11 March 1818) of William Spiers, Haselor, gent., grandfather
of the said Sarah (née Spiers), in trust to repay pay charges incurred by the Overseers
and Churchwardens of Stratford-upon-Avon by the desertion of his wife and 4
children by John Garfield (since apprehended) and to invest residue and pay
interest for benefit of Sarah Garfield and children free from control of John.
Scott, Stanley Lord Roberts
File [no title] - ref. DR 469/381
- date: 21 November 1947
Transfer of mortgage of a legal charge (6
Nov 1937) originally by Stanley Lord Roberts to Elizabeth Spiers Fisher and now
by Slatter & Son as legal representatives of Elizabeth Spiers Fisher,
deceased, to Kathleen Nora Slatter, wife of Henry John Brandis Slatter, with
reassignment to Scott, 9 August 1950.
Spiers, John 557
File - Indenture - ref. M3/9/557
- date: 12 June 1845
William Greenhalgh, thirteen, apprenticed
to John Spiers, 24, Ducie Street, Cheetham, boot and shoe maker - (Cheetham is
part of Manchester)
Records of Sun Fire Office, 1710-1891
Exchange House Fire Office, 1708-1710
File - Policy register - ref. MS 11936/478 - date: 1818-1820
item:
[no title] - ref. MS
11936/478/944986 - date: 2 September
1818
Insured: William Spiers, 13 Church Lane,
Whitechapel, London, coffin maker