North Family papers

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 206 MS 798
  • Dates of Creation
      1898-1977
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
      Russian English
  • Physical Description
      1037 ff., manuscript, typescript, printed, photographs, and a negative

Scope and Content

Comprises the Rev. Frank W. North's Russian bank and insurance documents, 1909-1919, Margaret C. North's customs forms, 1920, photographs of St Andrew's vicarage, Moscow, members of the British community in Russia and their repatriation, 1920, North family correspondence and family-history information, including Herbert C. North and Harvey Pitcher, and Russian banknotes and treasury bills, 1898-1918

Administrative / Biographical History

The Reverend Frank North was the chaplain of St Andrew's Anglican Church in Moscow from 1911 to 1920, when he supervised the repatriation to Great Britain of British prisoners of war and remaining members of the British community in Moscow

Access Information

Access is unrestricted

Acquisition Information

The gift of Herbert North, March 1984

Note

Russian, English

Other Finding Aids

A more detailed listing of the contents is available in the Leeds Russian Archive online catalogue http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/lra/index.htm