Pledge Book entry for Geo Braithwaite

Scope and Content

Page number: 168

Entry number: 73

Day of the week: Saturday

Address: Lendill (now known as Lendal)

Brought by: unknown

Items deposited: 1 Silver watch Wm Sweep London No 489

Recorded value of items: £0 5s 0d

Administrative / Biographical History

The business was started by George Fettes in Lady Peckitt's Yard c. 1770. He was succeeded by J/ Wood and later by Henry Hardcastle, who extended the business and moved it to a site in Stonegate. Fettes was Sheriff of York in 1802.

Access Information

Open

Material is available subject to the usual terms and conditions of access to Archives and Local History collections.

Custodial History

The volume was deposited in York Reference Library 4 Apr 1949 by Henry Hardcastle, Stonegate, York, successor to the business. It was transferred to the City Archive in 1964.

Bibliography

"The Worm- Eaten Waistcoat" ISBN 0-9544800-0-7