Catalogue description GEORGE MOODY PAPERS

Papers of the Bancroft and Moody families of Saltfleetby, Skidbrooke, and Cleethorpes

The deposit includes a few items connected with the Bancroft family of Saltfleetby and Skidbrooke - including a dykereeve's account book, 1800-29, for Saltfleetby (ref. 1028/2).

The papers represent the business and civic activities of Walker and George Moody

Moody, Walker, d 1896, of Grimsby

Moody, George, d 1939, of Grimsby

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Papers left by the late David Bancroft Nelson and deposited in June 1995.

Walker Moody was a Grimsby smackowner and, later, pioneer of steam trawling. He died in 1896. His son, George Edward James Moody formed (with George's son-in-law, Henry Kelly) the firm of Moodys and Kelly. They extended their business activities from Grimsby to start fishing from Fleetwood (Lancs). George was a director of the Great Grimsby Coal Salt and Tanning Company, and the Great Grimsby Ice Company, and a founder and chairman of the Grimsby Fishing Vessel Owners' Mutual Insurance Company. A native himself of Cleethorpes he was a Local Board councillor there from 1882 and then a councillor in the new Urban District Council. He was knighted in 1926, Charter Mayor in 1936, and the first honorary freeman of Cleethorpes Borough in 1938. Besides the Grimsby Steam Fishing Company he was also interested in the Crown, Fleetwood, Nocturne and Pioneer Steam Fishing Companies. He died in 1939. A son, George Walker Gotfried Moody, had predeceased him in 1933.

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