Catalogue description ARCHIVE OF VIDLER AND COMPANY OF RYE ESTATE AGENTS, SURVEYORS AND VALUERS
This record is held by East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO)
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Title: | ARCHIVE OF VIDLER AND COMPANY OF RYE ESTATE AGENTS, SURVEYORS AND VALUERS |
Date: | 1706-1972 |
Held by: | East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO), not available at The National Archives |
Language: | English |
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Physical description: | About 70 series |
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Records deposited 16 Sep 1966 (ACC 768), 2 Aug 1980 (ACC 2600), 3 Jul 1990 (ACC 5529) |
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The firm had been established in Rye by c1826 by John Vidler (1789-1854), a port officer, auctioneer and merchant. He was Mayor of Rye in 1839, 1845 and 1850, and a JP from 1845 until his death in 1854. He was in partnership with a Mr Reeve from 1826 to 1843 and then with his second son until 1854 John Vidler had married in 1816 Mary Ann (1791-1855) the daughter of John Amon. Their second son, James Coleman Vidler (1825-1898), joined his father's auctioneering business in c1852 On the death of John Vidler in 1854 the firm continued trading as James C Vidler, Auctioneer and Land Agent until 1878 when he was joined by his son Ernest James Vidler (1858-1933) and George Frederick Clements. They traded as Messrs James C Vidler, Son and Clements James C Vidler was Mayor of Rye in 1881 and 1886, and a JP from 1884 to 1896. On his death in 1896 the firm became known as Messrs Vidler and Clements George Frederick Clements died in 1904 and in 1907 Ernest J Vidler disposed of the auctioneering part of his business to Messrs Reeve, Finn and Company, who continued to trade as Messrs Vidler and Company. Ernest J Vidler continued to act as a tenant right and general valuer, and estate agent until his retirement in 1920, when the business was acquired by Vidler and Company The firm during its activities incorporated two formerly independent companies - Messrs Reeve and Finn of Lydd in Kent and Messrs Howse and Company of Beckley. The firm had offices in Rye, Lydd and Hastings, and business at Rye and Ore cattle markets The Company was acquired by Prudential Property Services during the course of the 1980s Vidlers, in common with many other firms of valuers, used an alphabetical code for numerical values in compiling tenant right valuations. The phrase 'golden mark' was used, whereby G had a value of one, O a value of two and so on to K which has a value of zero Company records VID/1/1 Partnership agreements; 1882 VID/1/2 Partners' call books; 1959-1972 VID/1/3 Dissolution of the partnership; 1907 Administrative records VID/2/1 Valuations, unnumbered series; 1834-1890 VID/2/2 Valuation books, main series; 1853-1961 VID/2/3 Survey and valuation books; 1880-1924 VID/2/4 Valuation reports; 1920-1950 VID/2/5 Lists and indexes; 1873-1950 VID/2/6 Timber valuations; 1866-1950 VID/2/7 Inherited records: copies of documents; 1708-1813 VID/2/8 Auction books, early series; 1826-1837 VID/2/9 Auction books, main series; 1912-1957 VID/2/10 Auction books, second series; 1924-1932 VID/2/11 Auction books, real property and wood sales; 1948-1968 VID/2/12 Inherited records: Reeve and Finn, valuation books; 1879-1977 VID/2/13 Inherited records: Howse and Company, valuation books; 1918-1965 VID/2/14 Inherited records: Reeve and Finn, early valuation books; 1882-1891 VID/2/15 Inherited records: Reeve and Finn, unnumbered series of valuation books; 1920-1969 VID/2/16 Inherited records: Reeve and Finn, indexes; 1901 - 1921 VID/2/17 Inherited records: Reeve and Finn, early auction books; 1883-1890 VID/2/18 Inherited records: Reeve and Finn, auction books; 1889-1966 Financial records VID/3/1 Clients' account ledgers; 1877-1957 VID/3/2 Auctions, markets and sales ledgers; 1909-1955 VID/3/3 Clients' rent ledgers; 1870-1904 VID/3/4 Clients' rent ledgers; 1888-1905 VID/3/5 Clients' rent ledgers; 1885-1905 VID/3/6 Clients' rent ledgers; 1953-1970 VID/3/7 Auctions, markets, sales and rent ledger; 1924-1946 VID/3/8 Expenses ledgers; 1925-1950 Agency records VID/4/1 County Fire Office agent's account books; 1918-1949 VID/4/2 Sun Fire Office printed material; 1910 Vidler and Company: clients' records VID/5/1 Burra family; 1882-1955 VID/5/2 Henry Curteis Burra of The Chapel House, Rye; 1914-1954 VID/5/3 Richard Curteis Pomfret of The Hooks, Playden; 1914-1960 VID/5/4 Edward Barrett Hodges Curteis; 1880-1946 VID/5/5 Denise Harriott Burra; 1918-1945 VID/5/6 Mrs Frances Curteis; 1880-1922 VID/5/7 Major Edward Barrett Curteis of Leasam, Rye; 1854-1888 VID/5/8 General Reginald Laurence Herbert Curteis; 1865-1967 VID/5/9 Anne Mary Curteis; [1766]-1925 VID/5/10 Curteis family; [1799]-1920 VID/5/11 Rye Cattle Market Company Limited; 1911-1937 VID/5/12 Rye Farmers Club; 1908-1915 VID/5/13 Howard Warburton Elphinstone, Bt of St Leonards; 1851-1935 VID/5/14 Katherine Elizabeth Richardson; 1919-1952 VID/5/15 Charles James Bannister of Salcote Place, Playden; 1905-1940 VID/5/16 Nathaniel Lloyd of Great Dixter, Northiam; 1910-1939 VID/5/17 Executors of Captain Charles Edward Pennefather of Hays, Beckley; 1888-1969 VID/5/18 Harold Wilfred Armine Freese-Pennefather; 1906-1935 VID/5/19 Mrs H C C Kenrick; 1875-1932 VID/5/20 Trustees of Lieutenant Edward Peter Blake Frewen of Brickwall, Northiam; 1845-1972 VID/5/21 Victor A G A Warrender, Lord Bruntisfield of Leasam, Rye; 1900-1948 VID/5/22 William Allen Jowitt, KC of Budds Farm, Wittersham, Kent; 1920-1936 VID/5/23 Trustees of John Pankhurst of Holmans Farm, Stone, Kent; 1869-1947 VID/5/24 Executors of John Paine of the Fleur de Lis, Brenzett, Kent; 1913-1946 VID/5/25 C L Laurence-Pix of Woodside, Peasmarsh; 1900-1920 VID/5/26 Winchelsea Beach Estate; 1922-1934 VID/5/27 Ilythia Theodula Phipson of St Anthony of Pardua, Rye; 1938-1941 VID/5/28 Messrs Shipman and King of The Old Picture Palace, Rye; 1944-1948 VID/5/29 Muriel Gwendoline Marsden of The Railway Hotel, Rye; 1941-1946 VID/5/30 C P Aiken Trust, Jeake's House, Rye; 1944-1947 VID/5/31 Parish of Playden; 1844-1940 VID/5/32 Parish of East Guldeford; 1839-1940 VID/5/33 Parish of Northiam; 1875-1940 VID/5/34 Parish of Rye; 1840-1940 VID/5/35 Parish of Winchelsea; 1842-1945 VID/5/36 Mary Marshall of Rye; 1716-1923 VID/5/37 Rother and Jury's Gut Catchment Board; 1930 VID/5/38 Mrs S E Springate of Hawkhurst, Kent; 1879-1907 Other records VID/6/1 Vidler and Howse: sale particulers; 1864-1965 Inherited records: Howse and Company, clients records VID/7/1 Parish of Beckley; 1841-1936 VID/7/2 Thomas Gibson; 1706-1865 VID/7/3 Parish of Northiam; 1852-1921 VID/7/4 G D Bishopp; 1882 VID/7/5 Augustus Langham Christie of Glyndebourne; 1916 VID/7/6 Colonel Geoffrey William Liddell of Peasemarsh Place, Peasemarsh; 1866-1930 VID/7/7 Parish of Peasmarsh; 1889 VID/7/8 Parish of Broomhill; 1924 |
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