Catalogue description Cobb of Margate, Family and Business Papers

General note. This vast accumulation of papers was removed from the Brewery when it was decided to demolish that building. The documents had been stored in the attics with consequent damage through damp in some cases. The whole relates to the story of the family from c. 1780 to 1940 and to the various businesses with which they were associated including banking, brewing, shipping agency and insurance.

The records consist mainly of pieces of paper, a very few volumes survive partly because the brewery records are incomplete and partly because Lloyds Bank will have retained much banking material in 1892, when they absorbed Cobb's Bank.

Until an index to persons is completed the value of the catalogue will be diminished, but many of the classes to which it relates are considerable in bulk and this list is consequently little more than a general class list for many parts of the collection.

Nevertheless the records indicate the wide ranging philanthropic interests of the family and their political allegiance as well as providing much on the history of Margate, the dangers of the coast round the North Foreland and the banking, brewing and insurance interests.

In sorting and arranging the papers an attempt has been made to relate correspondence to the various businesses or to an official activity, but this can only be done by reference to the contents of each letter and there is inevitably a considerable overlap in every direction.

EK-U1453/T1-29 Deeds of inns, other properties and trusts, 1577-1908

EK-U1453/F1-26 Family papers, 1740-1944

EK-U1453/C Correspondence [personal and family]

EK-U1453/C1 Francis Cobb, 1727-1802

EK-U1453/C2-286 Francis Cobb, 1759-1831

EK-U1453/C287-305 Charlotte Mary Cobb, d. 1823 (3rd w. of Francis jun.)

EK-U1453/C306-549 Francis William Cobb, 1787-1871 (addn. C609-646)

EK-U1453/C550-608 Thomas F. Cobb, 1797-1882

EK-U1453/C609-646 F.W. Cobb additional, 1787 - 1871

EK-U1453/C647-649 Harriet, Maria and Amelia Cobb, 1835 - 1845

EK-U1453/C650-668 Francis Carr Cobb, 1814-1904

EK-U1453/C669-676 Francis Carr Cobb, 1845-1937

EK-U1453/C677-679 Emily Cobb, d. 1882, 1st w. of F.M.C., 1862 - 1882

EK-U1453/C680-694 Other letters, 1771 - 1939

EK-U1453/E Estate Papers

EK-U1453/E1-13 Testamentary, 1802-1870

EK-U1453/E14-38 Papers concerning inns and houses, 1794-1838

EK-U1453/E39 Sale particulars, 1799-1934

EK-U1453/A1-14 Accounts [personal], 1753-1928

EK-U1453/B1-6 Business Papers

EK-U1453/B1/1-6 Partnerships and transfers, 1841-1949

EK-U1453/B2/1-40 Brewery papers, 1761-1967

EK-U1453/B3/1-24 Cobb's Bank, Margate, 1781-1871

EK-U1453/B4/1-28 Margate Savings Bank, 1818-1868

EK-U1453/B5/1-13 Shipping agency and salvage, 1768-1852

EK-U1453/B6/1-3 Insurance agency, 1770-1927

EK-U1453/O Official papers

EK-U1453/O1-7 Taxation records, 1718-1850

EK-U1453/O8-14 Military and Naval papers, 1770-1835

EK-U1453/O15-34 Cinque Ports Lieutenancy and Admiralty, 1776-1834

EK-U1453/O35-46 Cinque Port Deputy of Margate, 1637, 1782-1857

EK-U1453/O47-52 Correspondence with Dover, Head Port, 1772-1834

EK-U1453/O53-62 Commissioners for Margate Pier and Pavement, 1775-1841

EK-U1453/O63 Borough of Margate, 1858-1880

EK-U1453/O64-72 Parish of St. John and Thanet Union, 1769-1872

EK-U1453/O73-85 Vice Consular papers, 1774-1832

EK-U1453/O86-102 Parliamentary elections, 1789-1857, and miscellanea

EK-U1453/Q1-309 Charity records and papers, 1694-1869

EK-U1453/Z1-146 Miscellanea and printed items, 1657 - 1949

EK-U1453/P1-203 Maps and Plans, 1830 - 1948

Cobb family of Margate, Kent

Deposited by D. Cobb, Esq., May 1969.

• Margate, Kent

Francis Cobb, 1727-1802, was founder of the family fortunes and was followed by his son Francis jun., 1759-1831. Each was deputy-mayor Margate and the younger man took an active part in the Cinque Port defence during the French wars, 1793-1815. Later the affairs of the family centred in three other men: Francis William, 1787-1871 (s. of Francis jun.), his son Francis Carr Cobb, 1814-1904 and grandson Francis Marsden Cobb, 1845-1937.