Catalogue description R. V. Marriner Limited, business archive

This record is held by Leeds University Library, Special Collections

Details of RV Marriner
Reference: RV Marriner
Title: R. V. Marriner Limited, business archive
Description:

The collections includes ledgers, day books, waste books, accounts, family, estate and business papers

Summary of Contents:

1. Marriner Textile Business Records. 1804-1942.

2. Marriner Miscellaneous Personal and Estate Records. 1750s- 1930s.

3. Lister Family (Frizinghall), Textile Business Records. 1760-1799.

4. Lister Family, Personal and Estate Records. I750S- 1821.

5. John Anderton, Cullingworth (Wilsden Mills), worsted manufacturing records. 1810-1866.

6. Seventy boxes of mixed business and personal papers, Seventeenth to twentieth centuries.
Date: 1630-1979
Held by: Leeds University Library, Special Collections, not available at The National Archives
Other reference: See P Hudson, West Riding wool textile industry, 1975 p362
Language: English
Physical description: manuscript notebooks, manuscript papers, typescript papers, photographs, plans
Administrative / biographical background:

R.V. Marriner Limited, of Greengate Mills, Keighley, were worsted spinners and manufacturers, established ca. 1784 as Watson Blakey Smith and Greenwood, cotton spinners, then later as William Marriner, 1784-1808, B. and W. Marriner, 1808-1888, Marriner Son and Naylor, 1888-1908, and finally R.V. Marriner Limited, 1908. By the late nineteenth century they were concentrating on the production of knitting wools.

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