Genealogy Chat

does anyone know if the Central Bank of London in Whitechapel during the 1880s still exists I did google but not sure what the Bank is called

Not sure if this is the same bank as The Central Bank of London at 52 Cornhill (can't think there were two with the same name??) If it is, then that one was taken over by the Birmingham and Midland Bank in 1891. That bank is now the HSBC (Midland Bank with the yellow griffin if you are old enough to remember!!) Merry

Hi nice to hear from you , do you think they keep records of customers who went bankrupt I was wondering if I could get hold of my great grandfathers records from 1885ish or am I hoping for a miracle

Probably!! From my experience of working in a bank, old ledgers don't tend to survive the ravages of time too well!! I once had to go and find some pre-WW2 records in the bank where I worked. This involved a ladder and a torch and trying to put my phobia about spiders out of my head......forget spiders, when I found the ledger, I opened it and all the pages had been eaten by long-dead maggots!!!!!!!! Ugh! All that was left was the leather covers and a few bits of sawdust-like chewed paper! Do you already have a date for the bankruptcy? Merry

Just a thought - if there was bankrupcy - doesn't this involve some form of court hearings? But don't know which type of court. May also be sometning in a newspaper Anne

thanks for your replies Merry and Anne yes I have the date I have the Times Newspaper the case was in , but I was hoping to see if I could find any other records, I even found some photos of the judge it seems he was a famous bakruptcy judge, and painted many times .I could not believe my luck when I found them by googling his name .

That's nice Valerie - Now you can imaging your rellies looking at him in Court! Merry

he looks very scary he was a Lord too, so probably stuck up, I was really sad for my rellie he was cheated by his own son thats why he ended up bankrupt.

Oh, the hatmaker? Abraham.....Umm Merry

oh of course you were the one that found the info for me werent you ,I cannot thank you enough its been fascinating, and now I have found out he was a freemason so I am trying to find out something about that too.