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Record: Funeral cash books (FRAS 856)

Title: Funeral cash books
Date: 1883-1888
Reference: FRAS 856
Former reference: HF 57/3/4/3   HF 93/4  
Physical description: 4 volumes  
Origination Wylie & Lochhead Ltd

Scope and content:

The cash books contain a record of payments received for funerals from customers and cash paid to the tradesmen who supplied the services or goods for the funerals.

Additional information:

Entries from the cash books would have been posted to the funeral trades journals, which do not survive, and the funeral journals, which do not survive for this period.

Record type: Cash books

Function: Financial management

Records held within this series:

Title: Funeral cash book (no 39)
Date: April 1883-June 1884
Reference: FRAS 856/1
Former reference: HF 57/3/4/3/1   HF 93/4/1  
Physical description: 1 volume  
Origination Wylie & Lochhead Ltd

Title: Funeral cash book (no 40)
Date: June 1884-September 1885
Reference: FRAS 856/2
Former reference: HF 57/3/4/3/2   HF 93/4/2  
Physical description: 1 volume  
Origination Wylie & Lochhead Ltd

Title: Funeral cash book (no 41)
Date: September 1885-February 1887
Reference: FRAS 856/3
Former reference: HF 57/3/4/3/3   HF 93/4/3  
Physical description: 1 volume  
Origination Wylie & Lochhead Ltd

Title: Funeral cash book (no 42)
Date: February 1887-June 1888
Reference: FRAS 856/4
Former reference: HF 57/3/4/3/4   HF 93/4/4  
Physical description: 1 volume  
Origination Wylie & Lochhead Ltd

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