Records of Messrs Wm Evans & Co. Ltd

Records of Messrs Wm Evans and Co., 1852-1978, including minutes, 1880-1946; financial records, 1879-1978; agreements, 1879-1921; registers of members and directors, 1880-1941; share certificates and related records, 1880-1969; Memoranda and Articles of Association, 1879, 1920; deeds, being securities for debts to the company, relating to properties in Monmouthshire, Glamorgan and Brecknockshire, 1852-1925; insurance policies, 1881-1936; agency agreements, 1893-1925; guarantees to pay debts to William Evans or Wm Evans & Co., 1866-1925; papers relating to investments in other companies, 1893-1900.

Messrs Wm Evans & Co. Ltd of Newport, Cardiff and Swansea were wholesale grocers. The company was founded by William Evans, a provisions merchant of Newport, Monmouthshire, and was incorporated in 1879. The company went into liquidation in 1920 but was subsequently reconstituted.

Arranged into the following: company administration; deeds; insurances; agency agreements; guarantees; investments in other companies; [miscellaneous].

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Deposited by Mr R. Hatton Evans, Newport per Newport Museum, 1980.

The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Gwent Record Office, Catalogue of the records of Messrs Wm Evans & Co. Ltd, Wholesale Grocers, of Newport, Cardiff and Swansea.

Hard copies of the catalogue are available at Gwent Record Office, the National Library of Wales and the National Register of Archives.

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