Cordes (Dos Works) Ltd MSS

This material is held atGwent Archives / Archifau Gwent

Reference
- GB 218 D169, D372
Dates of Creation
- 1835-1957 (mainly 1835-1908)
Name of Creator
- J. J. Cordes & Co. Ltd
  Cordes (Dos Works) Ltd
Language of Material
- English
Physical Description
- To be supplied

Scope and Content

Records of Cordes (Dos Works) Ltd, 1835-1957, including deeds and related documents, 1835-1900, relating to properties in Newport, Malpas, and Bassaleg, Monmouthshire; business records, 1840-1908, including minutes, 1883-1899, management agreements, 1840-1853, and papers relating to the liquidation of J. J. Cordes & Co., 1903-1904; naturalisation papers of J. J. Cordes, 1844-1853; correspondence, 1847-1853, 1952-1956.

Administrative / Biographical History

J. J. Cordes & Co. Ltd was a firm of nail manufacturers based in Newport, Monmouthshire, founded by James Jamieson Cordes (b. [1798]). Cordes was of French and American descent, becoming a naturalized British citizen in 1853. He opened the Dos Works in Newport in about 1835, so named because it was the second works he established. J. J. Cordes & Co. Ltd went into liquidation in 1903. Its assets were taken over by Cordes (Dos) Works Ltd and the Dos Works remained open until 1961.

Arrangement

D169 arranged into the following: administration; management and development; property; general; personal and private; D372 arranged broadly chronologically.

Access Information

No restrictions

Acquisition Information

D372 deposited by Messrs Pennington & Son, 64 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2, 1962.

Note

Compiled by Rhys Jones for the ANW project. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Gwent Record Office, List of documents deposited in the Monmouthshire Record Office, Newport, by Messrs Cordes (Dos Works) Ltd (D169); Gwent Record Office, Deeds relating to Cordes (Dos) Works, Newport (D372), catalogue; Monmouthshire Record Office, Guide to the Monmouthshire Record Office (Monmouthshire Record Office, 1959); Davis, Haydn, The History of the Borough of Newport: from swamp to super-town (Newport, 1998); National Register of Archives (www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra), viewed 6 January 2006.