Records of Lancaster Duncan & Co, Calico Merchants and Printers, City of Glasgow, Scotland

• Sederunt Books 1830-1839;
• Minutes 1830-1831;
• Legal Papers 1827-1835;
• Inventories 1830-1832;
• Roup 1832;
• Accounting Books 1830-1831;
• Financial Papers 1829-1846.

Lancaster, Duncan & Co was founded in 1826  in Glasgow, Scotland, by Thomas Lancaster, Archibald Duncan, and James Duncan. Their union was an amalgamation of the Glasgow companies Lancaster & Co and Archibald Duncan & Co. The Lancaster & Co part of the business dealt primarily with the dyeing and printing of fabric, while Archibald Duncan & Co was responsible for weaving. The firm operated as power-loom weavers, dyers, printers and merchants, and traded in calico with India, South America and Australia. They had a factory at Anderston, Glasgow, and a print works at Dalmarnock, Glasgow. The company was sequestrated in 1830 , and it is from this period the vast majority of surviving records come from, although some financial records continued to be created until 1851  concerning the company's creditors and the firm's Trustee, Henry Brock.

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These papers were drawn together by Henry Brock, factor to the trustees of the sequestrated estate of the company.

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GB 0234, CS46/1830/4/35, Act and order and decreet of adjudication, Henry Brock v Lancaster Duncan and Co, and others, 1830; GB 0234, CS96/912/1, Lancaster, Duncan and Company, merchants, Glasgow Archibald Duncan, and Company, merchants, Glasgow. Sederunt books; GB 0234, CS96/912/2, Lancaster, Duncan and Company, merchants, Glasgow Archibald Duncan, and Company, merchants, Glasgow. Sederunt books, 1830-1831.

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Fonds level description and lower level descriptions compiled by Emma Anthony, Assistant Archivist, 31 January 2012. Finding aid created by Emma Anthony, Assistant Archivist, 31 January 2012. Catalogue edited by Michelle Kaye, Archives Assistant, 18 July 2012.