• Title
  Walter Carter Funerals records
• Creator
  Walter Carter Funerals
• Call number
  MLMSS 12003/Box 1
  MLMSS 12003/Boxes 2X-17X
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1887-1959
• Type of material
  Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  9675697
• Physical Description
  4.57 metres of textual material (1 box and 16 outsize boxes), includes photographs
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Established in 1887, Walter Carter Funerals is one of Sydney’s oldest independent and family-owned funeral businesses which is still in operation today. English-born Walter Carter (1852-1934), a cabinet maker by trade, arrived in Australia in 1883 and established his own funeral company in 1887. He was also the Mayor of Waverley from 1902-1903.
  
  References:
  Library acquisition file
• Scope and Content
  BOX 1
  Folder 1
  Funeral Fund Office membership book, 1979-2007; various documents relating to funerals such as receipts, invoices, cheques, Forms of Information of Death, approx. 1900s-1950s
  Folder 2
  Photograph of Eliza & Walter Carter; photograph of Walter Carter; newspaper clipping on cover of ledger regarding laws and burial locations
  
  BOX 2X
  Funeral register, 1887-1895
  
  BOX 3X
  Funeral register, 1896-1912
  
  BOX 4X
  Funeral register, 1913-1922
  
  BOX 5X
  Funeral register, 1930-1934
  
  BOX 6X
  Funeral register with index, 1934-1940
  
  BOX 7X
  Funeral Register with index, 1940-1945
  
  BOX 8X
  Funeral Register with index, 1945-1950
  
  BOX 9X
  Funeral register with index, 1953-1959
  
  BOX 10X
  Funeral register index, 1887-1934
  
  BOX 11X
  Funeral register index, 1934-1951
  
  BOX 12X
  Ledger, 1916-1922
  
  BOX 13X
  Ledger, 1921-1934
  
  BOX 14X
  Ledger, 1934-1940
  
  BOX 15X
  Ledger, 1934-1945
  
  BOX 16X
  Accounts for funerals; miscellaneous notes; with index, 1942-1953
  
  BOX 17X
  Hand-painted illuminated address presented to Walter Carter while he was Mayor of the Borough of Waverley in 1903. The address features watercolour illustrations of scenery and native flowers and is signed by his fellow aldermen.
• Language
  English
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright restrictions may apply:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
• Subject
  Funeral homes
  Undertakers and undertaking--New South Wales--Sydney.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE21118319

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