Have finaly got round to posting my small collection of cheques LOL GB Belfast Banking Co, Ballymena branch 1893 Cheque (Credit note) £306.8.1 4 shilling duty stamp red Multiple signitures front & back Acceptable at G M Curries & Co London for the New Northen Spinning & Weaving Co Rec Union Bank of London The bank was established in 1808 In 1970, the Belfast Banking Company Limited amalgamated with the Northern Banking Company Limited to form what is now known as Northern Bank Limited R F Patterson & C0 1897 Cheque (Credit note) £245. 8 6 3 shilling duty stamp red Multiple signitures front & back Acceptable at G M Curries & Co London for the New Northen Spinning & Weaving Co Rec London & County Bank Co Ltd Dont know anything about this one S Smith & Co Bankers of Nottingham 1892 Cheque £16.5.0 1d duty stamp red 2 sigs to front Rev blank est. c.1650s, operate independently as Samuel Smith & Co until 1902. when it joined with the other Smith family banks in merging with Union Bank of London Ltd (est. 1839), to form Union of London & Smiths Bank Ltd. Westminster Bank Ltd Hinckley 1926 Cheque £37.5.9 2d duty stamp blue 2 sigs to front 1 sig to rev Rec Barclays Bank Ltd Hinckley the Westminster Bank at the time incorperated a number of smaller banks, these are shown on the cheque London Count Parr's Stuckeys Crompton & Evens Nottingham & Notts Becketts USA Wickersham Banking Co Petaluma, California 1903 Cheque $6 2 sigs to front (1 guardian of a minor) 1 sig to back There is a Infamous murder connected to this banking family http://albionmonitor.com/9608a/sw-mystery.html The family was also involved in the 'Petaluma and Healdsburg Railroad Company' but they coudn't raise enough capital to buy a Loco and the whole venture ended in mutual recriminations between the partners LOL Have a look and let me know what you think
kinda boring as far as checks go lol, not interesting vingettes on these. The history on that one check more then makes up for that though
Ah for me it is more the history of the bank issuing the cheque rather than the look, I am facinated by how many of them merged and were taken over and still exist today in a new form :smile
Cool checke from CA! At the bottom is says a young girls name "a minor" You know it had to be for something she needed! Very cool.. RickieB
It was exactly that which drew my attention to it in the first place, then I decided to reserch the bank itself and found out the interesting bits about the family that owned it I am waiting to hear back from the Northen Bank in Ulster with hopefully some info on the Belfast Banking Co. I know the name so far of one of the four founders but would like to find out about the other three :smile
A bit more info on th e Belfast Banking Company Limited The partnership known as the Belfast Bank commenced business in 1808 and achieved joint stock status in 1827. The partnership originally consisted of David Gordon, Narcissus Batt, John H Houston and Hugh Crawford. The Belfast Banking Company Limited had branches throughout Ireland, with its Head Office in Belfast. On 1 July 1970, it amalgamated with Northern Bank Limited (at that time, both banks were owned by Midland Bank), and the name of the Belfast Banking Company Limited disappeared. The Ballymena branch opened in 1834. This info was very kindly forwarded to me by Mr R W McMurray of the Northern Bank's Legal Department< I have to say it was extreemly kind of him to go to the trouble of digging up this info for me. This means that I can now reserchthe original founding members of the bank
i have found, that for the most part, when i contact foreign banks or policy makers, i have been treated nicely. It makes researching much easier (or in my case, getting the permission i need to post images)
