NRS-17425 | Sydney Railway Company Stock Ledger

Full description

This series is comprised of a single register that provides details of the purchase and sale of company shares. Each individuals name, occupation and residence is detailed at the top of each page along with the title “Analysis of shares”. The register is divided into the following columns: date, transfer folio, particulars, debit, credit, balance, subscribed capital, monetary denomination columns and a total. The name of the person or company to whom shares were sold or bought from is also given.

This series was formerly part of State Rail Archives Series R468 (now NRS 17424) but was separated and registered as NRS 17425.

Custody History
From 1955 until 2000 the State Rail Authority of New South Wales maintained an ‘in house archives’ consisting of the archival records of the Authority, its predecessor agencies and the private railway companies taken over by the government. The date ranges of the records were from 1849 until 2000. When the decision was made to close the ‘State Rail Archives’ the parts of the collection that were required as State archives were transferred to the State Records Authority of NSW. Those record series were incorporated into the State Records series system of archives control and were re-numbered.

This series was formerly part of the State Rail Archives collection. It may have been viewed in the State Rail Archives as series R468 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works