Catalogue description Post Office: Accounts

This record is held by The Postal Museum

Search within or browse this series to find specific records of interest.

Date range

Details of POST 9
Reference: POST 9
Title: Post Office: Accounts
Description:

This series comprises a wide variety of 18th, 19th and some 20th century account books and schedules relating to Post Office business.

A number of items in this series will be useful to researchers of 19th century family history. The series contains names of mail conveyance contractors, names of postmasters, names of postmasters and their date of appointment and names of officers working in the Post Office in London. The volumes, however, do not contain name indexes.

Please see The Postal Museum's online catalogue for descriptions of individual records within this series.

Note: Catalogue entries below series level were removed from Discovery, The National Archives' online catalogue, in November 2016 because fuller descriptions were available in The Postal Museum's online catalogue.
Date: 1715-1948
Arrangement:

All pieces are one volume unless otherwise stated.

The records are arranged in chronological order within sub-series.

Separated material:

Some items transferred with new number and description to POST 11

Held by: The Postal Museum, not available at The National Archives
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 189 files and volumes
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure

Have you found an error with this catalogue description?

Help with your research