Medway Council Heritage Services catalogues
  • Title
    COMMONPLACE BOOK OF WILLIAM PINN, SENIOR, AND WILLIAM PINN, JUNIOR, OF CHATHAM
  • Reference
    DE284
  • Date
    1803-c.1833, 1995
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Creator
  • Extent
    1 volume and 3 pages
  • Administrative history / biography
    William Pinn, senior, and his son, William Pinn, junior, were both tailors of Chatham. Both also served in the Royal Marines. Pinn, senior, was also a licensed victualler of the Horn public house in Chatham High Street. For more details see the introduction to the paper list of the volume's contents held at Medway Archives Centre.
  • Archival history
    Transferred from Chatham Central Library (Reference Section), 1993. Provenance prior to Chatham Borough Council Public Libraries (pre-1974) not recorded but possibly obtained from Stoneham's Public Library Services Limited, 144 Shaftsbury Avenue, London, or another more local source.