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Country code |
GB |
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Repository code |
234 |
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Repository |
National Records of Scotland |
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Reference |
BR/FCN |
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Title |
Forth and Clyde Canal |
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Dates |
1767-1909 |
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Access status |
Open |
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Location |
Off site |
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Description |
This undertaking was incorporated as 'The Company of Proprietors of the Forth and Clyde Navigation' under Act of 8 March 1768 (8 George III, c. 65). The constitution of the company was subsequently changed by Act of 12 July 1805 (46 George III, c. 120), in that management was 'to be vested in a governor and seven other persons, to be called "The Governor and Council of the Company of Proprietors of the Forth and Clyde Navigation"'.
Although meetings were held in both London and Edinburgh until 1787, management of the company after 1775 was mainly exercised from Glasgow, and minutes and reports were simultaneously produced in all three places, often duplicating each other in so far as information from one centre was transmitted to the others and copied. The surviving volumes, now amalgamated under the reference BR/FCN/1, thus represent several distinct series of records rather than one cohesive group arranged chronologically.
Minutes of all London Meetings were kept in one volume from 1767 to 1773 (reference BR/FCN/1/91). Thereafter General Meetings from 1774 to 1852 were recorded in one set of volumes BR/FCN/1/30-32, while meetings of the Governor and Committee before 1806 and of the Governor and Council from then to 1852, are contained in another BR/FCN/1/27-29. In 1852, the meetings of the Governor and Council were transferred to Glasgow and their subsequent proceedings are recorded in BR/FCN/1/25-26, and 1/95.
Also in London were kept copies of the Scots Minutes from 1768 to 1775 BR/FCN/1/2 and from 1775 to 1787, on which date the Edinburgh meetings were ended BR/FCN/1/11. Thereafter, reports, accounts and minutes were sent from Glasgow to London and bound there to form a series of annual volumes BR/FCN/1/33-90. Transfers of shares were also recorded in these volumes (eg BR/FCN/1/90, no. 1816 is a disposal by William Gladstone, whose family were long important shareholders).
Minutes produced and kept in Edinburgh are referenced BR/FCN/1/1 (1767-1770): BR/FCN/1/3 (1770-1773); BR/FCN/1/6 (1773-1775); and BR/FCN/1/9 (1785-1787). A parallel series, signed by the Lord Provost where appropriate, runs from 1771 to 1775 BR/FCN/1/4-5. The origin and purpose of BR/FCN/1/10 is uncertain: it contains minutes from all three centres, without signatures, dating from 1775 to 1780.
Minutes kept in Glasgow apparently started in 1775, with two half-filled volumes BR/FCN/1/7-8. A series of minutes of the Committee of Management runs from 1787 onwards BR/FCN/1/12-26.
The undertaking was vested in the Caledonian Railway by Act of 20 July 1867 (30 & 31 Vic. c. 106) which incorporated a Forth and Clyde Navigation Guaranteed Company. This company was, in turn, dissolved on 11 November 1881 by the Caledonian Railway (Guaranteed Annuities Stock No. 2) Act of 8 April 1881, and its stock-holders were made proprietors of the Guaranteed Annuities Stock of the Caledonian Railway.
The Caledonian Railway became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway as from 1 July 1923 under the North Western, Midland and West Scottish Group Amalgamation Scheme, 1923. |
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Level |
Sub-fonds |
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Format |
Text |
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Language |
English |
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