NRS-21181 | Index to Register of Friendly, Building and Benefit Societies

This is a self-indexing manuscript volume. Its arrangement is generally under the category of society (e.g. Benefit, Building, Friendly, and by generic organisations (e.g. Buffaloes, Daughters of Temperance, Grand United Order of Oddfellows, Druids etc.) It records the name of the lodge or branch if applicable. Folio refers to the number to the folio in the Register of Friendly, Building and Benefit Societies. Record refers to the document number of inward correspondence. Also included are the subject matter and annotations (e.g. Amalgamated, Dead, Closed, Defunct, Dissolved, name changes, rules, trustees matters); ‘dead’ societies are crossed through. The information was in large part transcribed into the Register of Friendly, Building and Benefit Societies, however, some details were not transferred (e.g. Brasch’s Employees Benefit Society is not in the index section of the Register).