Guide to the Records of P.W. Flower and Company (as filmed by the AJCP)
M1101-M1113
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
Collection Summary
- Creator
- P.W. Flower and Company
- Title
- Records of P.W. Flower and Company (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1836 - 1916
- Collection Number
- M1101-M1113
- Extent
- 101 items
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Australian Joint Copying Project
- Sponsor
- The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) online portal was created with the assistance of the Australian Public Service Modernisation Fund, 2017-2020. The National Library of Australia gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the other foundation AJCP partners, the State Library of New South Wales and The National Archives of the UK, and all other organisations which supported the work of the AJCP, the world's most extensive collaborative copying project, operating from 1948 to 1997.
Introduction
Scope and Contents
General ledgers 1853-1906.
Ledgers 1869-1897.
Journals 1862-1872.
Accounts of shipments, shares registers and other miscellaneous papers.
Business papers 1836-1906 of Philip Flower and records concerning his estate, including schedules of properties and personal estate, Dunedin Gas Company debentures, deeds, correspondence and accounts.
Accounts and other papers 1909-10 concerning estate of George Salting.
Records 1908-1914 of Cunningham Plains Estates.
Deeds of partnerships, will of S.K. Salting, and other miscellaneous papers.
Conditions Governing Access
Available for Access.
Conditions Governing Use
Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the London Metropolitan Archives. For more information contact London Metropolitan Archives Enquiry service [https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/london-metropolitan-archives/visitor-information/Pages/enquiry-service.aspx].
Preferred Citation
Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the London Metropolitan Archives and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.
Items from this collection should include references to the London Metropolitan Archives and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.
Example: Western Australasian Trade Section Minute Book. 22 April 1895- 12 October 1904, London Metropolitan Archives. MS 16512 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-798920226).
Archival History
Filmed at the Guildhall Library as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1979 (AJCP Reels: M1101-M1113). Original microfilm digitised as part of the NLA AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
As the Guildhall Library did not allow selective filming, only those manuscripts relating entirely or substantially to Australia have been filmed.
Existence and Location of Originals
Guildhall Library, London, England.
Currently held at the London Metropolitan Archives, London. For more information see: London Metropolitan Archives (https://search.lma.gov.uk).
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2248193] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Finding-aid Notes
This finding aid is a revised online version of the original finding aid prepared by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP), published by the National Library of Australia in 2018. The original AJCP finding aids were unpublished typescripts or photocopies available from libraries that held copies of the original microfilm.
Dates used in this finding aid refer to the date range of the records selected for filming rather than to the date range of the Series or Files.
Subjects
Australia; Business records; Cunningham Plains Estates; Dunedin Gas Co; Flower, P.W. and Co; Flower, Philip; Mercantile firms; Merchants; Salting, George; Salting, S.K.; Sydney, New South Wales ; Wool and woolgrowing: Australia; Wool merchants
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 171, pp. 62-63.
Biographical / Historical
The wool-buying firm of Marsden & Flower was founded in about 1829 by the Sydney merchant Thomas Marsden (1806-1837) and the English merchant Philip Flower (1809-1872). Following Marsden's death Flower came to Sydney to manage the company. In 1842 he formed a new company, Flower, Salting & Co., with the Danish-born Severin Salting (1805-1865) as his partner and John H. Challis (1806-1880) as the junior partner. Flower returned to England and a counterpart firm, P.W. Flower & Company, was established in London in 1844.Flower, Salting & Company encountered difficulties during the economic depression of the 1840s, but its fortunes prospered in the 1850s when it began to ship gold to England. For many years P.W. Flower & Company was the largest importer of Australian wool in England. Challis sold his interest in Flower, Salting & Company in 1855 and moved to England and he was followed by Salting in 1858. The three men became extremely wealthy. Philip Flower owned wharves and other properties in London and, in particular, develop an extensive estate in Battersea. His son Cyril Flower was created Baron Battersea in 1892. The firm of P.W. Flower & Company was dissolved in 1916.
Item Descriptions
Series (1). Bound Volumes, 1853 - 1916
15 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reels M1101-M1109.
Subseries 1. General Ledgers, 1853 - 1906
3 items
General Ledgers, 1853 - 1863 (File 1)
Includes accounts for: Patrick Mackay, Flower Salting & Co., Flower McLaren & Co., William Orr & Company (Glasgow), John Gould & Company, New South Wales Insurance Company, Robert Tooth (Cranbrook), Sir Charles Nicholson, American Advances (Sydney and Melbourne), Sydney Railway Company, C. Chapman (Sydney), Henry Hayes (Sydney), Hunter River Railway Company, Australasian Sugar Company, Australian Lands Account, Commissioners for Railway (Sydney), London and Colonial Company Ltd., Charles Smith (Sydney), The Trustees of the Australian Museum (Sydney), W. Murray (Hobart Town), Mitchell & Company (Sydney), Alexander M. Donald (Sydney).
General Ledgers, 1863 - 1876 (File 2)
Includes accounts for: C. Smith (Sydney), A. McDonald (Sydney), Trade Expenses, Inward Freight, Major Roberts, Commission, Petty Cash, Insurance, McDonald Smith & Co. (Sydney), Moore & Company (Melbourne), James Blair (Melbourne), London & Colonial Company Limited, Trustees of the Australian Museum (Sydney), Interest, New South Wales Insurance Company.
Many blank pages have been filmed from this ledger.
General Ledgers, 1877 - 1906 (File 3)
Includes accounts entitled: Cash, Bills Receivable, The Anglo Ceylon and General Estates Company Ltd., Bills Payable, Purchases, Charges, Insurance, Wool Venture from Melbourne, Petty Cash, Moore & Co. Melbourne, McDonald Smith & Co. Sydney, Trustees of William Bradley, Union Bank of Australia Ltd., Trustees of the Australian Museum, C. Flower Drawing Account, Arthur Flower, Scottish Australian Investment Stock, J.A. Reddell, Colonial Sugar Refining Company.
Subseries 2. Ledgers, 1869 - 1897
4 items
Ledgers, 1869 - 1873 (File 4)
Includes accounts for: The Trustees of the Australian Museum, James Blair (Melbourne), P.W. Flower & Co., Messrs. Must & Co. (Auckland), John Scott (Rockhampton), Messrs. McDonald Smith & Co. (Sydney), Messrs. Moore & Co. (Melbourne), Messrs. Thomas Must & Co. (Mount Gambier), Messrs. Moore & Co. (Melbourne).
Ledgers, 1873 - 1879 (File 5)
Includes accounts for: Messrs. Samuel MacGregor & Co. (Melbourne), Messrs. Moore & Co. (Melbourne), James Blair (Melbourne), Messrs. Must & Co. (Auckland), Messrs. R. Travis & Co. (Maryborough), Thomas Must & Co. (Mount Gambier), The Trustees of the Australian Museum, Messrs. Hamilton Ross & Co. (Cape Town), Messrs. McDonald Smith & Co. (Sydney), P.W. Flower & Sons, Messrs. Donkin Thompson & Co. (Brisbane), Messrs. Barrett Bros. (Mount Gambier).
Ledgers, 1879 - 1888 (File 6)
Includes accounts for: P.W. Flower & Sons, James Blair (Melbourne), Messrs. George and William S. Salting, Messrs. Hamilton Ross & Co., Messrs. Moore & Co. (Melbourne), Messrs. McDonald Smith & Co. (Sydney), Messrs. Barrett Bros. (Mount Gambier).
Ledgers, 1888 - 1897 (File 7)
Includes accounts for: Charles Smith (Sydney), Messrs. Moore & Co. (Melbourne), Messrs. P.W. Shevill & Co. (Melbourne), Messrs. Barrett Gaillard (Mount Gambier), Wool and skins per Darling Downs, Messrs. Hamilton Ross & Co. (Cape Town), The Executors of William Bradley (Sydney).
Subseries 4. Miscellaneous, 1859 - 1916
6 items
Account of shipments (non-wool), 29 August 1885 - 9 June 1916 (File 11)
Includes accounts entitled: John Elder, Austral, Nuddea, Dorunda, Poseidon, Ravenswood, Beecroft, Melbourne, Lusitania, Waroonga, Darling Downs, Parramatta, Victoria, Oceana, Clan MacGregor, Coromandel, Caledonia.
Mentions sales of kangaroo skins, coffee, rabbit skins, shell, beeswax, possum skins, bones, hide pieces, bark, wheat, Australian wine, horse hair.
Series (3). Papers Of Philip William Flower, 1836 - 1907
35 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reels M1109-M1110.
Mr. Philip Willm. Flower to Mr. John Wickham Flower and his Trustee. Grant of an Annuity of £60 secured by an Assignment in trust as within mentd, 22 November 1836 (File)
(Attested copy of) Deed of settlement, P.W. Flower Esq., and others to J.C. Maclaren Esq. and others regarding a parcel of land in the parish of St. James Sydney, 1 January 1841 - 2 January 1841 (File)
Mrs. Flower and Her Husband and J.C. Maclaren Esqre. and another. Draft Appointment and Decton of Trusts Settlement of £1250 of Rents, 15 November 1843 (File)
Archibald McLachlan Esqre. Beilby Hawthorne and James Monckton Darlot Esqres. and A. McLachlan, Philip W. Flower and S.K. Salting Esqres. Copy Declaration of Trust, with a bundle of papers on the Nintingbool Estate, 25 March 1859 (File)
T.C. Breillat Esqre. to A. McDonald Esqre. Draft conveyance to A. McDonald as Trustee in place of J.C. McLaren deceased of a certain Indenture of Release and Settlement dated January 2nd 1841. On a piece of land in Sydney, 1860 (File)
Appointment by Philip William Flower Esqre. of Alexander McDonald Esqre. to be a Trustee in the place of J.C. McLaren Esqre. deceased of a certain Indenture of Release and Settlement dated January 2nd. 1841. On a piece of land in Sydney, May 1860 (File)
Schedule of securities found in Mr. Flower's possession not included in his firm's books, 14 February 1872 (File)
P.W. Flower Esqre. to J.W. and W. Flower. As to Mr and Mrs. Fred Hankey's conveyance to you of Mrs. Hankey's interest in a freenold estate in Sydney N.S. Wales, 1862 (File)
Messrs. P.W. Flower and Co. to J.W. and W. Flower. In the Commons Pleas. Yourselves v. The London and Colonial Company Limited, 1865 (File)
Messrs. W. and J. Flower and Nussey's charges with reference to the claims of Mr. William Rutledge against Mr. P.W. Flower's estate and the Messrs. Salting, 1872 (File)
Messrs. W. and J. Flower and Nussey's charges with reference to proof of Mr. P.W. Flower's will in England and also in the Australian colonies, 1872 (File)
The Trustees of Mr. P.W. Flower deceased. The Trustees of Mr. S.K. Salting deceased. Messrs. Flower and Flower's charges in relation to obtaining payment of two sums of £148.19.0 each from the Trustees of the will of David Moore deceased your share of proceeds of sale of the Nintingbool Estate, 1902 (File)
Messrs. P.W. Flower and Sons in account with Messrs. Flower and Flower. Re Pearse, 1901 - 1902 (File)
Series (4). Papers Of Severin Kanute Salting, 1909 - 1912
11 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reels M1110-M1111.
The Colonial Sugar Refining Company Ltd., Sydney. Sales of shares of George Salting deceased, 1910 (File)
The Executor of the late George Salting Esq. deceased to Messrs Flower & Flower. Charges for general business transacted for the Executor from the date of the decease of the Testator to 19 September 1910 (File)
Mrs. Salting and the Executor of the late George Salting Esqre. in account with Messrs. Flower and Flower. Charges relating to the Cunningham Plains Estate, 1 January 1909 - 31 December 1909 (File)
Mrs. Salting and the Executor of the late George Salting Esqre. in account with Messrs. Flower and Flower. Charges relating to the Cunningham Plains Estate, 1 January 1910 - 19 September 1910 (File)
Series (5). Cunningham Plains Estate Papers, 29 May 1907 - 1914
11 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reels M1111-M1112.
The (Australian) estate of George Salting deceased. Credit at close of business 31 December 1911 (File)
19 March 1911 - 31 July 1912
31 July 1912 - 3 March 1913
31 March 1912 - 31 March 1914
Flower and Flower. Estate of George Salting deceased (File)
Balance sheet at 12 December 1910. Personal account and income account for the year ending 12 December 1910 and schedules relating thereto.
Price, Waterhouse & Co., London. George Salting deceased. Report and accounts, 31 October 1914 (File)
Cunningham Plains. Realisation &c. - in continuation Land Sales, Conveyances, Transfers &c. Particulars of account of Cape Kent & Gaden, 1 January 1908 - 30 June 1908 (File)
Cunningham Plains: Subdivision-Realisation General Business (In continuation). Sales of remaining farms &c. Particulars of Account of Cape Kent & Gaden, 1 July 1908 - 31 December 1908 (File)
Cunningham Plains. Subdivision - Realisation- General Business. Particulars of account of Cape Kent & Gaden, 29 May 1907 - 31 December 1907 (File)
Series (6). Miscellaneous Loose Papers, 1842 - 1879
20 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reels M1112-M1113.
Articles of co-partnership between Philip William Flower, Severin Kanute Salting, John Henry Challis and Henry Flower Esquires under the respective firms of Flower Salting & Co. in Sydney and P.W. Flower & Co. in London, 1 July 1842 (File)
Sydney Trust Papers, 1842 - 1879 (File)
3 items
Accounts with Flower Salting & Co., and McDonald Smith & Co. 1842-1862 on behalf of Mrs Mary Flower and of her children following her death. Also one account with McDonald Smith & Co. 1878-1879 on behalf of the late P.W. Flower (Item)
Letter. S.K. Salting, Sydney, to P.W. Flower. The execution of partnership deed for the London and Sydney businesses, 3 July 1849 (File)
Deed of partnership between Philip William Flower, Severin Kanute Salting, John Henry Challis, Jno. Cunningham McLaren Esquires, 29 June 1849 (File)
Deed of dissolution of partnership between Philip William Flower, Severin Kanute Salting, Beilby Hawthorne and Alexander McDonald Esquires, 30 September 1862 (File)
Four drafts of the Inland Revenue Residuary Account on the property of the late Severin Kanute Salting, 1865 (File)
Three copies of the Inland Revenue Legacy Receipt for £100 on the estate of Severin Kanute Salting, 16 February 1866 (File)