Green Blackwall Collection
The items relating to shipbuilding include lists of East India ships, 1715-1803; an account of materials and costs, circa 1740; a record of work performed at the Blackwall Yard in the period 1746-1818; dimensions of ships built, 1803-1860; some business letters, 1874; and various technical notebooks. The shipowning interests of the Green family are represented by an account of voyages of East India Company ships, 1836-1860; and bills of sale for vessels, 1839-1870.
The family and legal papers include a register of title deeds and other papers relating to property in the Poplar and Blackwall area circa 1779-1831; papers relating to the division of the Blackwall Yard, 1837-1843; and copies of wills (or part wills), 1751-1877. There is also a diagram showing the ancestry of the Green, Napier and Perry families.
Two items relate in particular to Henry Green (1808-1876), who became head of the firm of R. & H. Green. These are a navigational instruction workbook, 1824; and the logbook he kept as fifth officer on the East India Company ship VANSITTART, 1825-1826. There are also logbooks kept by the master mariner Charles Fisher Cooke (1814-1919) in the period 1865-1883. Cooke later married Alice Mary Green, the eldest daughter of Henry Green (1838-1900). There is a cartoon of Joseph Fletcher Green (1846-1923), as published in 'Vanity Fair' in 1890, also a photograph of the statue of Richard Green (1803-1863) at Poplar.
The family and legal papers include a register of title deeds and other papers relating to property in the Poplar and Blackwall area circa 1779-1831; papers relating to the division of the Blackwall Yard, 1837-1843; and copies of wills (or part wills), 1751-1877. There is also a diagram showing the ancestry of the Green, Napier and Perry families.
Two items relate in particular to Henry Green (1808-1876), who became head of the firm of R. & H. Green. These are a navigational instruction workbook, 1824; and the logbook he kept as fifth officer on the East India Company ship VANSITTART, 1825-1826. There are also logbooks kept by the master mariner Charles Fisher Cooke (1814-1919) in the period 1865-1883. Cooke later married Alice Mary Green, the eldest daughter of Henry Green (1838-1900). There is a cartoon of Joseph Fletcher Green (1846-1923), as published in 'Vanity Fair' in 1890, also a photograph of the statue of Richard Green (1803-1863) at Poplar.