| Description | Title deeds, leases and other papers of Caillouel and allied families, 1540-1686.
Notarial instruments, etc, 1586-1685.
Papers concerning export from Rouen to London, 1674-1677.
Correspondence of Isaac Caillouel, senior, in England, 1686-1694.
Isaac Caillouel, junior, as executor of his father.
Business accounts of Isaac Caillouel, junior.
Letters to Isaac Caillouel, junior.
Other papers of Isaac Caillouel, junior. |
| AdminHistory | Isaac Caillouel, senoir, was a merchant in Rouen until he left for London in November 1686, followed shortly by his wife. His family had had a thriving business, including trade in cloth with London, and based first in the Rue du Figuier, and then the Rue St. Etienne des Tonneliers. He brought with him to his new address in Quaker Street, Spitalfields, over six hundred deeds and papers relating in the main to properties owned or leased in Rouen or the neighbourhood. He died in September 1694 leaving a son and a daughter.
Isaac Caillouel, junior, his son, continued his father's business, forming a partnership with his cousins Abraham and Louis Dugard in 1698. There are a number of letters from Gideon Vincent of Rouen who appears to have acted as agent for Caillouel there. A small account book dated 1707 records transactions with the Sword Blade Company, and there is a draft prospectus of a company for improving the cultivation of hemp. |