Family History Quest

MSEsupporter13

Does any member have knowledge of the 1900's history of the Chartered Insurance Institute and/or the Essex & Suffolk Equitable Insurance Society which was based in Ipswich and Colchester please? This is a long shot and I appreciate that this question might be falling on stoney ground but if I don't ask I'll never know.

If I get any positive response/s, I elaborate further :-)

Heather

maclean2

Hi - suggest you contact Chartered Insurance Institute in Aldermanbury in the City of London.

Essex and Suffolk were part of Royal Exchange by the late 70's and later via mergers with Guardian and others were subsumed into AXA.

HTH

MSEsupporter13

Hello HTH, I've done a heap of research and traced the web of take-overs :-(
One contact told me that all the Guardian archive material went to AXA - all I got from AXA was "don't know what you mean, we deal with insurance"! :-( A reply to that has, as yet yielded nothing. A lot of other companies did respond quickly but they had to be eliminated from my enquiry. I am, actually, waiting for feedback from the CII - I am getting good contacts from them, as my enquiry is passed from one person to another .... I keep my fingers crossed :-)

I was just hoping that someone out there might be an expert and know, instantly, the answer to my query. It always pays to ask, I find :-)

Many thanks anyway, for taking the trouble to help me - it's appreciated.
Heather

MSEsupporter13

P.S. A late relative of my husband was supposed to have become the Company Secretary of the Essex and Suffolk. I was trying to get to the bottom of a formal photograph we have of him. He stands wearing a medal around his neck and my father-in-law says it was something to do with him being a President (for a year?) for some insurance body of people/or something??? When you are as ignorant as I am on these matters, it's like looking for a needle in a haystack :-( Heather

maclean2

Hi - you are probably talking about the local Institutes which the CII has in major towns such as Ipswich where the local President is normally in office fie a year.The CII in Londonshould be able to put you in touch with their local committee in Ipswich who at minimum will have records of their presidents year by year.