Traders and professionals in London
(1805)
Holden's Triennial Directory for 1805 to 1807 includes this 'London Alphabet of Businesses, Professions, &c.': coverage is good; about 30,000 individuals are recorded.ESQUILANT. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Traders and professionals in London
(1851)
The Post Office London Directory for 1851 includes this 'Commercial and Professional Directory', recording about 80,000 individuals. ESQUILANT. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Crystal Palace Company Shareholders
(1856)
The management of the Crystal Palace, built for the Great Exhibition of 1851, was restructured by a Deed of Settlement in 1852, and then incorporated as the Crystal Palace Company by royal charter in January 1853. This alphabetical list of shareholders was published in January 1856.ESQUILANT. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Traders and professionals in London
(1856)
The Post Office London Directory for 1856 includes this 'Commercial and Professional Directory', recording over 100,000 individuals. ESQUILANT. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Long-stay Paupers in Workhouses: Clerkenwell
(1861)
This comprehensive return by the Poor Law Board for England and Wales in July 1861 revealed that of the 67,800 paupers aged 16 or over, exclusive of vagrants, then in the Board's workhouses, 14,216 (6,569 men, 7,647 women) had been inmates for a continuous period of five years and upwards. The return lists all these long-stay inmates from each of the 626 workhouses that had been existence for five years and more, giving full name; the amount of time that each had been in the workhouse (years and months); the reason assigned why the pauper in each case was unable to sustain himself or herself; and whether or not the pauper had been brought up in a district or workhouse school (very few had). The commonest reasons given for this long stay in the workhouse were: old age and infirm (3,331); infirm (2,565); idiot (1,565); weak mind (1,026); imbecile (997); and illness (493). ESQUILANT. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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London Joint Stock Bank Shareholders
(1873)
Copy of the return by the London Joint Stock Bank to the Inland Revenue listing the 'persons of whom the Company or partnership consists', pursuant to 7 & 8 Vic. cap. 32: giving full name (surname first), residence and occupation (often not stated).ESQUILANT. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Steam Engine Makers in Woolwich
(1910)
The Steam Engine Makers' Society, a trades union, ended 1910 with 13,401 members in 144 branches. The 86th Annual Report gives a full list of members for each branch, followed by Travelling Expenses subsidised by the branch (with names and dates); Unemployed Expenses (with names and dates); Superannuation, Sick and Funeral Expenses (all with names and dates).ESQUILANT. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Pianists
(1929)
The Calendar of the Trinity College of Music, London, for the year 1929 includes lists of licentiates and associates including these musicians. Surnames and initials are given; but women are distinguished by having their (first) christian name stated. The college provided instruction to nearly 1000 students a year, with examinations of 66,000 candidates a year at 700 local centres throughout the world. ESQUILANT. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Imperial Service Medal
(1950)
The Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood at St James's Palace announced these awards by king George VI of the Imperial Service Medal to members of the Home Civil Service. The names are arranged alphabetically by surname (in capitals) and christian names, with office or rank in the service.ESQUILANT. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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