Masters and Apprentices
(1745) Apprenticeship indentures and clerks' articles were subject to a 6d or 12d per pound stamp duty: the registers of the payments usually give the master's trade, address, and occupation, and the apprentice's father's name and address, as well as details of the date and length of the apprenticeship.RIGNALL. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
(1810) Death notices and obituaries, marriage and birth notices, civil and military promotions, clerical preferments and domestic occurrences, as reported in the Gentleman's Magazine. Mostly from England and Wales, but items from Ireland, Scotland and abroad.
RIGNALL. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankrupts' Estates
(1848) Bankrupts' estates for England and Wales vested in assignees: bankruptcy often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost links
RIGNALL. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Unclaimed Dividends
(1855) The unclaimed dividend books of the Bank of England, containing names and descriptions of over 20,000 persons entitled to many millions of pounds accumulated in the bank unclaimed during the 18th and 19th centuries, mostly in consols and annuities, and transferred to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt.
RIGNALL. Cost: £6.00. | 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. RIGNALL. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Voters for Alconbury
(1857) A poll for the election of two knights of the shire to represent the county of Huntingdon took place 2 April 1857: the candidates were James Rust (1192 votes), Edward Fellowes (1106) and John Moyer Heathcote (1106). This poll book lists those electors who voted, described as 'freeholders', although the county franchise included not only male freeholders of 40s a year, but also £10 copyholders and long-leaseholders, and £50 short-leaseholders and tenants. The names are arranged by parish or township, and the residence of each voter is given. Many of these freeholders did not live in the place from which they acquired the right to vote. The right-hand column indicates how they voted.RIGNALL. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Voters for Earith
(1857) A poll for the election of two knights of the shire to represent the county of Huntingdon took place 2 April 1857: the candidates were James Rust (1192 votes), Edward Fellowes (1106) and John Moyer Heathcote (1106). This poll book lists those electors who voted, described as 'freeholders', although the county franchise included not only male freeholders of 40s a year, but also £10 copyholders and long-leaseholders, and £50 short-leaseholders and tenants. The names are arranged by parish or township, and the residence of each voter is given. Many of these freeholders did not live in the place from which they acquired the right to vote. The right-hand column indicates how they voted.RIGNALL. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Patentees of New Inventions
(1869) Index of patentees and applicants for patents of inventions in 1869: giving full name of patentee (surname first); number of patent (in bold); date (within 1869); and subject-matter. Where the patentee was acting as agent for third parties, their names are given in italics in the subject-matter column.RIGNALL. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Partnerships Dissolved
(1880) Dissolution of trading partnerships, or removal of a partner from a business, in England and Wales, July to September 1880RIGNALL. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Scottish Debtors, Insolvents and Bankrupts
(1880) Protests on Bills of Exchange, Sequestrations and Cessio Bonorums in Scotland, April to June 1880RIGNALL. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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