Belsey Surname Ancestry ResultsOur indexes 1000-1999 include entries for the spelling 'belsey'. In the period you have requested, we have the following 88 records (displaying 21 to 30): Single Surname Subscription | | | Buying all 88 results of this search individually would cost £528.00. But you can have free access to all 88 records for a year, to view, to save and print, for £100. Save £428.00. More... |
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(1392-1800)
No man or woman could trade in the city of Canterbury without having obtained 'freedom' of the city, unless they paid an annual fee to do so. Admissions of freemen were recorded on the Chamberlains' Accounts of the city, which were prepared annually from Lady Day (25 March) to Lady Day until 1752, and thereafter each set runs from 1 January to 31 December. The accounts for 1392 are incomplete, but thereafter until 1800 there is a complete series except for the years 1455 to 1457 and the year 1552-3. Joseph Meadows Cowper, Honorary Librarian to the Corporation, produced this extract of the names from 1392 to 1800, and the volume was privately printed in 1903. There are five groups of freemen: those who obtained freedom after serving out an apprenticeship to a freeman; the children of freemen; those who married a freeman's daughter; those who claimed freedom by 'redemption', i. e. by purchase; and those who were honoured by a gift of the freedom from the Mayor and Court of Aldermen. Cowper published his lists divided into the five categories: the sample scan is from the list of those who obtained freedom by marriage. This is the index to all the stray names in the records: the wives and father-in-laws by whom freedom was acquired; the masters of apprentices; and other persons mentioned by the way in the record.BELSEY. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
|  Masters of apprentices and clerks
(1800)
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 name, as well as details of the date and length of the apprenticeship. 2 January to 31 December 1800. IR 1/38BELSEY. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Deaths, Marriages, and Marine Accidents
(1802-1803)
Death notices and obituaries, marriage and birth notices, general news and marine accidents (usually naming the unfortunate captain), as reported in the Monthly Register and Encyclopedian Magazine. Includes some marriages and deaths from Ireland, Scotland and abroad.
BELSEY. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Navy Officials and Clerks
(1805)
Officials of the Admiralty Office at Charing Cross, the Marine Department, the Navy Office at Somerset House, Secretary's Office, Contract Office, Office for Bills of Account, Office for Seamen's Wages, Allotment Office, Surveyor's Office, Office for Examining the Treasurer's Accounts, Ticket Office, Office for Examining Storekeepers' Accounts, Office for Stores and Slops, Deptford, Woolwich, Chatham and Sheerness dockyards, the Navy Pay Office, the Victualling Office in Somerset Place, the High Court of Admiralty at Doctors Commons, and the bona fide Navy Agents, are listed in different sections of Holden's Triennial Directory of 1805 to 1807, and are indexed here.BELSEY. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Bankrupts
(1786-1806)
William Smith's abstracts of bankrupts, dividends and certificates for England and Wales from 1786 to June 1806. Bankruptcy causes abrupt changes in people's lives, and is often the reason for someone appearing suddenly in a different location or in a different occupation.BELSEY. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Deaths, Marriages, Bankrupts, Dividends and Patents
(1824-1825)
Death notices and obituaries, marriage and birth notices, bankrupts and dividends, and patents, as reported in the Monthly Magazine or British Register. Includes some marriages and deaths from Ireland, Scotland and abroad.
BELSEY. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Revenue Coast Guard
(1830-1831)
Appointments 11 August 1830 to 11 August 1831:
1a. Return of all persons appointed to situations in the department of the Excise, and of persons nominated as expectants to receive instructions to qualify them to become officers: giving date of appointment or nomination; name; station; salary and emolument.
1b. Return of all persons re-appointed to situations in the Excise: giving name; station in which dropped; salary and emoluments; when and to what station re-appointed; salary and emoluments. This return is split into England, Scotland and Ireland.
2. Return of the different persons appointed to situations in the departments of the Customs: stating port; office; name of officer; when admitted; and salary and emoluments.
3. This return of men appointed to situations in the Revenue Coast Guard: with date of appointment; name; rank; salary; and emoluments.BELSEY. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
(1835)
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.
BELSEY. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| British merchant seamen
(1835-1836)
At this period, the foreign trade of ships plying to and from the British isles involved about 150,000 men on 15,000 ships; and the coasting trade about a quarter as many more. A large proportion of the seamen on these ships were British subjects, and so liable to be pressed for service in the Royal Navy; but there was no general register by which to identify them, so in 1835 parliament passed a Merchant Seamen's Registration Bill. Under this act this large register of British seamen was compiled, based on ships' crew lists gathered in British and Irish ports, and passed up to the registry in London. Each seaman was assigned a number, and the names were arranged in the register by first two letters of the surname (our sample scan shows one of the pages for 'Sm'); in addition, an attempt was made to separate out namesakes by giving the first instance of a name (a), the second (b), and so on. But no effective method was devised to prevent the same man being registered twice as he appeared in a second crew list; moreover, the original crew lists were clearly difficult for the registry clerks to copy, and some of the surname spellings appear to be corrupted. A parliamentary committee decided that the system devised did not answer the original problem, and this register was abandoned after less than two years: but it is an apparently comprehensive source for British merchant seamen in 1835 to 1836. The register records the number assigned to each man; his name; age; birthplace; quality (master, captain, mate, 2nd mate, mariner, seaman, fisherman, cook, carpenter, boy &c.); and the name and home port of his ship, with the date of the crew list (usually at the end of a voyage). Most of the men recorded were born in the British Isles, but not all (for instance, Charleston and Stockholm appear in the sample scan). The final column 'How disposed of' is rarely used, and indicates those instances where a man died, was discharged, or deserted his ship during the voyage.BELSEY. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Dividends of bankrupts' estates
(1836)
Dividends from moneys raised from bankrupts' estates in England and WalesBELSEY. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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