Insolvents
(1839) Insolvency notices for England and Wales: insolvency often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost linksBODEN. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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British merchant seamen
(1835-1840) 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 a 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. A parliamentary committee decided that the system devised did not answer the original problem, and the original register was abandoned after less than two years: the system was then restarted in this form, with a systematic attempt to attribute the seamen's (ticket) numbers, and to record successive voyages. The register records the number assigned to each man; his name; age; birthplace; quality (S = seaman, &c.); and the name and official number 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. The system was still very cumbersome, because the names were amassed merely under the first two letters of surname; an attempt was made to separate out namesakes by giving the first instance of a name (a), the second (b), and so on. During 1840 this series of ledgers was abandoned, and a new set started with names grouped together by surname. BT 112/7BODEN. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankrupts
(1840) Bankruptcy notices for England and Wales: bankruptcy often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost links
BODEN. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Dissolutions of Partnerships
(1840) Trade partnerships dissolved, or the removal of one partner from a partnership of several traders, in England and Wales
BODEN. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Insolvents
(1840) Insolvency notices for England and Wales: insolvency often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost linksBODEN. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Trustees and Solicitors
(1840) Trustees appointed to take over bankrupts' estates in England and Wales, and their solicitors. Trustees are often friends or relatives of the bankrupt: and/or principal creditors
BODEN. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankrupts
(1841) Bankruptcy notices for England and Wales: bankruptcy often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost links
BODEN. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Dissolutions of Partnerships
(1841) Trade partnerships dissolved, or the removal of one partner from a partnership of several traders, in England and Wales
BODEN. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Insolvents
(1841) Insolvency notices for England and Wales: insolvency often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost linksBODEN. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Walsall Electors: Bridge Ward
(1841) 'A Correct Copy of the Poll taken at the late Election of a Member of Parliament, for the Borough of Walsall, in the County of Stafford, on Tuesday, the 2nd of February, 1841. Arranged so as to shew The Names of the several Polling Districts into which the Borough was divided; the Vote given by every person who did vote; and distinguishing those who did not vote. Candidates. John Neilson Gladstone, Esq. John Benjamin Smith, Esq.' The four polling districts were: 1 The Foreign Ward (exclusive of Bloxwich and neighbourhood; 2 Bloxwich and neighbourhood; 3 St George's Ward; 4 The Bridge Ward. The names are arranged by initial letter of surname, surname first, with nature of qualification (such as House; Warehouse; House and Land), where the qualifying property was situate; and whether a vote was cast for Gladstone or Smith.BODEN. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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