Meal Surname Ancestry ResultsOur indexes 1000-1999 include entries for the spelling 'meal'. In the period you have requested, we have the following 27 records (displaying 11 to 20): Single Surname Subscription | | Buying all 27 results of this search individually would cost £172.00. But you can have free access to all 27 records for a year, to view, to save and print, for £100. Save £72.00. More... |
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(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.MEAL. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Insolvents
(1837) Insolvency notices for England and Wales: insolvency often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost linksMEAL. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Dissolutions of Partnerships
(1839) Trade partnerships dissolved, or the removal of one partner from a partnership of several traders, in England and Wales
MEAL. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Scottish Bankrupts
(1845) Perry's Bankrupt and Insolvent Gazette, issued monthly, included lists of sequestrations of Scottish bankrupts' estates. The initial entry gives the name of the bankrupt (surname first, in capitals), trade and address; the dates and place of the stages of the sequestration process, and the date by which claims against the estate were to be lodged. This is the index to the names of the bankrupts, from the issues from January to December 1845.MEAL. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Inhabitants of Huddersfield, Yorkshire
(1853) William White's directory lists traders, farmers and private residents in the area. MEAL. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| 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.
MEAL. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Scottish Abstainers
(1865) Lists of members of the Scottish Temperance League, branch by branch; donations and subscriptions; officers of abstinence societies; and ministers connected with the league. Mostly Scotland, but including England, Ireland and the colonies.
MEAL. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Elementary Teachers in Halifax
(1880) The National Union of Elementary Teachers, established in 1870, brought together members of the profession throughout England and Wales, organized in local Teachers' Associations. Lists of members of the associations were printed in the annual reports. Each association's officers are listed first, then the ordinary members. Surnames are given, Mr/Mrs/Miss, initial(s), and the name of the school - B. S., British School; Bd. S., Board School; Congl. S., Congregational School; End. S., Endowed School; Gr. S., Grammar School; N. S., National School; Par. S., Parochial School; Pres. S., Presbyterian School; R. C. S., Roman Catholic School; Undl. S., Undenominational School; W. S., Wesleyan School.MEAL. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Debtors
(1886) County Court Judgments in England and Wales. October to December 1886MEAL. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Partnerships Dissolved
(1886) Dissolution of trading partnerships, or removal of a partner from a business, in England and Wales: July to September 1886MEAL. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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