Masters of clerks and apprentices
(1786) 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. 10 February to 31 December 1786. IR 1/33PHILLPOT. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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London nobility and gentry
(1791) The Universal British Directory includes a list of the nobility, gentry, &c. in London and Westminster: esquires, i. e., gentlemen without titles, are sometimes listed without their christian names.PHILLPOT. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Inhabitants of Canterbury in Kent
(1790-1797) The provincial sections of the Universal British Directory include lists of gentry and traders from each town and the surrounding countryside, with names of local surgeons, lawyers, postmasters, carriers, &c. (the sample scan here is from the section for Bath). The directory started publication in 1791, but was not completed for some years, and the provincial lists, sent in by local agents, can date back as early as 1790 and as late as 1797.
PHILLPOT. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Hertfordshire Sessions
(1752-1799) Incidents from the Hertfordshire Sessions Books and Minute Books. These cover a wide range of criminal and civil business for the county: numerically, the most cases (362) concerned assaults and rioting, and larceny (378), but there is a large variety of other matter, as extensive as the jurisdiction of the courts. These highly condensed abstracts of the entries were prepared by William le Hardy, and published for the County Council in 1935. PHILLPOT. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
(1804) 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.
PHILLPOT. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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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.PHILLPOT. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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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 linksPHILLPOT. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Inhabitants of Birmingham
(1850) Francis White & Co.'s History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Warwickshire for 1850 lists nobility, gentry, clergy, other private residents, farmers and traders, hundred by hundred and village by village, with separate sections for the large towns. This long alphabetical section lists inhabitants of Birmingham.PHILLPOT. 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. PHILLPOT. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Insolvents
(1855) Insolvency notices for England and Wales: insolvency often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost linksPHILLPOT. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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