Freeholders voting in Morpeth ward, Northumberland
(1826)
An election to choose two knights of the shire to represent Northumberland took place at Alnwick from 20 June to 6 July 1826. The candidates were Henry Thomas Liddell (L), Matthew Bell (B), Thomas Wentworth Beaumont (Bt) and Viscount Howick (H). The franchise included all freeholders of property worth 40 shillings or more per annum: each had two votes, but could plump for a single candidate. This poll book was published in 1827 and lists the voters from each ward: the freeholder's full name (surname first), residence, and the nature of the freehold (such as 'house at Corbridge'). The votes are shown in the right hand columns, with plumpers shown by a dagger. Morpeth ward included Morpeth and the surrounding countryside.PROCTER. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankrupts
(1827)
Bankruptcy notices for England and Wales: bankruptcy often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost links
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Trustees and Solicitors
(1827)
Trustees appointed to take over bankrupts' estates, and their solicitors. Trustees are often friends or relatives of the bankrupt: and/or principal creditors
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Dissolutions of Partnerships
(1828)
Trade partnerships dissolved, or the removal of one partner from a partnership of several traders
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Insolvents
(1828)
Insolvency notices for England and Wales: insolvency often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost linksPROCTER. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Mathematics students at Cambridge University
(1828)
Tripos lists or examination results for the year, arranged by class (Wranglers, Senior Optimes and Junior Optimes), and within each class in order of score in the examination (the names of candidates with equal scores are bracketed together, with the word 'AEq.'). Each student's surname and college is given: this list was printed in 1890, and was annotated with asterisks to show which students had subsequently become fellows of the university; and with footnotes showing those who became headmasters, &c., elsewhere. Winners of Dr Smith's Mathematical Prizes are marked (1) senior, (2) for junior. The Greek letter alpha is affixed to the names of those students who had gained first class results in the Classical Tripos; beta to those entered in the second class; and gamma to those entered in the third class. These lists are particularly useful in identifying for an individual the fellow-students who will have attended lectures with him; and, where from the college, are likely to have been even more closely associated by having been under the same supervisor. (The sample scan is from the start of the Mathematics Tripos list for 1770)PROCTER. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Petitioning Creditors and Solicitors
(1828-1829)
Principal creditors petitioning to force a bankruptcy (but often close relatives of the bankrupt helping to protect his assets). Perry's Bankrupt and Insolvent Gazette was printed monthly for subscribers only, and included a section entitled Bankrupts, summarizing notices of bankruptcy proceedings. Volume 4, for 1829, covers bankruptcies gazetted from 2 December 1828 to 24 November 1829. The Gazette provided an index to the names of the principal bankrupts, but we have prepared this index to the names of the principal creditors, together with some stray names and solicitors from the records.
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Bankrupts' Assignees
(1829)
Assignees of bankrupts' estates (usually principal creditors and/or close relatives of the bankrupt)PROCTER. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Boroughholders of Stockton-on-Tees
(1829)
The 1829 second edition of John Brewster's 'Parochial History and Antiquities of Stockton-upon-Tees', county Durham, included this appendix (number vii), a list of the boroughholders (burgesses) of the borough. Full names are given: on occasion, where a boroughholder was lately deceased, the formula 'The heir or devisee of ...' is used.PROCTER. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Civil law students at Cambridge University
(1829)
Examination results for the year, arranged by class (First, Second and Third), and within each class in order of score in the examination (the names of students with equal marks being bracketed together). Each student's surname and college is given: this list was printed in 1890, and was annotated with asterisks to show which students had subsequently become fellows of the university; and with footnotes showing those who became judges, &c. These lists are particularly useful in identifying for an individual the fellow-students who will have attended lectures with him; and, where from the college, are likely to have been even more closely associated by having been under the same supervisor. (The sample scan is from the start of the Mathematics Tripos list for 1770)PROCTER. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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