Add this eBook to your basket to receive access to all 628 records. Our indexes include entries for the spelling bamford. In the period you have requested, we have the following 628 records (displaying 281 to 290): These sample scans are from the original record. You will get scans of the full pages or articles where the surname you searched for has been found. Your web browser may prevent the sample windows from opening; in this case please change your browser settings to allow pop-up windows from this site. Trustees and Solicitors
(1835)
Trustees appointed to take over bankrupts' estates, and their solicitors. Trustees are often friends or relatives of the bankrupt: and/or principal creditors
| 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. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Bankruptcy information
(1836)
Abstract of the circumstances causing a bankruptcy in England and Wales: assets, liabilities &c. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Bankrupts' Assignees
(1836)
Assignees of bankrupts' estates (usually principal creditors and/or close relatives of the bankrupt) in England and Wales | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
(1836)
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.
| Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
(1836)
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.
| Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Dissolutions of Partnerships
(1836)
Trade partnerships dissolved, or the removal of one partner from a partnership of several traders, in England and Wales
| Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Insolvents
(1836)
Insolvency notices for England and Wales: insolvency often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost links | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Runaway Convicts Apprehended (1836)
The Principal Superintendent of Convicts' Office of New South Wales issued weekly lists of runaways apprehended during the previous seven days. These lists state the convict's full name (surname first), the transport by which brought to Australia, and from whom or from where absconded. March 1836
| Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Bankruptcy information
(1837)
Abstract of the circumstances causing a bankruptcy: assets, liabilities &c. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
|
Research your ancestry, family history, genealogy and one-name study by direct access to original records and archives indexed by surname.
|
