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Officers of the British Army on Foreign Half-Pay (1840)
The New Annual Army List, corrected to 7 February 1840, was published in London by Lieut. H. G. Hart. The section entitled 'Officers on the Retired Full Pay and Half Pay' lists all such officers, by rank from captain down to ensign, with paymasters, adjutants, quarter-masters, medical staff and chaplains. (Officers above the rank of captain were retained in the main list of Field Officers). These lists are annotated with dates of successive ranks, when placed on half-pay, and the name of the regiment, &c., and with symbols indicating the officers present at Trafalgar (T), in the Peninsula or the South of France (P), and Waterloo (W). Names of officers on retired full-pay are given in italics. The list covers not only the regiments of the line, but also the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, Royal Marines, Staff, and Military Departments.
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Officers of the British Army on Foreign Half-Pay
 (1840)
Taxmen in England and Wales (1841)
The Royal Kalendar lists officials of the Custom House in Thames Street, including the collectors and comptrollers at each of the outports (Aberystwyth, Aldborough, Arundel, Barnstaple, Beaumaris, Berwick, Bideford, Blakeney & Clay, Boston, Bridgwater, Bridlington, Bridport, Bristol, Cardiff. Cardigan, Carlisle, Chepstow, Chester, Chichester, Colchester, Cowes, Dartmouth, Deal, Dover, Exeter, Falmouth, Faversham, Fleetwood, Fowey, Gloucester, Goole, Grimsby, Gweek (in Cornwall), Harwich, Hull, Ipswich, Isle of Man, Llanelly, Lancaster, Liverpool, Lyme (Regis), (King's) Lynn, Milford, Maldon, Newcastle (on Tyne), Newhaven, Newport, Padstow, Penzance, Plymouth, Poole, Portsmouth, Ramsgate, Rochester, Rye, St Ives, Scarborough, Scilly, Shoreham, Southampton, Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Southwold, Stockton, Sunderland, Swansea, Truro, Wells, Weymouth, Wisbech, Whitby, Whitehaven, Woodbridge and Yarmouth), the Excise Office in Broad Street, and the Office of Stamps and Taxes in Somerset Place, including assistants, clerks and housekeepers.
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Taxmen in England and Wales
 (1841)
National ArchivesLondon Policemen (1830-1842)
The Metropolitan Police Register of Joiners (MEPO 333/4) lists policemen joining the force through to 31 December 1842 (to warrant number 19892). The register is alphabetical, in so far as the recruits are listed chronologically grouped under first letter of surname. It is evidently a continuation of a similar earlier register, not closed until its alphabetical sections were filled: consequently, there are no entries in this register for the initial letters N, O, Q, U, V, X, Y or Z; and the sections of this register start at different dates - A 18 April 1840 (warrant number 16894); B 11 December 1830 (5570); C 7 September 1830 (4988); D 27 May 1833 (8445); E 15 December 1838 (14476); F 30 March 1832 (7372); G 1 December 1835 (11,184); H 25 April 1832 (7457); I and J 13 February 1837 (12449); K 2 January 1838 (13457); L 3 October 1834 (9905); M 15 November 1832 (7999); P 4 October 1831 (6869); R 4 September 1837 (13021); S 30 March 1835 (10366); T 6 April 1840 (16829); W 30 December 1833 (9096). The register gives Date of Appointment, Name, Number of Warrant, Cause of Removal from Force (resigned, dismissed, promoted or died), and Date of Removal. Although the register was closed for new entrants at the end of 1842, the details of removals were always recorded, some being twenty or more years later. Those recruits not formerly in the police, the army, or some government department, were required to provide (normally) at least two letters of recommendation from persons of standing, and details of these are entered on the facing pages: the names in these are indexed separately - this index refers only to the police constables. Where a recruit was only recently arrived in the metropolis, the names and addresses of the recommenders can be invaluable for tracing where he came from.
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London Policemen
 (1830-1842)
Scottish Bankrupts (1843)
Scotch Sequestrations: bankruptcy often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost links
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Scottish Bankrupts
 (1843)
Trustees and Solicitors (1843)
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
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Trustees and Solicitors
 (1843)
Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions (1844)
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.
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Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
 (1844)
Railway Subscription Contracts (1845)
£21,386,703 6s 4d was promised by about 10,000 subscribers of less than £2,000 per contract to the nearly 200 railway bills deposited in the Private Bill Office during the Session of Parliament for 1845. This alphabetical list gives the full names of the subscribers (surname first), description (i. e., occupation), place of abode, a numerical reference to the title of the railway, the amount subscribed to each, and total. There is a separate key to the titles of the railways.
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Railway Subscription Contracts
 (1845)
The Edinburgh Gazette (1846)
The Edinburgh Gazette is the official publication in which various Scottish legal notices are issued, as well as promotions and casualty lists for the British army as a whole, and brief lists of English bankrupts. The key source for tracing details of Scottish bankruptcies, insolvencies, and dissolutions of business partnerships.
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The Edinburgh Gazette 
 (1846)
Masters of Ships Registered at Perth (1847)
This list of the 86 ships registered at Perth gives each vessel's name; rig (bg=brigantine; br=barque; sc=schooner; sh=ship; sl=sloop; sm=smack; st sh=steamship; st tug=steam tug); surname of the master; year built; tonnage; and the name of the owner or agent.
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Masters of Ships Registered at Perth (1847)
Registered Electors of Kettins, Forfarshire (1847)
This alphabetical list gives full names and addresses.
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Registered Electors of Kettins, Forfarshire (1847)
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