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(1839)
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
(1839)
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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|  British merchant seamen
(1835-1840)
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 a 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. A parliamentary committee decided that the system devised did not answer the original problem, and the original register was abandoned after less than two years: the system was then restarted in this form, with a systematic attempt to attribute the seamen's (ticket) numbers, and to record successive voyages. The register records the number assigned to each man; his name; age; birthplace; quality (S = seaman, &c.); and the name and official number 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. The system was still very cumbersome, because the names were amassed merely under the first two letters of surname; an attempt was made to separate out namesakes by giving the first instance of a name (a), the second (b), and so on. During 1840 this series of ledgers was abandoned, and a new set started with names grouped together by surname. BT 112/8 | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Officers of the British Army
(1840)
The New Annual Army List, corrected to 7 February 1840, was published in London by Lieut. H. G. Hart. It lists all serving officers, first of all a list of General and Field Officers by rank from field marshal down to major; and then by regiment, including all ranks down to ensign, with paymasters, adjutants, quarter-masters, surgeons and assistant-surgeons. These lists are all annotated with dates of rank in the army and regiment, and with symbols indicating the officers present at Trafalgar (T), in the Peninsula or the South of France (P), and Waterloo (W). A superscript p indicates that the commission was purchased; an asterisk that it was temporary. The regiments and units are listed in order of precedence: Head Quarters staff; Life Guards; Horse Guards; 7 regiments of Dragoon Guards; 17 regiments of Dragoons; 98 regiments of Foot; the Rifle Brigade; two West India regiments of Foot; Ceylon Rifles; Royal African Colonial Corps; Cape Mounted Rifles; Royal Newfoundland Veterans; Royal Malta Fencibles; Recruiting Staff; Royal Artillery; Royal Engineers; Royal Marines; Commissariat; and the Medical Department. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Bankruptcy Meetings
(1841)
Meetings about bankrupts' estates in England and Wales | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Churchmen and church officers in England and Wales
(1841)
The Royal Kalendar has an extensive ecclesiastical section, giving the names of officials at the College of Doctors of (church) Law, the Ecclesiastical Courts, and the ecclesiastical law proctors; deans, chancellors, archdeacons, canons and prebendaries for all the dioceses of England and Wales; the officers and fellows (being all the parish priests within and without the walls of London) of Sion College; and the incumbents of the parishes within ten miles of London (annotated to show whether rectors, vicars or curates, and with the net annual revenue of each cure); the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England; the Committee of Council on Education; and then the officers of the various religious societies (Queen Anne's Bounty Office, and First-Fruits and Tenths Offices; Commissioners for Building Additional Churches; Society for Promoting the Building of Churches and Chapels; Anniversary Festival of the Sons of the Clergy; Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts; Dissenters' Library; Society for Maintaining and Educating Poor Orphans of Clergymen of the Established Church; Society for Promoting Religious Knowledge; Patrons of the Anniversary of the Charity Schools; Naval and Military Bible Society; Society for the Support and Encouragement of Sunday Schools throughout the British Dominions; Society for Extending the Christian Faith in the British West India Islands; London Missionary Society; Religious Tract Society; Society for the Suppression of Vice; British and Foreign Bible Society; Church Missionary Society; Prayer Book and Homily Society; Dr Bray's Institution; London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews; National Society for the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church; Church Pastoral Aid Society; European Missionary Society; British Society for Promoting the Religious Principles of the Reformation; and the Protestant Association). | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| English intelligentsia
(1841)
The Royal Kalendar lists patrons, governors and officers of a number of English literary and scientific institutions, all based in London: the Mathematical Society; British Museum; National Gallery of Pictures; Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce; Royal Academy of Arts; the Highland Society of London; the Linnean Society; Horticultural Society of London; Royal Asiatic Society; Geological Society; Royal Astronomical Society; Royal Medico-Botanical Society of London; Zoological Society; Royal Institution; British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts; London Institution; Russell Institution; London Mechanics' Institution; City of London Literary and Scientific Institution; Marylebone Literary and Scientific Institution; Royal Society of Literature; Royal Academy of Music; Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge; Royal Geographical Society; Statistical Society of London; Camden Society for the Publication of Early Historical and Literary Remains; Atheneaum, Pall Mall; United Service Institution; Royal Botanic Society of London; the Royal Institute of British Architects; and the Institution of Civil Engineers. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Insolvents
(1841)
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
| Officers and officials of English hospitals
(1841)
The Royal Kalendar lists patrons, governors, officers and staff of the hospitals and infirmaries in and near London: Saint Bartholomew's; the Bridewell and Bethlem; St Thomas's; Emanuel; Asylum for Poor French Protestants; Westminster Hospital; Guy's; Bancroft's Hospital; St George's; the Foundling Hospital; the London Hospital; the Hospital for Casual Smallpox and Vaccination; Lock Hospital; Middlesex Hospital; the British Lying-in Hospital for Married Women; the City of London Lying-in Hospital; St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics; Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital; the Asylum for French Orphans; the General Lying-in Hospital; the Jews Hospital; Seamen's Hospital Society; Magdalen Hospital; London Fever Hospital; Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital; Royal Sea Bathing Infirmary (at Westbrook near Margate); Royal Infirmary for Diseases of the Eye; Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital; Infirmary for Asthma, Consumption and other Diseases of the Lungs; Charing Cross Hospital and Medical College; the Royal Metropolitan Hospital for Children; the Royal Maternity Charity for delivering Poor Married Women at their own Habitations; the General Dispensary for Relief of the Poor; Westminster General Dispensary; London Dispensary; Finsbury Dispensary; the Eastern Dispensary; the Public Dispensary; Marylebone General Dispensary; Queen Adelaide and British Ladies Lying-in Institution; the City Dispensary; the Western Dispensary; Surrey Dispensary; Tower Hamlets Dispensary; Bloomsbury Dispensary; the National Truss Society; the Rupture Society for the Supply of Trusses to the Indigent Poor; the City of London Truss Society; the National Vaccine Establishment; the Charitable Fund and Dispensary for Relieving the Sick Poor at their own Habitations with Medicines and Pecuniary Aid; the Northern Dispensary; the Royal Infirmary for Children; the Royal Dispensary for the Diseases of the Ear, and the Deaf and Dumb; the Royal Jennerian and London Vaccine Institution for the Extermination of Smallpox, for Gratuitous Vaccination, and Keeping up a Genuine Ichor; and St George's and St James's Dispensary. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Passengers Arriving at Mobile, Alabama (1841)
The custom house at Mobile, Alabama, issued daily reports of the arrivals and clearing of merchantmen. The lists give the type and name of vessel, surname of master, whence arrived or whither departed, and the name of the shipper. Most of the trade was with American ports and Britain. The passenger lists printed in the Alabama Commercial Register and Patriot are generally restricted to surnames, with the occasional initial, christian name or title (Mr, Dr, Capt, Judge &c)
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