 Apprentices registered at Gloucester
(1750-1754)
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 father's name and address, as well as details of the date and length of the apprenticeship. There are central registers for collections of the stamp duty in London, as well as returns from collectors in the provinces. These collectors generally received duty just from their own county, but sometimes from further afield. (The sample entry shown on this scan is taken from a Norfolk return)VERINDER. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Apprentices
(1759)
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. 12 April to 31 December 1759.VERINDER. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Apprentices and articled clerks
(1765)
Apprenticeship indentures and clerks' articles were subject to a 6d or 12d per pound stamp duty (late payment of the 6d rate attracted double duty (D D) of 12d): 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. 2 January to 31 December 1765.VERINDER. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Masters of apprentices and clerks
(1793)
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. 2 January to 15 June 1793. IR 1/35VERINDER. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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English and Welsh Court Officers, Justices and Officials
(1805)
Officials and judges of the Courts of Justice in the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark and the county of Middlesex, the High Court of Chancery at Westminster Hall and Lincoln's Inn Hall, the Commissioners of Bankrupts, the Court of King's Bench at Westminster Hall and Guildhall, the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster Hall and Guildhall, the Court of Exchequer at Westminster Hall and Serjeant's Inn, the Marshalsea Court in Southwark, Westminster Court, the First Fruits Office in the Inner Temple, the Tenth Office in the Temple, the Commissioners for taking Affidavits in the Court of Lancaster, justices of the Grand Sessions for the counties in Wales, Sergeants-at-Law and King's Counsel, the Courts of Justice in the city of Westminster and county of Middlesex, the Lord Mayor's Court and the Sheriffs Court and Officers of the City of London are listed in Holden's Triennial Directory of 1805 to 1807.VERINDER. Cost: £8.00. | 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.VERINDER. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Insolvents
(1843)
Insolvency notices for England and Wales: insolvency often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost linksVERINDER. Cost: £6.00. | 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. VERINDER. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Insolvents
(1854)
Insolvency notices for England and Wales: insolvency often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost linksVERINDER. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Unclaimed Dividends
(1855)
The unclaimed dividend books of the Bank of England, containing names and descriptions of over 20,000 persons entitled to many millions of pounds accumulated in the bank unclaimed during the 18th and 19th centuries, mostly in consols and annuities, and transferred to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt.
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