Patentees of New Inventions
(1854) Abstracts of British patents for new inventions applied for and granted from 1 January to 31 December 1854: giving date, name and address, and short description of the invention. It is then stated whether 'Letters patent sealed' or 'Provisional protection only'.HOWARD. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Petitioning Creditors and Solicitors
(1854) Principal creditors petitioning to force a bankruptcy (but often close relatives of the bankrupt helping to protect his assets): and solicitors: in England and WalesHOWARD. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Soldiers Wounded in the Battle of Alma: 7th Royal Fusiliers
(1854) The commander of the British forces transmitted to the Secretary-at-War this return of casualties among non-commissioned officers and men sustained at and after the battle of Alma, 20 September 1854. This was the opening battle of the Crimean War, in which British forces seized the heights above the river Alma. The returns include those killed and wounded in the battle; missing; dead of wounds, and since dead, to 3 October 1854.HOWARD. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Trustees and Solicitors
(1854) 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
HOWARD. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankrupts
(1855) Bankruptcy notices for England and Wales: bankruptcy often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost links
HOWARD. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankrupts: Adjournment of Meetings
(1855) Adjournments of meetings of creditors of bankrupts in England and WalesHOWARD. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Boys entering Harrow School
(1855) This First Volume of the Second Series of the Harrow School Register was edited by J. H. Stogdon and published in 1925. The boys are listed by term of entrance, and then alphabetically by surname and christian names (in bold). Next, in brackets and in italics, is the school house to which he belonged - or, H. B. indicating a day boy whose family lived in Harrow. Stogdon then gives the father's surname and initials, and address. In cases where the boy was prominent in sports at school, or won academic prizes, scholarships &c., that is given; then the year of leaving the school; and a synopsis of his career, so far as known.
HOWARD. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Boys entering Rugby School
(1855) This edition of Rugby School Register was published in 1933: the volume covering 1675 to 1857 contains 6480 entries, based on the original school admission registers, but elaborated with general biographical information wherever the editor was able to do so. The entries for the 17th and early 18th centuries are much less detailed than those for later years. The arrangement of the fullest entries was to give the boy's full name (surname first, in bold); whether eldest, second, &c., son; father's name and address as of when the boy entered school; the boy's age at entry and birthday; name of the house (in the school) to which he belonged; then a brief general biography; and date and place of death. HOWARD. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
(1855) 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. July to December 1855.
HOWARD. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
(1855) 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. January to June 1855
HOWARD. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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