Masters of Merchantmen with Pilotage Certificates for Holyhead
(1857) The Mercantile Navy List and Annual Appendage to the Commercial Code of Signals for All Nations, edited by J. H. Brown, was published By Authority in 1857. It includes this list of Pilotage Certificates granted to masters of vessels by the local pilotage authorities of Ayr, Beaumaris, Belfast, Bristol, Carlisle, Cowes, Dublin, Falmouth, Fleetwood, Goole, Holyhead, Hull, London, Londonderry, Lowestoft, Milford, Newcastle, Newhaven, Padstow, Plymouth, Poole, Southampton, Weymouth and Yarmouth. In each case, apart from stating the certificate fees and the limits within which the certificate held, the master's full name, the name of his vessel, and the port to which it belonged are set out. The sample scan is from the main list of masters and pilots.TAYLOR. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Merchant Seamen, Masters and Mates, Obituary
(1857) The Mercantile Navy List and Annual Appendage to the Commercial Code of Signals for All Nations, edited by J. H. Brown, was published By Authority in 1857. It includes this Obituary of masters and mates dying or lost at sea in the previous year: with full name (surname first) and date and place of death. The sample scan is from the main list of masters and pilots.TAYLOR. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Owners of Merchantmen with Pilotage Certificates
(1857) The Mercantile Navy List and Annual Appendage to the Commercial Code of Signals for All Nations, edited by J. H. Brown, was published By Authority in 1857. It includes this list of Pilotage Certificates of Service. It gives masters of passenger-carrying vessels licensed by the Board of Trade to act as pilots themselves in certain stretches of water. The table gives the full name of the master; draft of water of the vessel; owner; and the limits to which his pilotage certificate extends. The sample scan is from the main list of masters and pilots.TAYLOR. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Patentees of New Inventions
(1857) Abstracts of British patents for new inventions applied for and granted from 1 January to 31 December 1857: giving date, name and address, and short description of the invention. It is then stated whether 'Letters patent sealed' or 'Provisional protection only'.TAYLOR. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Petitioning Creditors and Solicitors
(1857) Principal creditors petitioning to force a bankruptcy (but often close relatives of the bankrupt helping to protect his assets): and solicitorsTAYLOR. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Scottish Bankrupts
(1857) Scotch Sequestrations: bankruptcy often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost links
TAYLOR. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Scottish Partnerships Dissolved and Bankruptcy Proceedings
(1857) Dissolutions of business partnerships, and proceedings in bankruptcy in ScotlandTAYLOR. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Steamship Shipwright Surveyors
(1857) The Mercantile Navy List and Annual Appendage to the Commercial Code of Signals for All Nations, edited by J. H. Brown, was published By Authority in 1857. It includes this List of Surveyors of Steam Vessels appointed by the Board of Trade, port by port, describing the limits of their districts, and naming for each port the shipwright surveyors and their engineers. The sample scan is from the main list of masters and pilots.TAYLOR. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Voters for Buckden
(1857) A poll for the election of two knights of the shire to represent the county of Huntingdon took place 2 April 1857: the candidates were James Rust (1192 votes), Edward Fellowes (1106) and John Moyer Heathcote (1106). This poll book lists those electors who voted, described as 'freeholders', although the county franchise included not only male freeholders of 40s a year, but also £10 copyholders and long-leaseholders, and £50 short-leaseholders and tenants. The names are arranged by parish or township, and the residence of each voter is given. Many of these freeholders did not live in the place from which they acquired the right to vote. The right-hand column indicates how they voted.TAYLOR. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Voters for Ramsey
(1857) A poll for the election of two knights of the shire to represent the county of Huntingdon took place 2 April 1857: the candidates were James Rust (1192 votes), Edward Fellowes (1106) and John Moyer Heathcote (1106). This poll book lists those electors who voted, described as 'freeholders', although the county franchise included not only male freeholders of 40s a year, but also £10 copyholders and long-leaseholders, and £50 short-leaseholders and tenants. The names are arranged by parish or township, and the residence of each voter is given. Many of these freeholders did not live in the place from which they acquired the right to vote. The right-hand column indicates how they voted.TAYLOR. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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