Mathematics students at Cambridge University
(1843) Tripos lists or examination results for the year, arranged by class (Wranglers, Senior Optimes and Junior Optimes), and within each class in order of score in the examination (the names of candidates with equal scores are bracketed together, with the word 'AEq.'). Each student's surname and college is given: this list was printed in 1890, and was annotated with asterisks to show which students had subsequently become fellows of the university; and with footnotes showing those who became headmasters, &c., elsewhere. Winners of Dr Smith's Mathematical Prizes are marked (1) senior, (2) for junior. The Greek letter alpha is affixed to the names of those students who had gained first class results in the Classical Tripos; beta to those entered in the second class; and gamma to those entered in the third class. These lists are particularly useful in identifying for an individual the fellow-students who will have attended lectures with him; and, where from the college, are likely to have been even more closely associated by having been under the same supervisor. (The sample scan is from the start of the Mathematics Tripos list for 1770)ADAMS. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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New South Wales District of Port Phillip (Victoria) Intestates
(1843) The probate courts of the Australian colonies furnished returns of estates of deceased intestates, giving full name, colonial residence, supposed British or foreign residence of family (often unknown, or left blank), amount of the estate and how much had been disbursed and how. The date of death is often stated, and if by accident, suicide or crime. Names were carried forward from return to return until the estate was expended or exhausted. ADAMS. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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North Tipperary Jurors: Spring Assizes 1843
(1843) 'A List of the Names of all Persons qualified to serve as Jurors in the North Division of the County Tipperary, returned by the Collectors of Jury Cess to the Clerk of the Peace, submitted by him to the Magistrates at Special Session, Spring Assizes 1843.'ADAMS. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Petitioning Creditors and Solicitors
(1843) Principal creditors petitioning to force a bankruptcy (but often close relatives of the bankrupt helping to protect his assets): and solicitorsADAMS. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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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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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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British merchant seamen
(1840-1844) The registry of merchant seamen, including fishermen, sought to identify individuals securely in this series of registers by assigning to each man a unique number, grouped together by surname, and then by christian name, whereas in previous registers names had been jumbled together under the first two letters of the surname. Each man's age and birthplace was recorded, together with any number brought forwards from previous registration, i. e. the number assigned to the man in the registers for 1835 to 1840. Then each voyage is listed, with his status (e. g. S for seaman, M for mate, &c.) on that trip, the identification number of the ship, the date, and then the name of the ship. In the event of it becoming known that a man had died during the course of a voyage, that information is written across the remaining empty columns. This volume (BT 112/1) covers seamen whose surnames start with A or McA.ADAMS. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankruptcy meetings
(1844) Meetings for the allowance of bankrupts' certificates in England and Wales: a final stage before the discharge of a bankruptADAMS. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankruptcy Meetings
(1844) Meetings about bankrupts' estates in England and WalesADAMS. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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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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