 Masters of Apprentices registered in Somerset
(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)BELLETT. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Clerks and apprentices
(1779)
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 31 December 1779. IR 1/30BELLETT. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Convicts sent to New South Wales
(1787)
'The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay, with a Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island: compiled from Authentic Papers' included as an appendix this list of convicts sent to New South Wales in 1787: giving full name (surname first), where convicted, date of conviction, and length of sentence.BELLETT. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Clerks and apprentices
(1788)
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 23 August 1788. IR 1/33BELLETT. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Apprentices and clerks
(1789)
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 31 December 1789. IR 1/34BELLETT. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Inhabitants of Wellington in Somerset
(1790-1797)
The provincial sections of the Universal British Directory include lists of gentry and traders from each town and the surrounding countryside, with names of local surgeons, lawyers, postmasters, carriers, &c. (the sample scan here is from the section for Nottingham). The directory started publication in 1791, but was not completed for some years, and the provincial lists, sent in by local agents, can date back as early as 1790 and as late as 1797.
BELLETT. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Inhabitants of Dublin
(1805)
Holden's Triennial Directory of 1805 to 1807 included a provincial section, listing professional people and traders in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. (The sample scan here is from the listing for Bath)BELLETT. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
(1822)
Death notices and obituaries, marriage and birth notices, civil and military promotions, clerical preferments, general news 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 1822.
BELLETT. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Inhabitants of Somerset
(1830)
Pigot & Co.'s National Commercial Directory lists traders, farmers and private residents in the county.BELLETT. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Deaths of British Army officers
(1831-1832)
The official annual Army List included an appendix listing those officers who had disappeared since the previous edition, because of having died or resigned their commissions in the intervening year. This index covers the deaths. Full names are given, arranged by regiment or corps.BELLETT. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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