Insolvents
(1839) Insolvency notices for England and Wales: insolvency often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost linksBOOTH. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Petitioning Creditors and Solicitors
(1839) Principal creditors petitioning to force a bankruptcy (but often close relatives of the bankrupt helping to protect his assets): and solicitorsBOOTH. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Printer's widow elected to a pension
(1839) The Printers' Pension Society was formed 3 December 1827 for 'the relief of aged, infirm, and distressed workmen, and their widows, in the several branches of the printing trade'. This list of pensioners elected through to December 1881 sets out in tabular form sequential number; year of election; full name (surname first); occupation (such as compositor, pressman, warehouseman, &c.); age at election; total amount paid (to December 1881 where still then living); and year of decease. The names of pensioners still alive at the end of 1881 are given in italics. The final column gives the number of husband or of widow in those cases where the spouse appears elsewhere in the list.BOOTH. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Staffordshire Inquests
(1839) The accounts of expenses incurred by Henry Smith of Wolverhampton, Staffordshire coroner, list the full names of the deceased, the date and place of each inquest. January to July 1839BOOTH. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Trustees and Solicitors
(1839) 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
BOOTH. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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British merchant seamen
(1835-1840) At this period, the foreign trade of ships plying to and from the British isles involved about 150,000 men on 15,000 ships; and the coasting trade about a quarter as many more. A large proportion of the seamen on these ships were British subjects, and so liable to be pressed for service in the Royal Navy; but there was no general register by which to identify them, so in 1835 parliament passed a Merchant Seamen's Registration Bill. Under this act a large register of British seamen was compiled, based on ships' crew lists gathered in British and Irish ports, and passed up to the registry in London. A parliamentary committee decided that the system devised did not answer the original problem, and the original register was abandoned after less than two years: the system was then restarted in this form, with a systematic attempt to attribute the seamen's (ticket) numbers, and to record successive voyages. The register records the number assigned to each man; his name; age; birthplace; quality (S = seaman, &c.); and the name and official number of his ship, with the date of the crew list (usually at the end of a voyage). Most of the men recorded were born in the British Isles, but not all. The system was still very cumbersome, because the names were amassed merely under the first two letters of surname; an attempt was made to separate out namesakes by giving the first instance of a name (a), the second (b), and so on. During 1840 this series of ledgers was abandoned, and a new set started with names grouped together by surname. BT 112/7BOOTH. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankrupts
(1840) Lists of dividends from bankrupts' estates for England and Wales: bankruptcy often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost links
BOOTH. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankrupts
(1840) Bankruptcy notices for England and Wales: bankruptcy often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost links
BOOTH. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankrupts' Assignees
(1840) Assignees of bankrupts' estates (usually principal creditors and/or close relatives of the bankrupt) in England and WalesBOOTH. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankrupts' Assignments
(1840) Assignments of bankrupts' estates (usually to principal creditors and/or close relatives of the bankrupt) in England and WalesBOOTH. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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