Dividends of insolvents' estates in England and Wales
(1851) Perry's Bankrupt and Insolvent Gazette, issued monthly, included brief notices of dividends of insolvents' estates. Each entry gives the year that the insolvency was first gazetted, the surname and initials of the bankrupt, trade and address; followed by the amount of the dividend as shillings and pence in the pound. This is the index to the names of the insolvents, from the issues from January to December 1851.CANSDALE. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Traders and professionals in London
(1851) The Post Office London Directory for 1851 includes this 'Commercial and Professional Directory', recording about 80,000 individuals. CANSDALE. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Traders in Greenwich, Woolwich &c.
(1852) W. Archdeacon's Greenwich and Woolwich Directory for 1852 (including Deptford, Blackheath, Lewisham, Charlton, Plumstead, Shooter's Hill, Lee,&c.) has two long alphabetical listings, commercial and private residents.
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Bankrupts' Assignments
(1855) Assignments of bankrupts' estates (usually to principal creditors and/or close relatives of the bankrupt) in England and WalesCANSDALE. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Insolvents
(1855) Insolvency notices for England and Wales: insolvency often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost linksCANSDALE. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Insolvents
(1855) Insolvency notices for England and Wales: insolvency often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost linksCANSDALE. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Traders and professionals in London
(1856) The Post Office London Directory for 1856 includes this 'Commercial and Professional Directory', recording over 100,000 individuals. CANSDALE. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankruptcy meeting adjournments
(1857) Adjournments of bankruptcy meetings in England and WalesCANSDALE. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Long-stay Paupers in Workhouses: Lexden and Winstree
(1861) This comprehensive return by the Poor Law Board for England and Wales in July 1861 revealed that of the 67,800 paupers aged 16 or over, exclusive of vagrants, then in the Board's workhouses, 14,216 (6,569 men, 7,647 women) had been inmates for a continuous period of five years and upwards. The return lists all these long-stay inmates from each of the 626 workhouses that had been existence for five years and more, giving full name; the amount of time that each had been in the workhouse (years and months); the reason assigned why the pauper in each case was unable to sustain himself or herself; and whether or not the pauper had been brought up in a district or workhouse school (very few had). The commonest reasons given for this long stay in the workhouse were: old age and infirm (3,331); infirm (2,565); idiot (1,565); weak mind (1,026); imbecile (997); and illness (493). CANSDALE. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Debtors
(1880) Bills of sale (binding assets to a creditor/lender) in England and Wales, October to December 1880CANSDALE. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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