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(1835) A poll was taken 6 and 7 January 1835 for the election of members to serve in Parliament for the borough of Kingston-upon-Hull, the candidates being Matthew Davenport Hill, William Hutt and David Carruthers. This poll book lists all the electors in the wards of Hull (St Mary's, North, Trinity, Whitefriar, Humber, Austin, and South Myton), in Sculcoates, and in Sutton, Southcoates, Drypool &c. In each ward the names are arranged in five sections: Householders and Burgesses occupying Ten Pound Households; Burgesses not occupying Ten Pound Households; Unpolled Voters residing in the ward; Unpolled Freemen; and Non-Resident Freemen not polling. There are also short lists of votes that were tendered but the validity of which remained uncertain. In all cases full names and addresses are given: where electors voted, their votes are indicated in the right-hand columns, the numbers shown there being their numbers in the cumulating totals for each candidate. After the name of each voter there is an italic a or b showing whether he voted on the first or second day. DOWSON. Cost: £4.00. ![Add to basket](/oicons/addtobasket.gif) | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Petitioning Creditors and Solicitors
(1835) Principal creditors petitioning to force a bankruptcy (but often close relatives of the bankrupt helping to protect his assets): and solicitorsDOWSON. Cost: £6.00. ![Add to basket](/oicons/addtobasket.gif) | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| British merchant seamen
(1835-1836) 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 this 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. Each seaman was assigned a number, and the names were arranged in the register by first two letters of the surname (our sample scan shows one of the pages for 'Sm'); in addition, an attempt was made to separate out namesakes by giving the first instance of a name (a), the second (b), and so on. But no effective method was devised to prevent the same man being registered twice as he appeared in a second crew list; moreover, the original crew lists were clearly difficult for the registry clerks to copy, and some of the surname spellings appear to be corrupted. A parliamentary committee decided that the system devised did not answer the original problem, and this register was abandoned after less than two years: but it is an apparently comprehensive source for British merchant seamen in 1835 to 1836. The register records the number assigned to each man; his name; age; birthplace; quality (master, captain, mate, 2nd mate, mariner, seaman, fisherman, cook, carpenter, boy &c.); and the name and home port 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 (for instance, Charleston and Stockholm appear in the sample scan). The final column 'How disposed of' is rarely used, and indicates those instances where a man died, was discharged, or deserted his ship during the voyage.DOWSON. Cost: £8.00. ![Add to basket](/oicons/addtobasket.gif) | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Bankruptcy information
(1836) Abstract of the circumstances causing a bankruptcy in England and Wales: assets, liabilities &c.DOWSON. Cost: £6.00. ![Add to basket](/oicons/addtobasket.gif) | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Bankruptcy information
(1837) Abstract of the circumstances causing a bankruptcy: assets, liabilities &c.DOWSON. Cost: £6.00. ![Add to basket](/oicons/addtobasket.gif) | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| British in India and Ceylon, China and Australasia
(1837) Births, marriages and deaths, civil, ecclesiastical and military promotions, furloughs, reports of shipping to and from England and the East, with passenger lists, and news items published in the Asiatic Journal
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| Proprietors of Carlisle and Cumberland Joint-Stock Bank
(1838) The provincial banks of England and Wales made annual returns to the Stamp Office of their proprietors or shareholders. These returns, registered in March 1838, from the 103 banks then in existence, contain the full names and addresses of about 30,000 shareholders.DOWSON. Cost: £6.00. ![Add to basket](/oicons/addtobasket.gif) | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Proprietors of Lancaster Banking Company
(1838) The provincial banks of England and Wales made annual returns to the Stamp Office of their proprietors or shareholders. These returns, registered in March 1838, from the 103 banks then in existence, contain the full names and addresses of about 30,000 shareholders.DOWSON. Cost: £6.00. ![Add to basket](/oicons/addtobasket.gif) | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Proprietors of the East of England Bank
(1838) The provincial banks of England and Wales made annual returns to the Stamp Office of their proprietors or shareholders. These returns, registered in March 1838, from the 103 banks then in existence, contain the full names and addresses of about 30,000 shareholders. This bank had branches throughout Norfolk and Suffolk.DOWSON. Cost: £6.00. ![Add to basket](/oicons/addtobasket.gif) | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Shareholders of the Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company
(1838) The provincial banks of England and Wales made annual returns to the Stamp Office of their proprietors or shareholders. These returns, registered in March 1838, from the 103 banks then in existence, contain the full names and addresses of nearly 30,000 shareholders.DOWSON. Cost: £6.00. ![Add to basket](/oicons/addtobasket.gif) | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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