Workers at Pollard's Cotton Mill, Manchester
(1818)
The minutes of evidence taken before the Lords Committee on the Cotton Factories Bill include a series of reports by medical men as to the general health of the mill workers in April 1818. For each factory there is a complete list of workers, giving full name, age, how long employed in a factory, health (in general terms, such as 'Good' or 'Sickly'), and any chronic disease or 'distortion', cause and duration - with slight variations from report to report. The physicians examined several hundred people each day, asking such questions as 'Have you any swellings or sores anywhere?', 'Are your limbs straight?', 'Have you a good appetite for food?', 'Do you conceive yourself to be in good health?', and all concluded that the health of the mill workers was good, and that the workers were cheerful. This is the report for Pollard's spinning mill in Manchester, 20 April 1818.ELLINGWORTH. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankrupts
(1837)
Bankruptcy notices for England and Wales: bankruptcy often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost links
ELLINGWORTH. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankrupts' Dividends
(1837)
Distributions of money raised from bankrupts' estates in England and Wales: also insolvents' estates and results of meetingsELLINGWORTH. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Insolvents
(1837)
Declarations of insolvency in England and WalesELLINGWORTH. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankrupts
(1838)
Bankruptcy notices for England and Wales: bankruptcy often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost links
ELLINGWORTH. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Electors for Leeds
(1848)
On 14 and 15 December 1848 an election took place for a Knight of the Shire for the West Riding of Yorkshire in the House of Commons. The candidates were Edmund Denison and sir Culling Eardley Eardley, gaining 14,743 and 11,795 votes respectively. The county franchise at this period included freeholders of land worth 40s or more a year; £10 copyholders and long-leaseholders; and £50 short-leaseholders and tenants. This poll book was published in 1849.
Former poll books had been compiled from the sheriff's returns; but as these were now transmitted to the Home Office immediately after an election, in this instance the polling was marked from the check-clerk's returns, carefully compared with the registers marked in the poll booths at the time of voting.
The votes for the respective candidates are indicated by the numerals 1 (Denison) and 2 (Eardley). The omission of these numerals indicates that the elector did not vote. Many names which appear on the register of particular townships are completely omitted in this poll book: in all these cases, the same name will be found recorded in some other township, the elector having two or more qualifications. In such cases, his name only appears in the poll book in the actual township for which he chose to vote; or, if he did not vote at all, in that township for which he was qualified that lay closest to his actual residence.
The townships are arranged alphabetically within polling district; and within each township the names are arranged alphabetically by surname and christian name, and the elector's residence is given. Many of the electors resided outside the township for which they were qualified - some in other counties. Moreover, at the end of each polling district there is a list of persons registered to poll in that district, from townships is other districts. ELLINGWORTH. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Inhabitants of Leeds, Yorkshire
(1853)
William White's directory lists traders, farmers and private residents in the area. ELLINGWORTH. 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. ELLINGWORTH. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Residents and Traders in Birmingham
(1861)
William Cornish's Corporation General and Trades Directory covered Birmingham, Coventry and the towns of the Black Country. The Birmingham section contains both street lists and this general alphabetical directory. ELLINGWORTH. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Baptists
(1873)
The Baptist was a weekly newspaper, with some general news and political coverage, but mainly devoted to chronicling Denominational Intelligence, i. e. the doings of the Baptist churches in Britain and Ireland. January to June 1873.ELLINGWORTH. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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