Shareholders of the Newcastle, Shields and Sunderland Union 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.FALCONER. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankrupts' Assignments
(1839)
Assignments of bankrupts' estates (usually to principal creditors and/or close relatives of the bankrupt) in England and WalesFALCONER. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
(1839)
Death notices and obituaries, marriage and birth notices, civil and military promotions, clerical preferments and domestic occurrences, as reported in the Gentleman's Magazine. Mostly from England and Wales, but items from Ireland, Scotland and abroad.
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Central Criminal Court Jury Lists
(1839-1840)
Six juries were empanelled to hear the cases brought at the Central Criminal Court on the Queen's Commission of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer, and Gaol Delivery for the City of London, and Gaol Delivery for the county of Middlesex and those parts of the counties of Essex, Kent and Surrey within its jurisdiction. These are the men selected for the six sessions beginning 25 November 1839, and continuing through to Spring of 1840.FALCONER. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Dissolutions of Partnerships
(1840)
Trade partnerships dissolved, or the removal of one partner from a partnership of several traders, in England and Wales
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Officers of the British Army
(1840)
The New Annual Army List, corrected to 7 February 1840, was published in London by Lieut. H. G. Hart. It lists all serving officers, first of all a list of General and Field Officers by rank from field marshal down to major; and then by regiment, including all ranks down to ensign, with paymasters, adjutants, quarter-masters, surgeons and assistant-surgeons. These lists are all annotated with dates of rank in the army and regiment, and with symbols indicating the officers present at Trafalgar (T), in the Peninsula or the South of France (P), and Waterloo (W). A superscript p indicates that the commission was purchased; an asterisk that it was temporary. The regiments and units are listed in order of precedence: Head Quarters staff; Life Guards; Horse Guards; 7 regiments of Dragoon Guards; 17 regiments of Dragoons; 98 regiments of Foot; the Rifle Brigade; two West India regiments of Foot; Ceylon Rifles; Royal African Colonial Corps; Cape Mounted Rifles; Royal Newfoundland Veterans; Royal Malta Fencibles; Recruiting Staff; Royal Artillery; Royal Engineers; Royal Marines; Commissariat; and the Medical Department. FALCONER. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Passengers from Bombay to Aden and Suez (1840)
The Honourable East India Company's vessels Atalanta, Berenice, Hugh Lindsay, Victoria and Zenobia made monthly trips to the Red Sea via Aden. Lists of passengers were compiled before setting out from Bombay and registered when the ships reached Suez Roads.
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Petitioning Creditors and Solicitors
(1840)
Principal creditors petitioning to force a bankruptcy (but often close relatives of the bankrupt helping to protect his assets): and solicitorsFALCONER. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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English academics
(1841)
Professors and officials of the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and London, are listed in the Royal Kalendar.
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English intelligentsia
(1841)
The Royal Kalendar lists patrons, governors and officers of a number of English literary and scientific institutions, all based in London: the Mathematical Society; British Museum; National Gallery of Pictures; Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce; Royal Academy of Arts; the Highland Society of London; the Linnean Society; Horticultural Society of London; Royal Asiatic Society; Geological Society; Royal Astronomical Society; Royal Medico-Botanical Society of London; Zoological Society; Royal Institution; British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts; London Institution; Russell Institution; London Mechanics' Institution; City of London Literary and Scientific Institution; Marylebone Literary and Scientific Institution; Royal Society of Literature; Royal Academy of Music; Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge; Royal Geographical Society; Statistical Society of London; Camden Society for the Publication of Early Historical and Literary Remains; Atheneaum, Pall Mall; United Service Institution; Royal Botanic Society of London; the Royal Institute of British Architects; and the Institution of Civil Engineers.FALCONER. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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