Masters of Apprentices
(1773) Apprenticeship indentures and clerks' articles were subject to a 6d or 12d per pound stamp duty (late payment of the 6d rate attracted double duty (D D) of 12d): the registers of the payments usually give the master's trade, address, and occupation, and the apprentice's name, as well as details of the date and length of the apprenticeship. 2 January to 2 November 1773FULLAGAR. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Apprentices
(1775) Apprenticeship indentures and clerks' articles were subject to a 6d or 12d per pound stamp duty: the registers of the payments usually give the master's trade, address, and occupation, and the apprentice's name, as well as details of the date and length of the apprenticeship. 1 January to 31 December 1775.FULLAGAR. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Masters of apprentices registered in Kent
(1794) Apprenticeship indentures and clerks' articles were subject to a 6d or 12d per pound stamp duty: the registers of the payments usually give the master's trade, address, and occupation, and the apprentice's name, as well as details of the date and length of the apprenticeship. There are central registers for collections of the stamp duty in London, as well as returns from collectors in the provinces. These collectors generally received duty just from their own county, but sometimes from further afield. The indentures themselves can date from a year or two earlier than this return. (The sample entry shown on this scan is taken from a Bristol return. Each entry has two scans, the other being the facing page with the details of the indenture, length of service, and payment of duty.) IR 1/66FULLAGAR. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Traders and professionals in London
(1805) Holden's Triennial Directory for 1805 to 1807 includes this 'London Alphabet of Businesses, Professions, &c.': coverage is good; about 30,000 individuals are recorded.FULLAGAR. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
(1831) 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.
FULLAGAR. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Trustees and Solicitors
(1838) 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
FULLAGAR. 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 solicitorsFULLAGAR. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Insolvents
(1840) Insolvency notices for England and Wales: insolvency often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost linksFULLAGAR. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Dissolutions of Partnerships
(1841) Trade partnerships dissolved, or the removal of one partner from a partnership of several traders, in England and Wales
FULLAGAR. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Trustees and solicitors in England and Wales
(1849) Perry's Bankrupt and Insolvent Gazette, issued monthly, included lists of assignments of bankrupts' estates. Each entry gives the name of the bankrupt (surname first, in capitals), the date (in brackets), address and trade; followed by the names and addresses of the trustees to whom the estate was delivered, and the name and address of the solicitor. This is the index to the names of the trustees and solicitors, from the issues from January to December 1849.FULLAGAR. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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