Scottish Bankrupts
(1842)
Scotch Sequestrations: bankruptcy often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost links
REACH. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankruptcy meetings
(1843)
Meetings for the allowance of bankrupts' certificates in England and Wales: a final stage before the discharge of a bankruptREACH. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankruptcy Meetings
(1843)
Meetings about bankrupts' estates in England and WalesREACH. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankruptcy Meetings
(1844)
Meetings about bankrupts' estates in England and WalesREACH. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Insolvents in bankruptcy in England and Wales
(1845)
Perry's Bankrupt and Insolvent Gazette, issued monthly, included lists of insolvents petitioning the courts of bankruptcy, together with subsequent stages in their discharge. The insolvent is generally referred to by name (surname first, in capitals), address and trade. The initial notice of the petition gives the surnames of the Commissioner and the Official Assignee. This is the index to the names of the insolvents, from the issues from January to December 1845.REACH. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Insolvents in England and Wales
(1845)
Perry's Bankrupt and Insolvent Gazette, issued monthly, included lists of insolvencies and stages in the process whereby the insolvents petitioned for release from debtors' prison. The insolvent is generally referred to by name (surname first), address and trade. This is the index to the names of the insolvents, from the issues from January to December 1845.REACH. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Railway Subscription Contracts
(1845)
£21,386,703 6s 4d was promised by about 10,000 subscribers of less than £2,000 per contract to the nearly 200 railway bills deposited in the Private Bill Office during the Session of Parliament for 1845. This alphabetical list gives the full names of the subscribers (surname first), description (i. e., occupation), place of abode, a numerical reference to the title of the railway, the amount subscribed to each, and total. There is a separate key to the titles of the railways.REACH. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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National Provincial Bank Shareholders
(1853)
Copy of the return by the National Provincial Bank of England to the Inland Revenue listing the 'persons of whom the Company or Partnership consists', pursuant to 7 & 8 Vic. cap. 32: giving full name (surname first), residence and occupation.REACH. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Dissolutions of Partnerships
(1855)
Trade partnerships dissolved, or the removal of one partner from a partnership of several traders: in England and Wales
REACH. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Long-stay Paupers in Workhouses: Bury St Edmunds
(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). REACH. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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