Civil Service Appointments
(1855-1857)
The Civil Service Commission published this annual list of all persons who had obtained certificates of qualification for appointment in the various public departments. The list gives full name (surname first); department (such as Post Office, or Inland Revenue); situation (such as Letter-carrier, or Clerk); and date of certificate. Candidates whose names are preceded by a dagger obtained appointments as the result of competition. Those whose names are preceded by an asterisk obtained honorary additions to their certificates either for proficiency in extra subjects chosen by themselves, or for marked proficiency in the prescribed subjects. This list covers the period from 21 May 1855 (the date of the original Order in Council) to 31 December 1857.SPENCER. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankruptcy meetings
(1857)
Bankruptcy meetings in England and WalesSPENCER. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankrupts
(1857)
Bankruptcy notices for England and Wales: bankruptcy often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost links
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Bankrupts' Assignees
(1857)
Assignees of bankrupts' estates (usually principal creditors and/or close relatives of the bankrupt) in England and WalesSPENCER. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bengal Civil Servants: Fifth Class
(1857)
The East India Register and Army List was compiled, by permission of the East India Company, from the official returns received at the East India House. The list of civil servants in Bengal presidency is arranged by class of rank, and then by seniority of appointment. The season of appointment is given on the left, then name (usually in the form christian name, initials for middle names, surname) and current position, or if on furlough - except in the case of the appointees of the season of 1856 in the sixth class, where no position is stated, and christian names are given only as initials.SPENCER. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Boys entering Leeds Grammar School: Upper (Classical) Department
(1857)
The admission books for Leeds Grammar School from 1820 to 1900 were edited by Edmund Wilson and published in 1906. The series of registers is almost complete for the period, there being in addition admission registers for the Lower (or Commercial) Department from 1856 to 1865, and lists of boys in the school in 1856, and in the Commercial Department in 1861. The entries are arranged by date or term of admission: a sequential number is given first, then surname, christian name, and, after a dash, father's christian name, occupation, and address; another dash, and then the age of the boy at admission, and often his year of leaving (with the abbreviation r. for 'removed' or 'left'). r.* means left without notice; (o) or S. or Stranger or Foreigner indicates a boy not on the foundation. The editor was unable to divine the meaning of the abbreviation (Q) or the asterisks prefixed to most entries in 1856 to 1860, but dutifully copies them into the text. In smaller type he then proceeds, where possible, to add some information about the boy's subsequent career.SPENCER. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Boys entering Rugby School
(1857)
This edition of Rugby School Register was published in 1933: the volume covering 1675 to 1857 contains 6480 entries, based on the original school admission registers, but elaborated with general biographical information wherever the editor was able to do so. The entries for the 17th and early 18th centuries are much less detailed than those for later years. The arrangement of the fullest entries was to give the boy's full name (surname first, in bold); whether eldest, second, &c., son; father's name and address as of when the boy entered school; the boy's age at entry and birthday; name of the house (in the school) to which he belonged; then a brief general biography; and date and place of death. SPENCER. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Calcutta Death Notices
(1857)
A compilation of death notices from Calcutta newspapers published in England in the Indian Mail in 1857, and covering the period 21 October 1856 to 7 November 1857. Most, but not all, of the deaths recorded happened within the Bengal presidency.SPENCER. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Dissolutions of Partnerships
(1857)
Trade partnerships dissolved, or the removal of one partner from a partnership of several traders, in England and Wales
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Indian Mutiny: Killed, Wounded and Escaped
(1857)
This list of casualties of the Indian Mutiny was published 17 September 1857.SPENCER. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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