Daughters of Wesleyan Methodist preachers
(1812-1813)
The Wesleyan Methodist church allowed 8 guineas for each preacher's daughter to her father for her education; these sums are listed in the annual accounts, with the girl's full name, arranged by school year, giving us an idea of her age.TRETHEWEY. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Wesleyan Methodist preachers' widows
(1812-1813)
The Wesleyan Methodist church's Merciful Fund provided annuities for preachers' widows, as well as other payments to retired clergy, widows and other dependants in need. These are listed in the annual minutes. Particularly useful is the fact that, after a widow remarried, her first married surname and her new surname were both given.TRETHEWEY. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Daughters of Wesleyan Methodist preachers
(1813-1814)
Children of Wesleyan Methodist preachers could be educated by the church at their schools at Kingswood and Woodhouse Grove. For each girl not educated at these schools 8 guineas was allowed by the church to her father; these sums are listed in the annual accounts, with the girl's full name, arranged by school year, giving us an idea of her age.TRETHEWEY. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Insolvents
(1855)
Insolvency notices for England and Wales: insolvency often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost linksTRETHEWEY. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Wesleyan Ministers
(1867)
The Wesleyan Methodist church in England and Ireland held annual conferences, abbreviated minutes of which were printed in the Wesleyan Methodist Magazine of September and October each year. These minutes include a complete list of the stations of the ministers for the coming year, with the names of the preachers 'on trial' and supernumeraries, arranged by district. The 32 British districts are covered, but not the ministers in Ireland or abroad.TRETHEWEY. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Debtors, Insolvents and Bankrupts
(1882)
Bills of sale (binding assets to a creditor/lender), insolvencies and bankruptcies in England and Wales, October to December 1882TRETHEWEY. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Unclaimed Stock and Dividends in the Bank of England
(1883-1884)
Volume 76 of The Law Times, 'The Journal of The Law and The Lawyers', a weekly publication, runs from 3 November 1883 to 26 April 1884. Each week there was this list of Unclaimed Stock and Dividends in the Bank of England transferred to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, and which would be paid to the claimants named within three months, unless some other claimants sooner appeared. The names given and here indexed are therefore those of the original owners and of the claimants.TRETHEWEY. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Debtors, Insolvents and Bankrupts
(1887)
Bills of sale (binding assets to a creditor/lender), insolvencies and bankruptcies in England and Wales, October to December 1887TRETHEWEY. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Owners of Merchantmen Lost at Sea by Stranding
(1897-1898)
Abstracts of the returns made to the Board of Trade of shipping casualties which occurred on or near the coasts or in rivers and harbours of the United Kingdom; and to British vessels elsewhere; and to foreign vessels on or near the coasts or in the rivers and harbours of British possessions abroad (including the Great Lakes of North America). The tables are arranged into the broad divisions of Total Losses at Sea (founderings, strandings, collisions, other causes, and missing); Partial Losses at Sea (founderings, strandings, collisions and other causes); Total Losses in Rivers, Lakes and Harbours (founderings, strandings, collisions and other causes); and Partial Losses in Rivers, Lakes and Harbours (founderings, strandings, collisions and other causes). In each case they state (so far as known) the date; name and age of the vessel; port of registry (if British); class in Lloyd's Register, Liverpool Book or Bureau Veritas; description of vessel, and whether iron (I.) or wood (W.); tons; number of crew; name of master (usually surname and initials); name and address of owner(s); port sailed from; port bound to; cargo and number of passengers (if any); number of lives lost; wind (direction and strength); and place of casualty. July 1897 to June 1898
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Cornwall Chess Team (1905)
Members of the local chess team named in the results of tournaments recorded in the British Chess Magazine
TRETHEWEY. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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