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Masters of Merchantmen (1822) The Society for the Registry of Shipping was instituted in 1760, and published an annual register and supplement. The annual register consisted of an alphabetical list of ships surveyed for insurance in Britain and Ireland, together with an alphabetical supplement. The society maintained a Registry Office at which alterations and additions were notified, and members delivering their registers when called for had them updated and returned on the following or the ensuing day. Each ship was given a number within each letter of the alphabet: ships' names were not unique, so within each name a ship was identified by the name of the captain or master at the time of the last survey. Then abbreviations indicate the type of vessel (Bg, brig; Bk, barque; Cr, cutter; Dr, dogger; G, galliott; H, hoy; K, ketch; S, ship; Sk, smack; Sp, sloop; Sr, schooner; St, schoot; Sw, snow), and whether sheathed (s) and/or doubled (d) with copper (C) and iron bolts (I B) or over boards (W & C), patent felt (P F), copper fastened (c f), copper bolted (c b), or copper repaired (C rp) sometimes with a date, such as (18)18. The third column, reserved for masters' names, is not particularly wide; with short surnames, an initial will be given; but longer surnames omit the initials, and even longer surnames are abbreviated. It will be borne in mind that these are the names of the masters not (necessarily) in 1822, but at the time of the last survey. Often new masters had been appointed by the time of re-survey, and their names are added in slightly smaller type under the original master's names in the third column. In the fourth column is the tonnage: where there is a blank under the number this indicates that the ship had two decks; more often the letters S D (B) for single deck (with beams); D W for deep waist; S D W single deck with deep waist; B D W single deck with beams and deep waist. Underneath the entry may run references to recent repairs: Cl. clincher built; Drp. damages repaired; grp. good repair; len. lengthened; lrp. large repair; N. (new) B. bottom, D. deck, Kl. keel, Sds. sides or UW. upper-works; rb. rebuilt; rsd. raised; Srprs. some repairs; or trp. thorough repair. In italics, the timber of the ship is described - B. B., black birch; C., cedar; H., hazel; Hk., hackmetack; J., juniper; L. O., live oak; M., mahogany; P., pine; P. P., pitch pine; S., spruce; W. H., witch hazel; W. O., white oak. The fifth column gives the place that the ship was built. For foreign ships this may be as vague as 'Dutch' or 'French'; but nothing in this record specifically indicates the nationality of ship, master or owners, except that an A. under the owner's name indicates that the vessel was American property. The sixth column gives the year of the ship's age; a few were still sailing after 30 or 40 years. The seventh column gives the owner's name, abbreviated in the same way as the master's name. Where the master was the owner, the word Capt. will appear. With vessels owned abroad, the name in this column is sometimes that of the port of origin, not the surname of the owner. Where there has been a change of owner by the time of re-survey, the new name is put underneath in smaller type. The printer sought to avoid confusion by aligning names of ports to the left and surnames to the right, but that leaves longer names doubtful. The eighth column gives the feet of the draught of water when loaded. The ninth column shows the destined voyage for which the survey took place, with the port of survey abbreviated (Be., Belfast; Br., Bristol; Co., Cork; Cs, Cowes; Da., Dartmouth; Du., Dublin; Eh, Exmouth; Ex., Exeter; Fa., Falmouth; Gr., Greenock; Hl, Hull; Hn, Harrington; La., Lancaster; Lh, Leith; Li., Liverpool; Lo., London; Ly., Lynn; Mt., Maryport; Po., Poole; Ph, Portsmouth; Pl., Plymouth; Sc., Star-Cross; Tn., Teignmouth; Tp., Topsham; Wa., Waterford; Wn, Whitehaven; Wo., Workington; Ya., Yarmouth), and the letter C where the vessel was a constant trader between the two ports. The tenth column gives the classification of the vessel (A, first; E, second) and its stores (1, first; 2, second) and the year of survey, e. g. 09 for 1809, or, if surveyed during 1821, the month, e. g. 3 for March. Where the vessel has been re-surveyed, the classification letter and number will be repeated or revised in the final column. The sample scan is from the main list. This is the index to masters in the main list and the supplement.	Sample scan, click to enlarge
Dissolutions of Partnerships (1837) Trade partnerships dissolved, or the removal of one partner from a partnership of several traders: in England and Wales	Sample scan, click to enlarge
Petitioning Creditors and Solicitors (1838) Principal creditors petitioning to force a bankruptcy (but often close relatives of the bankrupt helping to protect his assets): and solicitors	Sample scan, click to enlarge
Dissolutions of Partnerships (1839) Trade partnerships dissolved, or the removal of one partner from a partnership of several traders, in England and Wales	Sample scan, click to enlarge
British merchant seamen (1835-1840) At this period, the foreign trade of ships plying to and from the British isles involved about 150,000 men on 15,000 ships; and the coasting trade about a quarter as many more. A large proportion of the seamen on these ships were British subjects, and so liable to be pressed for service in the Royal Navy; but there was no general register by which to identify them, so in 1835 parliament passed a Merchant Seamen's Registration Bill. Under this act a large register of British seamen was compiled, based on ships' crew lists gathered in British and Irish ports, and passed up to the registry in London. A parliamentary committee decided that the system devised did not answer the original problem, and the original register was abandoned after less than two years: the system was then restarted in this form, with a systematic attempt to attribute the seamen's (ticket) numbers, and to record successive voyages. The register records the number assigned to each man; his name; age; birthplace; quality (S = seaman, &c.); and the name and official number of his ship, with the date of the crew list (usually at the end of a voyage). Most of the men recorded were born in the British Isles, but not all. The system was still very cumbersome, because the names were amassed merely under the first two letters of surname; an attempt was made to separate out namesakes by giving the first instance of a name (a), the second (b), and so on. During 1840 this series of ledgers was abandoned, and a new set started with names grouped together by surname. BT 112/6	Sample scan, click to enlarge
Tenants and occupiers in Sculthorpe (1840) The register of electors entitled to vote in any parliamentary election for West Norfolk between 1 November 1840 and 1 November 1841 lists 7,620 freeholders arranged by hundred and within hundred by parish or township &c. In the first column, after number within the register, the elector's name is given (surname first); the second column gives place of abode; the third column the nature of qualification (such as 'owner and occupier'); and the fourth column the address of the qualifying property, in some cases with the name of the tenant or occupier.	Sample scan, click to enlarge
Bankrupts (1841) Bankruptcy notices for England and Wales: bankruptcy often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost links	Sample scan, click to enlarge
English civil servants (1841) The Royal Kalendar lists officers and officials of a number of government bodies in London: Privy Seal, the Secretary of State's Office (including the Home, Irish, Foreign and Colonial departments, and the Colonial Land and Emigration Board) , the Queen's Mint, the Board of Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations; the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India; the Office of her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works and Buildings (including some officials in Scotland and the provinces, and the rangers and keepers of the royal parks); the State Paper Office; the Signet Office; Alien Department; Registry of Colonial Slaves; Establishment of Queen's Messengers; the Treasury Office; Commissariat Department; Receipt of Exchequer; Office of Paymasters of Exchequer Bills; Stationery Office; General Register Office; Poor Law Commission; Commissioners of Slave Compensation; Reduction of the National Debt and Life Annuity Office; and the Exchequer Bill Loan Office for Public Works and Fisheries.	Sample scan, click to enlarge
London aldermen, councillors, officers and officials (1841) The Royal Kalendar lists the mayor and aldermen of the city of London, annotated with ward, year of election, and address; deputies and common-council men of the city, by ward, with the names of their respective livery companies; the city officers; officials of the Irish Society; Commissioners of Sewers, Lamps and Pavements; the Royal Exchange and Gresham Trust Committee; Gresham College; City of London School; the Commissioners of the Lieutenancy for the London; magistrates and clerks of the London police offices; and officials of the Honourable Artillery Company; and commissioners and officials of the Office of the Metropolitan Roads north of the Thames. Then, gathered together until the title of Miscellaneous Institutions, are the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy; the Scottish Corporation for the Relief of Natives of Scotland who have acquired no Parochial Settlement; Morden College for Decayed Merchants; the Alfred Society; the Travellers' Society; the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of England; Royal Freemasons School; Royal Masonic Institution; Society of Ancient Britons; Royal Humane Society; Mile End Philanthropic Society; Society for the Relief of Distressed Widows; City of London General Pension Society; Society for the Discharge and Relief of Persons Imprisoned for Small Debts; Friendly Female Society for Relieving Poor, Infirm and Aged Widows and Single Women, of Good Character, who have Seen Better Days; Society of Friends of Foreigners in Distress; London Female Penitentiary; Patriotic Fund; Corporation of the Refuge for the Destitute; Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders; Guardian Society for the Preservation of Public Morals; Society for the Suppression of Mendicity; Medical Benevolent Society; British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society; and the General Cemetery Company.	Sample scan, click to enlarge
London trading companies (1841) The Royal Kalendar lists governors, directors, officials and assistants of the main commercial and trading establishments incorporated in London: the South Sea Company, the Russia Company, the Eastland Company, the Hudson's Bay Company, the Canada Company, Van Diemen's Land Company, Corporation for Smelting Down Lead with Pit and Sea Coal, Corporation for Working of Mines, Minerals and Metals in Scotland, English Copper Company, North American Colonial Association, British American Land Company, Committee for Managing the Affairs of Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping, Society of Guardians for the Protection of Trade, Standing Committee of West India Planters and Merchants, African Committee for the Forts on the Gold Coast, East and West India Dock Company, London Dock Company, Commercial Dock Company, Grand Surrey Canal Dock Company, St Katharine Dock Company, Regent's Canal Company, New River Company, East London Water Works, Vauxhall Water Works, West Middlesex Water Works, Grand Junction Water Works, Lambeth Water Works, Gas Light and Coke Company, Phoenix Gas Light and Coke Company, Imperial Gas Light and Coke Company, General Shipowners Society, and a large number of insurance societies.	Sample scan, click to enlarge

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