Masters of Apprentices registered in Staffordshire
(1741-1745) 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 father's name and address, 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 sample entry shown on this scan is taken from a Norfolk return)DILLER. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Apprentices and trainee clerks
(1762) 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. 1 January to 31 December 1762.DILLER. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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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 1773DILLER. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Apprentices registered in Wiltshire
(1773) 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 1/58DILLER. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
(1789) Death notices and obituaries, marriage and birth notices, civil and military promotions, clerical preferments, and bankrupts, as reported in the Gentleman's Magazine. Mostly from England and Wales, but items from Ireland, Scotland and abroad.
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Sailors on board H. M. S. Orion
(1796-1799) His Majesty's ship the Orion took part in the destruction of the French fleet in Aboukir Bay at the mouth of the Nile ('the Battle of the Nile') on the evening of the 1st and morning of the 2nd August 1798. This is the muster book for 12 October 1798 to 6 January 1799: being a continuation book in a series covering wages and victualling from April 1796, it also includes the names of some men who had died, deserted or been discharged from the ship from then to October 1798. Usually each man's entry gives his birthplace, and also his age on entering the ship.DILLER. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Masters of apprentices and clerks
(1802) 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. 3 June to 31 December 1802. IR 1/39DILLER. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Inhabitants of Dorset
(1830) Pigot & Co.'s National Commercial Directory lists traders, farmers and private residents in the county.DILLER. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankrupts' Assignees
(1839) Assignees of bankrupts' estates (usually principal creditors and/or close relatives of the bankrupt) in England and WalesDILLER. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Assignees of bankrupts' estates in England and Wales
(1850) Perry's Bankrupt and Insolvent Gazette, issued monthly, included lists of assignees of bankrupts' estates. Each entry gives the name of the bankrupt (surname first, in capitals), and trade; followed by the names, addresses and trades of the assignees to whom the estate was delivered. This is the index to the names of the assignees, from the issues from January to December 1850.DILLER. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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