Inhabitants of Yorkshire: Morley wapentake
(1379) The poll tax returns for this wapentake, the area around Bradford and Halifax.FIX. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Suffolk householders
(1674) Hearth tax was raised by assessing each householder on the number of chimneys to the dwelling. This provided a simple way to make a rough judgment as to the value of the dwelling: paupers were issued exemption certificates, but they too were listed at the end of each return. The returns were made by township, grouped by hundred. A complete copy of the hearth tax return for each shire was sent to the Exchequer: this is the return for Suffolk for Lady Day (25 March) 1674 (E 179/257/14) as printed in 1905 as Suffolk Green Book no xi, vol. 13. The numbers given are the numbers of hearths: where two or more people are grouped together with one number, it may be assumed that they were heads of separate households sharing a single building with that number of chimneys.FIX. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Official Papers
(1694-1695) The State Papers Domestic cover all manner of business relating to Britain, Ireland and the colonies, conducted in the office of the Secretary of State as well as other miscellaneous records. Here we have the period from January 1694 to June 1695.
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Treasury and Customs Officials, Officers and Pensioners
(1705) Government accounts, with details of income and expenditure in Britain, America and the colonies
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Masters of Apprentices registered at Colchester in Essex
(1750-1754) 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 sample entry shown on this scan is taken from a Norfolk return)FIX. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Masters of apprentices registered in Lincolnshire
(1771) 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 Durham 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 1/57FIX. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Inhabitants of Bath in Somerset
(1790-1797) The provincial sections of the Universal British Directory include lists of gentry and traders from each town and the surrounding countryside, with names of local surgeons, lawyers, postmasters, carriers, &c. (the sample scan here is from the section for Bath). The directory started publication in 1791, but was not completed for some years, and the provincial lists, sent in by local agents, can date back as early as 1790 and as late as 1797.
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Deaths, Marriages, Bankrupts, Dividends and Patents
(1824-1825) Death notices and obituaries, marriage and birth notices, bankrupts and dividends, and patents, as reported in the Monthly Magazine or British Register. Includes some marriages and deaths from Ireland, Scotland and abroad.
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Bankrupts' Assignees
(1841) Assignees of bankrupts' estates (usually principal creditors and/or close relatives of the bankrupt) in England and WalesFIX. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Petitioning Creditors and Solicitors
(1843) Principal creditors petitioning to force a bankruptcy (but often close relatives of the bankrupt helping to protect his assets): and solicitorsFIX. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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