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.BOATH. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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 Apprentices registered at Newcastle upon Tyne in Northumberland
(1717-1719)
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. Because of the delay before some collectors made their returns, this register includes indentures and articles from as early as 1716. (The sample entry shown on this scan is taken from a Norfolk return)BOATH. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankrupts
(1786-1806)
William Smith's abstracts of bankrupts, dividends and certificates for England and Wales from 1786 to June 1806. Bankruptcy causes abrupt changes in people's lives, and is often the reason for someone appearing suddenly in a different location or in a different occupation.BOATH. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Scottish Bankrupts
(1843)
Scotch Sequestrations: bankruptcy often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost links
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The Edinburgh Gazette
(1846)
The Edinburgh Gazette is the official publication in which various Scottish legal notices are issued, as well as promotions and casualty lists for the British army as a whole, and brief lists of English bankrupts. The key source for tracing details of Scottish bankruptcies, insolvencies, and dissolutions of business partnerships.BOATH. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Inhabitants of Arbroath (1847)
This alphabetical directory gives full names, occupation and address.
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Inhabitants of Forfar (1847)
This alphabetical directory gives full names, occupation and address.
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Inhabitants of Kirriemuir (1847)
This alphabetical directory gives full names, occupation and address.
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Registered Electors of Forfar, Forfarshire (1847)
This alphabetical list gives full names and addresses.
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Registered Electors of Kinnettles, Forfarshire (1847)
This alphabetical list gives full names and addresses.
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