Masters and Apprentices
(1720) 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. 5 September to 31 December 1720.DOUBTFIRE. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Apprentices
(1768) 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 3 December 1768.DOUBTFIRE. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Apprentices and clerks
(1797) 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. 2 January to 30 December 1797. IR 1/37DOUBTFIRE. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Inhabitants of Devon
(1830) Pigot & Co.'s National Commercial Directory lists traders, farmers and private residents in the county.DOUBTFIRE. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Traders and professionals in London
(1856) The Post Office London Directory for 1856 includes this 'Commercial and Professional Directory', recording over 100,000 individuals. DOUBTFIRE. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Long-stay Paupers in Workhouses: Stoke Damerel
(1861) This comprehensive return by the Poor Law Board for England and Wales in July 1861 revealed that of the 67,800 paupers aged 16 or over, exclusive of vagrants, then in the Board's workhouses, 14,216 (6,569 men, 7,647 women) had been inmates for a continuous period of five years and upwards. The return lists all these long-stay inmates from each of the 626 workhouses that had been existence for five years and more, giving full name; the amount of time that each had been in the workhouse (years and months); the reason assigned why the pauper in each case was unable to sustain himself or herself; and whether or not the pauper had been brought up in a district or workhouse school (very few had). The commonest reasons given for this long stay in the workhouse were: old age and infirm (3,331); infirm (2,565); idiot (1,565); weak mind (1,026); imbecile (997); and illness (493). DOUBTFIRE. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Debtors
(1887) County Court Judgments in England and Wales. July to September 1887DOUBTFIRE. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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County Court Judgments: Yorkshire
(1890) Extracts from the Registry of County Courts' Judgments. These judgments were not necessarily for debt. In some cases they were for damages on properly disputed causes of action, but no distinction was made on the Register. Judgments settled otherwise than through the Court may appear, unless 'Satisfaction' was entered up within the fourteen days allowed for that purpose. These printed extracts include occasional notes giving more detail about certain cases, and also list Satisfactions entered on the Register.DOUBTFIRE. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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