 Apprentices registered in Devon
(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)DOUDNEY. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
|
Clerks and apprentices
(1785)
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 31 December 1785. IR 1/32DOUDNEY. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
|
Traders and professionals in London
(1805)
Holden's Triennial Directory for 1805 to 1807 includes this 'London Alphabet of Businesses, Professions, &c.': coverage is good; about 30,000 individuals are recorded.DOUDNEY. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
|
Insolvents
(1826)
Insolvency notices for England and Wales: insolvency often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost linksDOUDNEY. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
|
Inhabitants of Devon
(1830)
Pigot & Co.'s National Commercial Directory lists traders, farmers and private residents in the county.DOUDNEY. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
|
Merchants, Bankers, Shipowners and Traders of London
(1834)
The public prints of December 1834 carried this loyal address to king William IV of merchants, bankers, shipowners, traders and others connected with the city of London, requesting 'permission at the present juncture to address your Majesty for the purpose of renewing the expression of our dutiful and loyal attachment to your Majesty’s person and crown. Deeply sensible of the practical blessings we have hitherto enjoyed under our wisely mixed constitution of King, Lords, and Commons, and feeling that the free and legitimate exercise of the Royal prerogative forms an integral part of that constitution (as essential to the maintenance of our own liberties as to the power and dignity of the Throne), we beg humbly to assure your Majesty of our determination steadfastly to uphold the same by every means in our power.
'Feeling, in common with all classes of your Majesty’s subjects, the deep importance of applying to all real abuses, wherever they may be found, a wholesome and timely correction, and of effecting in our excellent institutions every improvement of which careful examination and experience may prove them to be susceptible, we desire further dutifully to express our entire confidence that these useful purposes will ever occupy your Majesty’s paternal care. Nor can we permit ourselves to believe that the importance of these objects will be less apparent to those to whom the powers of government have been recently intrusted.'
Full names are given (or surname with initials), and address. Over 5000 subscribed.
DOUDNEY. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
|
Bankrupts
(1835)
Bankruptcy notices for England and Wales: bankruptcy often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost links
DOUDNEY. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
|
Insolvents
(1835)
Insolvency notices for England and Wales: insolvency often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost linksDOUDNEY. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
|
Dissolutions of Partnerships
(1841)
Trade partnerships dissolved, or the removal of one partner from a partnership of several traders, in England and Wales
DOUDNEY. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
|
Insolvents
(1842)
Insolvency notices for England and Wales: insolvency often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost linksDOUDNEY. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
|
Research your ancestry, family history, genealogy and one-name study by direct access to original records and archives indexed by surname.
