Birmingham Directory
(1776) The Birmingham Directory; or, Merchant and Tradesman's Useful Companion included this 'alphabetical list of the principal inhabitants, their respective trades, and places of abode'. Printed and sold by Pearson and Rollason in 1776, and reprinted by Charles E. Scarse, librarian of Birmingham Library, in 1896. Full names are generally given, surname first, with trade and address, including house numbers.INSOLE. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Apprentices and clerks
(1788) 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. 25 August to 31 December 1788. IR 1/34INSOLE. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Merchants, Traders and Respectable Inhabitants of Birmingham
(1818) Wrightson's New Triennial Directory of Birmingham included this 'Alphabetical List of the Merchants, Traders and Respectable Inhabitants of the Town'.INSOLE. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Shareholders of the West of England and South Wales District Bank
(1838) The provincial banks of England and Wales made annual returns to the Stamp Office of their proprietors or shareholders. These returns, registered in March 1838, from the 103 banks then in existence, contain the full names and addresses of nearly 30,000 shareholders.INSOLE. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankrupts' Assignees
(1840) Assignees of bankrupts' estates (usually principal creditors and/or close relatives of the bankrupt) in England and WalesINSOLE. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Petitioning Creditors and Solicitors
(1840) Principal creditors petitioning to force a bankruptcy (but often close relatives of the bankrupt helping to protect his assets): and solicitorsINSOLE. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Dissolutions of Partnerships
(1842) Trade partnerships dissolved, or the removal of one partner from a partnership of several traders, in England and Wales
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Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
(1848) Death notices and obituaries, marriage and birth notices, civil and military promotions, clerical preferments and domestic occurrences, as reported in the Gentleman's Magazine. Mostly from England and Wales, but items from Ireland, Scotland and abroad. July to December 1848.INSOLE. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Inhabitants of Birmingham
(1850) Francis White & Co.'s History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Warwickshire for 1850 lists nobility, gentry, clergy, other private residents, farmers and traders, hundred by hundred and village by village, with separate sections for the large towns. This long alphabetical section lists inhabitants of Birmingham.INSOLE. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Assignees of bankrupts' estates in England and Wales
(1851) 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 1851.INSOLE. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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