PCC Probate Abstracts
(1650-1651)
The Prerogative Court of Canterbury's main jurisdiction was central and southern England and Wales, as well as over sailors &c dying abroad: these brief abstracts usually give address, date of probate and name of executor or administrator
INSON. Cost: £2.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Treasury and Customs Officials, Officers and Pensioners
(1717)
Government accounts, with details of income and expenditure in Britain, America and the colonies
INSON. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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 Masters of Apprentices
(1767)
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 31 December 1767.INSON. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Masters of Apprentices
(1771)
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. 18 March to 31 December 1771INSON. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Masters of apprentices registered in Devonshire
(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 1/57INSON. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Sailors on board H. M. S. Theseus
(1796-1798)
His Majesty's ship the Theseus took part in the destruction of the French fleet in Aboukir Bay at the mouth of the Nile ('the Battle of the Nile') on the evening of the 1st and morning of the 2nd August 1798. This is the muster book for 1 June to 31 July 1798: being a continuation book in a series covering wages and victualling from September 1796, it also includes the names of some men who had died, deserted or been discharged from the ship from then to June 1798. Usually each man's entry gives his birthplace, and also his age on entering the ship.INSON. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Sailors on board H. M. S. Theseus
(1796-1798)
His Majesty's ship the Theseus took part in the destruction of the French fleet in Aboukir Bay at the mouth of the Nile ('the Battle of the Nile') on the evening of the 1st and morning of the 2nd August 1798. This is the muster book for 1 August to 30 September 1798: being a continuation book in a series covering wages and victualling from September 1796, it also includes the names of some men who had died, deserted or been discharged from the ship from then to August 1798. Of the ship's complement of 590, this index covers the sailors, volunteers, and boys, as well as the supernumeraries: but not the marines, or the French prisoners taken after the battle. Usually each man's entry gives his birthplace, and also his age on entering the ship.INSON. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Residents of Southport, Lancashire
(1883)
Slater's Royal National Directory of Southport and Birkdale with their Vicinities of 1883-4 includes this general alphabetical listing of residents and traders.INSON. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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