Apprentices and clerks
(1800) 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 1800. IR 1/38PLANNER. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Masters of apprentices and clerks
(1802) 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 2 June 1802. IR 1/38PLANNER. 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.PLANNER. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Deaths, Marriages, Bankrupts, Dividends and Patents
(1825) Death notices and obituaries, marriage and birth notices, bankrupts and dividends, and patents, as reported in the Monthly Magazine or British Register. Includes some marriages and deaths from Ireland, Scotland and abroad.
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Petitioning Creditors and Solicitors
(1828-1829) Principal creditors petitioning to force a bankruptcy (but often close relatives of the bankrupt helping to protect his assets). Perry's Bankrupt and Insolvent Gazette was printed monthly for subscribers only, and included a section entitled Bankrupts, summarizing notices of bankruptcy proceedings. Volume 4, for 1829, covers bankruptcies gazetted from 2 December 1828 to 24 November 1829. The Gazette provided an index to the names of the principal bankrupts, but we have prepared this index to the names of the principal creditors, together with some stray names and solicitors from the records.
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Bankruptcy Dividends
(1835) Dividends from bankrupts' estatesPLANNER. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankrupts' Assignments
(1856) Assignments of bankrupts' estates (usually to principal creditors and/or close relatives of the bankrupt) in England and WalesPLANNER. 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. PLANNER. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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London and Westminster Bank Shareholders
(1873) Copy of the return by the London and Westminster Bank to the Inland Revenue listing the 'persons of whom the Company or partnership consists', pursuant to 7 & 8 Vic. cap. 32: giving full name (surname first), residence and occupation (often not stated).PLANNER. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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London Joint Stock Bank Shareholders
(1873) Copy of the return by the London Joint Stock Bank to the Inland Revenue listing the 'persons of whom the Company or partnership consists', pursuant to 7 & 8 Vic. cap. 32: giving full name (surname first), residence and occupation (often not stated).PLANNER. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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