Masters of apprentices and clerks
(1801) 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 1801. IR 1/38PUDDEFOOT. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
|
Insolvents
(1827) Insolvency notices for England and Wales: insolvency often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost linksPUDDEFOOT. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
|
Trustees and Solicitors
(1842) Trustees appointed to take over bankrupts' estates in England and Wales, and their solicitors. Trustees are often friends or relatives of the bankrupt: and/or principal creditors
PUDDEFOOT. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
|
Insolvents in England and Wales
(1850) Perry's Bankrupt and Insolvent Gazette, issued monthly, included lists of insolvencies and stages in the process whereby the insolvents petitioned for release from debtors' prison. The insolvent is generally referred to by name (surname first), address and trade. This is the index to the names of the insolvents, from the issues from January to December 1850.PUDDEFOOT. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
|
Insolvents
(1855) Insolvency notices for England and Wales: insolvency often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost linksPUDDEFOOT. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
|
Traders and professionals in London
(1856) The Post Office London Directory for 1856 includes this 'Commercial and Professional Directory', recording over 100,000 individuals. PUDDEFOOT. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
|
Patentees of New Inventions
(1857) Abstracts of British patents for new inventions applied for and granted from 1 January to 31 December 1857: giving date, name and address, and short description of the invention. It is then stated whether 'Letters patent sealed' or 'Provisional protection only'.PUDDEFOOT. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
|
Long-stay Paupers in Workhouses: Hemel Hempstead
(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). PUDDEFOOT. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
|
Patentees of New Inventions
(1862) Abstracts of British patents for new inventions applied for and granted from 1 January to 31 December 1862: giving date, name and address, and short description of the invention. It is then stated whether 'Letters patent sealed' or 'Provisional protection only'.PUDDEFOOT. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
|
Patentees of New Inventions
(1863) Abstracts of British patents for new inventions applied for and granted from 1 January to 31 December 1863: giving date, name and address, and short description of the invention. It is then stated whether 'Letters patent sealed' or 'Provisional protection only'.PUDDEFOOT. 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.