London Traders
(1814) The fifteenth edition of The Post-Office Annual Directory includes this 'List of More than 17,000 Merchants, Traders, &c. of London, and Parts Adjacent', arranged alphabetically by surname, with trade in italics, and address.RAMSCAR. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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English and Welsh bankrupts and their solicitors
(1822) The Monthly Magazine or British Register included a section each month of Bankruptcies extracted from the London Gazette, followed by a list of dividends. These are the bankrupts (and their solicitors) listed in the 53rd volume, 1 February to 1 July 1822.RAMSCAR. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankrupts
(1827) Bankruptcy notices for England and Wales: bankruptcy often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost links
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Insolvents in Bankruptcy
(1844) Insolvency in bankruptcy notices for England and Wales: insolvency often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost linksRAMSCAR. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Patentees of New Inventions
(1855) Abstracts of British patents for new inventions applied for and granted from 1 January to 31 December 1855: giving date, name and address, and short description of the invention. It is then stated whether 'Letters patent sealed' or 'Provisional protection only'.RAMSCAR. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Patentees of New Inventions
(1858) Abstracts of British patents for new inventions applied for and granted from 1 January to 31 December 1858: giving date, name and address, and short description of the invention. It is then stated whether 'Letters patent sealed' or 'Provisional protection only'.RAMSCAR. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Long-stay Paupers in Workhouses: Strand
(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). RAMSCAR. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Patentees of New Inventions
(1868) Abstracts of British patents for new inventions applied for and granted from 1 January to 31 December 1868: giving date, name and address, and short description of the invention. It is then stated whether 'Letters patent sealed' or 'Provisional protection only'.RAMSCAR. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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