Members of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts &c.
(1766) A List of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, 18 August 1766.SETREE. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Apprentices and clerks
(1792) 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 1792. IR 1/35SETREE. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
(1798) 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.
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Masters of apprentices and clerks
(1804) 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 1804. IR 1/39SETREE. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Traders and professionals in London
(1805) Holden's Triennial Directory for 1805 to 1807 includes this 'London Alphabet of Businesses, Professions, &c.': coverage is good; about 30,000 individuals are recorded.SETREE. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankrupts and solicitors
(1810) English bankrupts and their solicitors, as reported in the European Magazine. July to December 1810.
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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.SETREE. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Deaths, Marriages, Bankrupts, Dividends and Patents
(1820-1821) 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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Unclaimed Dividends
(1855) The unclaimed dividend books of the Bank of England, containing names and descriptions of over 20,000 persons entitled to many millions of pounds accumulated in the bank unclaimed during the 18th and 19th centuries, mostly in consols and annuities, and transferred to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt.
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Pupil Teachers training to become mistresses in Elementary Schools
(1875) The Education Department set examinations for candidates for admission into training colleges, and to become teachers. This is the class list (in order of merit) of the men who took the examination to become mistresses in elementary schools at Christmas 1875. The candidates' names are listed alphabetically by surname within each division, with school in which engaged (N. for National School, Ch. Church of England, B. British School, W. Wesleyan, R. Roman Catholic, P. Parochial, Bd. Board School, Indl. Industrial School). (The sample scan is from a general class list for schoolmistresses)SETREE. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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