 Masters and Apprentices
(1716)
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 father's name and address, as well as details of the date and length of the apprenticeship. 1 January to 2 August 1716.STAYT. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Gloucestershire Freeholders and Tenants: Bledington
(1776)
The election of a knight of the shire to represent the county of Gloucester in Parliament began 6 May and continued until 17 May 1776, the Hon. George Cranfield Berkeley and William Bromley Chester, esq., being the candidates. The franchise was for adult males possessing freehold worth 40s or more per annum. This poll book lists all voters, arranged by hundred and then by township according to the place where their freehold lay. The voter's full name is given (surname first); place of abode; of what the freehold consists (such as messuage and lands); in whose tenure; and how his vote was cast.STAYT. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Gloucestershire Freeholders and Tenants: Westcote
(1776)
The election of a knight of the shire to represent the county of Gloucester in Parliament began 6 May and continued until 17 May 1776, the Hon. George Cranfield Berkeley and William Bromley Chester, esq., being the candidates. The franchise was for adult males possessing freehold worth 40s or more per annum. This poll book lists all voters, arranged by hundred and then by township according to the place where their freehold lay. The voter's full name is given (surname first); place of abode; of what the freehold consists (such as messuage and lands); in whose tenure; and how his vote was cast.STAYT. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Masters of apprentices and clerks
(1793)
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. 17 June to 31 December 1793. IR 1/36STAYT. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Inhabitants of Woodstock in Oxfordshire
(1790-1797)
The provincial sections of the Universal British Directory include lists of gentry and traders from each town and the surrounding countryside, with names of local surgeons, lawyers, postmasters, carriers, &c. (the sample scan here is from the section for Nottingham). The directory started publication in 1791, but was not completed for some years, and the provincial lists, sent in by local agents, can date back as early as 1790 and as late as 1797.
STAYT. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Shareholders of the Stourbridge and Kidderminster Bank
(1838)
The provincial banks of England and Wales made annual returns to the Stamp Office of their proprietors or shareholders. These returns, registered in March 1838, from the 103 banks then in existence, contain the full names and addresses of nearly 30,000 shareholders.STAYT. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Inhabitants of Bayton in Worcestershire
(1868)
Gentry, farmers and traders listed in J. E. R. Kelly's Post Office Directory of Worcestershire. (The sample scan is of the section for the little parish of Hadzor)STAYT. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Shorthand Writers
(1885)
Lists of members of the Phonetic Society, reports of Shorthand Writers Association and other meetings, news and advertisements, from the Phonetic Journal.STAYT. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Debtors
(1887)
County Court Judgments in England and Wales. January to March 1887STAYT. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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