 Masters and Apprentices
(1730)
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. 16 March to 31 December 1730.STIDOLPH. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Masters and Apprentices
(1742)
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 31 December 1742STIDOLPH. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Apprentices
(1759)
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. 12 April to 31 December 1759.STIDOLPH. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Apprentices
(1761)
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. 1 January to 21 July 1761.STIDOLPH. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Ratepayers of Strood, Kent
(1764)
4 May 1764 this assessment was made, at 4d in the £, on 'lands and tenements in the parish of Strood, for and towards the necessary repair of the parish church', by John Boghurst and John Bowes the churchwardens and John Goldstone and Richard Otley the overseers. The assessment, recorded in Strood Church Book 'a ponderous old folio', gives the surname (sometimes with christian name too) of each tenant, the annual rent, and the rate of the assessment. STIDOLPH. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Masters of Apprentices
(1769)
Apprenticeship indentures and clerks' articles were subject to a 6d or 12d per pound stamp duty (late payment of the 6d rate attracted double duty (D D) of 12d): 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 1769.STIDOLPH. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
(1785)
Death notices and obituaries, marriage and birth notices, civil and military promotions, clerical preferments, and bankrupts, as reported in the Gentleman's Magazine. Mostly from England and Wales, but items from Ireland, Scotland and abroad.
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Subscribers to Thomas Sanderson's Original Poems: Tunbridge
(1800)
Thomas Sanderson's 'Original Poems' was published in Carlisle in 1800. The list of subscribers is arranged geographically: London; Tunbridge; Gloucester; Epsom; Exeter; Nottingham; Northampton; Cambridge; Oxford; Hertford; Carlisle; Penrith; Longtown; Hesket Newmarket; Wigton; Keswick; Durham; Newcastle; Maryport; Dublin; Edinburgh; York; and Liverpool, each including surrounding areas; Madras; and the West Indies. Where more than one copy was ordered, the number is given after the subscriber's name. At the foot of the list is this note: 'The Author cannot take leave of his friends without warmly thanking them for the generous encouragement they have given to the subscription. Their benevolence does them the more honour, as it was called forth in the favour of a Person who cannot make them any better return than mere professions of gratitude.'STIDOLPH. Cost: £4.00. | 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.STIDOLPH. Cost: £4.00. | 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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