Traders and professionals in London
(1851) The Post Office London Directory for 1851 includes this 'Commercial and Professional Directory', recording about 80,000 individuals. LEYSHON. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Insolvents
(1856) Insolvency notices for England and Wales: insolvency often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost linksLEYSHON. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Patentees of New Inventions
(1859) Abstracts of British patents for new inventions applied for and granted from 1 January to 31 December 1859: giving date, name and address, and short description of the invention. It is then stated whether 'Letters patent sealed' or 'Provisional protection only'.LEYSHON. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Patentees of New Inventions
(1860) Abstracts of British patents for new inventions applied for and granted from 1 January to 31 December 1860: giving date, name and address, and short description of the invention. It is then stated whether 'Letters patent sealed' or 'Provisional protection only'.LEYSHON. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Members of the Royal Agricultural Society of England
(1861) The list of members of the Royal Agricultural Society gives names and addresses: life members are indicated by a dagger. (The names of 60 members were omitted on account of their subscriptions to the society being in arrear to 31 December 1859). This list is correct to June 1861; as of 11 December of that year there were 84 life governors, 95 annual governors, 1124 life members, 3399 annual members and 17 honorary members, making a total of 4719 names, mostly of landowners and agriculturists.LEYSHON. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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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'.LEYSHON. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Brewers in South Wales
(1874) Henry Downes Miles compiled this London and Suburban Licensed Victuallers', Hotel and Tavern Keepers' Directory, which also had sections listings brewers, maltsters, hop factors, distillers and rectifiers of the United Kingdom.LEYSHON. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Shorthand Writers
(1878) Lists of members of the Phonetic Society, reports of Shorthand Writers Association and other meetings, news and advertisements, from the Phonetic Journal.LEYSHON. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Trainee Schoolmasters in England and Wales
(1878) The Education Department set examinations for candidates for admission into training colleges, and for the office of teacher. This is the list of successful male candidates from England and Wales at the examination at Midsummer 1878. The number in the first column shows order of merit in each class in the examination; then there is the name of the candidate (surname, christian name and any intermediate initial(s)), the school in which engaged, and the training college at which examined. The names of pupil teachers are shown in italics, with the 'school in which engaged' column left blank. These abbreviations are used in the names of schools: B., British; Bd., Board; Ch., Church of England; N., National; P., Parochial; R. C., Roman Catholic; U., Poor Law Union; W., Wesleyan Methodist.LEYSHON. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Debtors, Insolvents and Bankrupts
(1880) Bills of sale (binding assets to a creditor/lender), insolvencies and bankruptcies in England and Wales, July to September 1880LEYSHON. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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