Masters and Apprentices
(1721) 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. 2 January to 26 August 1721.HURSTHOUSE. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
(1806) 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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Cambridgeshire Voters: Wisbech
(1832) The poll on the election of three knights of the shire to serve in Parliament for the county of Cambridge, was taken at Cambridge, Royston, Newmarket, Ely, Wisbech and Whittlesea 18 and 19 December 1832. The candidates were Henry John Adeane esquire, Richard Greaves Townley esquire, Charles Philip Yorke esquire and John Walbanke Childers esquire. This poll book sets out the names of the voters in alphabetical order hundred by hundred and parish by parish. The voters' full names are stated, surname first. The right hand column records their votes. The new qualification for suffrage in the counties, after the passage of the 1832 Great Reform Bill, was the possession of a freehold estate worth 40s a year or more, a copyhold or long leasehold of £10 a year or more, or a tenancy or short leasehold of £50 a year or more.
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Recipients of the New Zealand War Medal
(1861-1871) The New Zealand War Medal was awarded for service New Zealand campaign 1861 to 1866: this further progress report issued by the medal committee in Wellington 2 September 1871 lists officers and men of the colonial forces who had made application for the medal for services rendered prior to 31 December 1866, and whose claims had been admitted by the commissioners; as well as those whose claims had been rejected (with the reason); and also those officers and men included in the rolls formed by the late commissioners whose names also appear in the lists of those granted medals by the Imperial Government.HURSTHOUSE. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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London Telegraph Clerks
(1870-1874) This list of persons irregularly admitted to the service of the Post Office from the date of the transfer of the telegraphs, 29 January 1870, to 30 September 1874, extends to 3653 names. The return gives full name (surname first, married women indicated by Mrs.); age when admitted; service to which admitted; and last previous employment.HURSTHOUSE. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Debtors
(1887) County Court Judgments in England and Wales. April to June 1887HURSTHOUSE. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Carpenters Excluded from their Union: Matlock and Matlock Bridge (1907) The 48th annual report of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, from December 1906 to December 1907, gives lists of members excluded from the union: the great majority for arrears of membership fees, but some for 'non-payment of entrance money'; 'for working contrary to the society's interest'; 'false declaration of entry'; 'imposing on the society's funds'; 'withholding the funds of the society'; 'violating rule while on sick benefit'; 'bringing the society into discredit'; and 'members who have paid up and resigned'.
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Imperial Service Medal
(1932) Awards by king George V of the Imperial Service Medal to officers of the Home Civil Service. The names are arranged alphabetically by surname and christian names, with office or rank in the service. HURSTHOUSE. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Residents of Poole, Longfleet and Parkstone
(1934) Kelly's Directory of Bournemooth, Poole, Parkstone, Etc. includes this list of private residents in Poole, Longfleet and Parkstone (inclusive of Branksome). An asterisk before a name indicates a Parkstone postal address; a dagger, Bournemouth.
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Congregationalists
(1935) Who's Who in Congregationalism gives biographical notices of accredited ministers and evangelists, lay pastors and lay officials of the Congregational church in Britain and Ireland. The notices also include the names of wives, with maiden names, and these too are included in the index here.HURSTHOUSE. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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