Shareholders of the North of England 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. This bank was based in Northumberland and Durham.BESWICK. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankrupts' Assignees
(1839) Assignees of bankrupts' estates (usually principal creditors and/or close relatives of the bankrupt) in England and WalesBESWICK. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Dissolutions of Partnerships
(1839) Trade partnerships dissolved, or the removal of one partner from a partnership of several traders, in England and Wales
BESWICK. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Insolvents
(1839) Insolvency notices for England and Wales: insolvency often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost linksBESWICK. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Insolvents
(1839) Insolvency notices for England and Wales: insolvency often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost linksBESWICK. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Petitioning Creditors and Solicitors
(1839) Principal creditors petitioning to force a bankruptcy (but often close relatives of the bankrupt helping to protect his assets): and solicitorsBESWICK. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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British merchant seamen
(1835-1840) At this period, the foreign trade of ships plying to and from the British isles involved about 150,000 men on 15,000 ships; and the coasting trade about a quarter as many more. A large proportion of the seamen on these ships were British subjects, and so liable to be pressed for service in the Royal Navy; but there was no general register by which to identify them, so in 1835 parliament passed a Merchant Seamen's Registration Bill. Under this act a large register of British seamen was compiled, based on ships' crew lists gathered in British and Irish ports, and passed up to the registry in London. A parliamentary committee decided that the system devised did not answer the original problem, and the original register was abandoned after less than two years: the system was then restarted in this form, with a systematic attempt to attribute the seamen's (ticket) numbers, and to record successive voyages. The register records the number assigned to each man; his name; age; birthplace; quality (S = seaman, &c.); and the name and official number of his ship, with the date of the crew list (usually at the end of a voyage). Most of the men recorded were born in the British Isles, but not all. The system was still very cumbersome, because the names were amassed merely under the first two letters of surname; an attempt was made to separate out namesakes by giving the first instance of a name (a), the second (b), and so on. During 1840 this series of ledgers was abandoned, and a new set started with names grouped together by surname. BT 112/4BESWICK. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Electors of Swaffham
(1840) The register of electors entitled to vote in any parliamentary election for West Norfolk between 1 November 1840 and 1 November 1841 lists 7,620 freeholders arranged by hundred and within hundred by parish or township &c. In the first column, after number within the register, the elector's name is given (surname first); the second column gives place of abode; the third column the nature of qualification (such as 'owner and occupier'); and the fourth column the address of the qualifying property, in some cases with the name of the tenant or occupier.BESWICK. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Insolvents
(1840) Insolvency notices for England and Wales: insolvency often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost linksBESWICK. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Dissolutions of Partnerships
(1841) Trade partnerships dissolved, or the removal of one partner from a partnership of several traders, in England and Wales
BESWICK. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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