Subscribers to the Racing Calendar: Buckinghamshire
(1777) The extensive subscription list for 1777 to the annual Racing Calendar first gives the names of the nobility, then the other subscribers county by county for England, with separate sections for Wales, Ireland and Scotland. Initials or christian names are stated only occasionally.GOTT. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Clerks and apprentices
(1780) 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. 3 January to 30 December 1780. IR 1/30GOTT. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Masters of clerks and apprentices
(1783) 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. 2 January to 21 June 1783. IR 1/31GOTT. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Soldiers, administrators, refugees and merchants in America
(1783) These are the headquarters papers of sir Guy Carleton, British commander-in-chief at the end of the American war of independence. Many of the individuals recorded were part of the British military administration, but others are refugees and merchants whose lives had been disrupted by the conflict. These records cover April to December 1783.GOTT. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Brides and grooms
(1785) The Daily Universal Register of London carried marriage notices among the general news of the day. May 1785GOTT. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Victims of crime
(1785) The Daily Universal Register of London carried many reports of crimes both as immediate news and in reports of cases in the courts, including the Old Bailey. This is the index to the victims of the crimes. May 1785GOTT. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Clerks and apprentices
(1787) 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. 2 January to 31 December 1787. IR 1/33GOTT. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Apprentices and clerks
(1791) 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. 5 March to 31 December 1791. IR 1/35GOTT. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
(1793) 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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Inhabitants of Scarborough in the North Riding of Yorkshire
(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.
GOTT. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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