Bankrupts
(1806-1807) William Smith's abstracts of bankruptcy certificates and dividends for England and Wales from July 1806 to December 1807. Bankruptcy causes abrupt changes in people's lives, and is often the reason for someone appearing suddenly in a different location or in a different occupation.HARPER. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankrupts
(1806-1807) William Smith's abstracts of bankruptcies for England and Wales from July 1806 to December 1807. Bankruptcy causes abrupt changes in people's lives, and is often the reason for someone appearing suddenly in a different location or in a different occupation.HARPER. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bedfordshire Freeholders and Occupiers: Eaton Socon
(1807) A poll for two knights of the shire for the county of Bedford, was taken at Bedford from 11 to 22 May 1807, the candidates being Francis Pym esquire (1138 votes), the Rt Hon Richard Fitzpatrick (1084) and John Osborn esquire (1069). The poll book is arranged by hundred, and then by parish or township, giving the freeholders' names, residence, 'of what the freehold consists' (e. g. H. & L. for house and land), the occupier, and the vote cast. Non-voters are not listed: but at the end of each hundred there is a list of rejected votes, giving full name of voter, situation of the property, ground of rejection, and candidates for whom the votes were tendered.HARPER. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Dissolutions of Partnerships: Glasgow (1807) Official notices gazetted in Edinburgh in January 1807
HARPER. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Wesleyan Methodist preachers on trial
(1807-1808) After three years 'on trial' new Wesleyan Methodist preachers were admitted into full connexion with the church: lists of the ministers on trial in England and Ireland were published in the church's annual minutes.HARPER. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Wesleyan Methodist preachers' widows
(1807-1808) The Wesleyan Methodist church's Merciful Fund provided annuities for preachers' widows, as well as other payments to retired clergy, widows and other dependants in need. These are listed in the annual minutes. Particularly useful is the fact that, after a widow remarried, her first married surname and her new surname were both given.HARPER. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
(1808) 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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Master Printers in London
(1808) 'The Compositor's of Pressman's Guide to the Art of Printing', published in London in 1808, includes this alphabetical List of the Master Printers, giving surname and address (often with street number).
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Subscribers to Felicia Dorothea Browne's Poems
(1808) Poems, by Felicia Dorothea Browne, published in Liverpool in 1808, attracted a wide subscription list, headed by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, and Her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia of Gloucester. Although most of the subscribers were from London or Liverpool, there are many from elsewhere in the country. The names are arranged by initial letter of surname, each letter being headed by the names of nobility; christian names are rare, most surnames being prefixed by Mr., Mrs. or Miss. Many names are given addresses, or at least general locations, in italics. HARPER. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Wesleyan Methodist preachers
(1808) A comprehensive list of Wesleyan Methodist ministers arranged by station and circuit in Britain, Ireland and abroad, was prepared each year at the church's annual conference. This includes supernumeraries and missionary preachers.HARPER. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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