Masters and Apprentices
(1730) 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. 16 March to 31 December 1730.HAXWORTH. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Masters and Apprentices
(1745) 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.HAXWORTH. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Clerks and apprentices
(1785) 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 1785. IR 1/32HAXWORTH. 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 1/35HAXWORTH. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Apprentices registered in Yorkshire
(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. There are central registers for collections of the stamp duty in London, as well as returns from collectors in the provinces. These collectors generally received duty just from their own county, but sometimes from further afield. The indentures themselves can date from a year or two earlier than this return. (The sample entry shown on this scan is taken from a Bristol return. Each entry has two scans, the other being the facing page with the details of the indenture, length of service, and payment of duty.) IR 1/66HAXWORTH. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
(1804) 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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Yorkshire West Riding Freeholders
(1817) A ballot was held at Wakefield 12 to 16 May 1817 for the choice of a new Register (registrar) for the West Riding Registry of Deeds, following the death of J. A. Busfeild esq. The candidates were Francis Hawksworth, esq. (1) and William Lister Fenton Scott esq. (2). 2544 freeholders voted, qualification being male adults in possession of at least £100 per annum. This alphabetical poll book was compiled from the scrutators' and poll clerks' books: it gives full name (surname first) and residence, as well as the situation of the qualifying freehold. Each man's name is preceded by a 1 or 2, indicating for whom his vote was cast.HAXWORTH. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Trustees and Solicitors
(1827) Trustees appointed to take over bankrupts' estates, and their solicitors. Trustees are often friends or relatives of the bankrupt: and/or principal creditors
HAXWORTH. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Dissolutions of Partnerships
(1829) Trade partnerships dissolved, or the removal of one partner from a partnership of several traders
HAXWORTH. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Dissolutions of Partnerships
(1836) Trade partnerships dissolved, or the removal of one partner from a partnership of several traders, in England and Wales
HAXWORTH. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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