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(1835-1836)
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 this 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. Each seaman was assigned a number, and the names were arranged in the register by first two letters of the surname (our sample scan shows one of the pages for 'Sm'); in addition, an attempt was made to separate out namesakes by giving the first instance of a name (a), the second (b), and so on. But no effective method was devised to prevent the same man being registered twice as he appeared in a second crew list; moreover, the original crew lists were clearly difficult for the registry clerks to copy, and some of the surname spellings appear to be corrupted. A parliamentary committee decided that the system devised did not answer the original problem, and this register was abandoned after less than two years: but it is an apparently comprehensive source for British merchant seamen in 1835 to 1836. The register records the number assigned to each man; his name; age; birthplace; quality (master, captain, mate, 2nd mate, mariner, seaman, fisherman, cook, carpenter, boy &c.); and the name and home port 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 (for instance, Charleston and Stockholm appear in the sample scan). The final column 'How disposed of' is rarely used, and indicates those instances where a man died, was discharged, or deserted his ship during the voyage.CHALLIS. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Trustees for the Municipal Charities of the Borough of Reading
(1838)
J. F. Le Cointe, Master of Reports and Entries in Chancery, of the Report-Office, made this return 23 July 1838 of the names of persons appointed as trustees for municipal charities of the cities and boroughs of England and Wales. The information is given in tabular form, listing the names of cities and boroughs; full names of trustees appointed; number of trustees; and date of appointment, mostly in 1836 or 1837.CHALLIS. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Bankruptcy information
(1839)
Abstract of the circumstances causing a bankruptcy in England and Wales: assets, liabilities &c.CHALLIS. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| People mentioned in cases heard in the Court of Queen's Bench
(1839)
John Leycester Adolphus of the Inner Temple and Thomas Flower Ellis of the Middle Temple, barristers-at-law, prepared reports of cases argued and determined in the Court of Queen's Bench. This is the volume for Hilary term and vacation of the 2nd year of queen Victoria, but also including the long and important case Stockdale against Hansard (as to whether the printing of parliamentary papers was subject to the laws of libel). They normally set out for each case a narrative of the evidence presented to the court; then the arguments of the counsel for both sides, usually with reference to legal precedents; and then the judgment, in detail. The evidence in these cases is often extensive, and of historical and genealogical interest; the incidents leading up to the suits usually took place in the preceding ten years or so, but in some cases the narrative stretches back much further, even to the 12th century. This is the index to the stray names, not of the principal parties or the lawyers involved, mentioned in the circumstances of the cases.CHALLIS. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| 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 linksCHALLIS. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Officers of the British Army on Foreign Half-Pay
(1840)
The New Annual Army List, corrected to 7 February 1840, was published in London by Lieut. H. G. Hart. The section entitled 'Officers on the Retired Full Pay and Half Pay' lists all such officers, by rank from captain down to ensign, with paymasters, adjutants, quarter-masters, medical staff and chaplains. (Officers above the rank of captain were retained in the main list of Field Officers). These lists are annotated with dates of successive ranks, when placed on half-pay, and the name of the regiment, &c., and with symbols indicating the officers present at Trafalgar (T), in the Peninsula or the South of France (P), and Waterloo (W). Names of officers on retired full-pay are given in italics. The list covers not only the regiments of the line, but also the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, Royal Marines, Staff, and Military Departments.CHALLIS. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Bankrupts' Assignees
(1841)
Assignees of bankrupts' estates (usually principal creditors and/or close relatives of the bankrupt) in England and WalesCHALLIS. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Churchmen and church officers in England and Wales
(1841)
The Royal Kalendar has an extensive ecclesiastical section, giving the names of officials at the College of Doctors of (church) Law, the Ecclesiastical Courts, and the ecclesiastical law proctors; deans, chancellors, archdeacons, canons and prebendaries for all the dioceses of England and Wales; the officers and fellows (being all the parish priests within and without the walls of London) of Sion College; and the incumbents of the parishes within ten miles of London (annotated to show whether rectors, vicars or curates, and with the net annual revenue of each cure); the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England; the Committee of Council on Education; and then the officers of the various religious societies (Queen Anne's Bounty Office, and First-Fruits and Tenths Offices; Commissioners for Building Additional Churches; Society for Promoting the Building of Churches and Chapels; Anniversary Festival of the Sons of the Clergy; Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts; Dissenters' Library; Society for Maintaining and Educating Poor Orphans of Clergymen of the Established Church; Society for Promoting Religious Knowledge; Patrons of the Anniversary of the Charity Schools; Naval and Military Bible Society; Society for the Support and Encouragement of Sunday Schools throughout the British Dominions; Society for Extending the Christian Faith in the British West India Islands; London Missionary Society; Religious Tract Society; Society for the Suppression of Vice; British and Foreign Bible Society; Church Missionary Society; Prayer Book and Homily Society; Dr Bray's Institution; London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews; National Society for the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church; Church Pastoral Aid Society; European Missionary Society; British Society for Promoting the Religious Principles of the Reformation; and the Protestant Association).CHALLIS. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| English academics
(1841)
Professors and officials of the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and London, are listed in the Royal Kalendar.
CHALLIS. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Officers and officials of English hospitals
(1841)
The Royal Kalendar lists patrons, governors, officers and staff of the hospitals and infirmaries in and near London: Saint Bartholomew's; the Bridewell and Bethlem; St Thomas's; Emanuel; Asylum for Poor French Protestants; Westminster Hospital; Guy's; Bancroft's Hospital; St George's; the Foundling Hospital; the London Hospital; the Hospital for Casual Smallpox and Vaccination; Lock Hospital; Middlesex Hospital; the British Lying-in Hospital for Married Women; the City of London Lying-in Hospital; St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics; Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital; the Asylum for French Orphans; the General Lying-in Hospital; the Jews Hospital; Seamen's Hospital Society; Magdalen Hospital; London Fever Hospital; Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital; Royal Sea Bathing Infirmary (at Westbrook near Margate); Royal Infirmary for Diseases of the Eye; Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital; Infirmary for Asthma, Consumption and other Diseases of the Lungs; Charing Cross Hospital and Medical College; the Royal Metropolitan Hospital for Children; the Royal Maternity Charity for delivering Poor Married Women at their own Habitations; the General Dispensary for Relief of the Poor; Westminster General Dispensary; London Dispensary; Finsbury Dispensary; the Eastern Dispensary; the Public Dispensary; Marylebone General Dispensary; Queen Adelaide and British Ladies Lying-in Institution; the City Dispensary; the Western Dispensary; Surrey Dispensary; Tower Hamlets Dispensary; Bloomsbury Dispensary; the National Truss Society; the Rupture Society for the Supply of Trusses to the Indigent Poor; the City of London Truss Society; the National Vaccine Establishment; the Charitable Fund and Dispensary for Relieving the Sick Poor at their own Habitations with Medicines and Pecuniary Aid; the Northern Dispensary; the Royal Infirmary for Children; the Royal Dispensary for the Diseases of the Ear, and the Deaf and Dumb; the Royal Jennerian and London Vaccine Institution for the Extermination of Smallpox, for Gratuitous Vaccination, and Keeping up a Genuine Ichor; and St George's and St James's Dispensary.CHALLIS. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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