Insolvents
(1854) Insolvency notices for England and Wales: insolvency often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost linksPAGET. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Soldiers Wounded in the Battle of Alma: 47th Regiment of Foot
(1854) The commander of the British forces transmitted to the Secretary-at-War this return of casualties among non-commissioned officers and men sustained at and after the battle of Alma, 20 September 1854. This was the opening battle of the Crimean War, in which British forces seized the heights above the river Alma. The returns include those killed and wounded in the battle; missing; dead of wounds, and since dead, to 3 October 1854.PAGET. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Trustees and Solicitors
(1854) Trustees appointed to take over bankrupts' estates in England and Wales, and their solicitors. Trustees are often friends or relatives of the bankrupt: and/or principal creditors
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Boys entering Harrow School
(1855) This First Volume of the Second Series of the Harrow School Register was edited by J. H. Stogdon and published in 1925. The boys are listed by term of entrance, and then alphabetically by surname and christian names (in bold). Next, in brackets and in italics, is the school house to which he belonged - or, H. B. indicating a day boy whose family lived in Harrow. Stogdon then gives the father's surname and initials, and address. In cases where the boy was prominent in sports at school, or won academic prizes, scholarships &c., that is given; then the year of leaving the school; and a synopsis of his career, so far as known.
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Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
(1855) 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. July to December 1855.
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Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
(1855) 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. January to June 1855
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Members of Hull Subscription Library
(1855) The list of the members of Kingston-upon-Hull Subscription Library is arranged by year of admission (the earliest surviving being in 1798): full names are given (except for ladies); no addresses, except in case of members living in outlying villages. PAGET. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Patentees of New Inventions
(1855) Abstracts of British patents for new inventions applied for and granted from 1 January to 31 December 1855: giving date, name and address, and short description of the invention. It is then stated whether 'Letters patent sealed' or 'Provisional protection only'.PAGET. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Petitioning Creditors and Solicitors
(1855) Principal creditors petitioning to force a bankruptcy (but often close relatives of the bankrupt helping to protect his assets): and solicitors: in England and WalesPAGET. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Unclaimed Dividends
(1855) The unclaimed dividend books of the Bank of England, containing names and descriptions of over 20,000 persons entitled to many millions of pounds accumulated in the bank unclaimed during the 18th and 19th centuries, mostly in consols and annuities, and transferred to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt.
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