Merchant Seamen, Masters and Mates, Obituary
(1857)
The Mercantile Navy List and Annual Appendage to the Commercial Code of Signals for All Nations, edited by J. H. Brown, was published By Authority in 1857. It includes this Obituary of masters and mates dying or lost at sea in the previous year: with full name (surname first) and date and place of death. The sample scan is from the main list of masters and pilots.SMITH. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Patentees of New Inventions
(1857)
Abstracts of British patents for new inventions applied for and granted from 1 January to 31 December 1857: giving date, name and address, and short description of the invention. It is then stated whether 'Letters patent sealed' or 'Provisional protection only'.SMITH. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Petitioning Creditors and Solicitors
(1857)
Principal creditors petitioning to force a bankruptcy (but often close relatives of the bankrupt helping to protect his assets): and solicitorsSMITH. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Receivers of Shipwrecks: England
(1857)
The Mercantile Navy List and Annual Appendage to the Commercial Code of Signals for All Nations, edited by J. H. Brown, was published By Authority in 1857. It includes this list of Receivers of Wrecks under the Board of Trade, with port, name of receiver, office, and a description of the limits of his district. The sample scan is from the main list of masters and pilots.SMITH. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Scottish Bankrupts
(1857)
Scotch Sequestrations: bankruptcy often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost links
SMITH. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Scottish Partnerships Dissolved and Bankruptcy Proceedings
(1857)
Dissolutions of business partnerships, and proceedings in bankruptcy in ScotlandSMITH. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Steamship Surveyors' Engineers
(1857)
The Mercantile Navy List and Annual Appendage to the Commercial Code of Signals for All Nations, edited by J. H. Brown, was published By Authority in 1857. It includes this List of Surveyors of Steam Vessels appointed by the Board of Trade, port by port, describing the limits of their districts, and naming for each port the shipwright surveyors and their engineers. The sample scan is from the main list of masters and pilots.SMITH. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Trinity House Channel Pilots
(1857)
The Mercantile Navy List and Annual Appendage to the Commercial Code of Signals for All Nations, edited by J. H. Brown, was published By Authority in 1857. It includes this list of the Channel Pilots for the Port of London licensed by the Corporation of Trinity-House. The sample scan is from the main list of masters and pilots.SMITH. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Voters for Bluntisham
(1857)
A poll for the election of two knights of the shire to represent the county of Huntingdon took place 2 April 1857: the candidates were James Rust (1192 votes), Edward Fellowes (1106) and John Moyer Heathcote (1106). This poll book lists those electors who voted, described as 'freeholders', although the county franchise included not only male freeholders of 40s a year, but also £10 copyholders and long-leaseholders, and £50 short-leaseholders and tenants. The names are arranged by parish or township, and the residence of each voter is given. Many of these freeholders did not live in the place from which they acquired the right to vote. The right-hand column indicates how they voted.SMITH. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Voters for Brampton, Huntingdonshire
(1857)
A poll for the election of two knights of the shire to represent the county of Huntingdon took place 2 April 1857: the candidates were James Rust (1192 votes), Edward Fellowes (1106) and John Moyer Heathcote (1106). This poll book lists those electors who voted, described as 'freeholders', although the county franchise included not only male freeholders of 40s a year, but also £10 copyholders and long-leaseholders, and £50 short-leaseholders and tenants. The names are arranged by parish or township, and the residence of each voter is given. Many of these freeholders did not live in the place from which they acquired the right to vote. The right-hand column indicates how they voted.SMITH. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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