Scottish Bankrupts
(1848) Scotch Sequestrations: bankruptcy often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost links
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Patentees of New Inventions
(1860) Abstracts of British patents for new inventions applied for and granted from 1 January to 31 December 1860: giving date, name and address, and short description of the invention. It is then stated whether 'Letters patent sealed' or 'Provisional protection only'.FORGIE. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Long-stay Paupers in Workhouses: Nottingham
(1861) This comprehensive return by the Poor Law Board for England and Wales in July 1861 revealed that of the 67,800 paupers aged 16 or over, exclusive of vagrants, then in the Board's workhouses, 14,216 (6,569 men, 7,647 women) had been inmates for a continuous period of five years and upwards. The return lists all these long-stay inmates from each of the 626 workhouses that had been existence for five years and more, giving full name; the amount of time that each had been in the workhouse (years and months); the reason assigned why the pauper in each case was unable to sustain himself or herself; and whether or not the pauper had been brought up in a district or workhouse school (very few had). The commonest reasons given for this long stay in the workhouse were: old age and infirm (3,331); infirm (2,565); idiot (1,565); weak mind (1,026); imbecile (997); and illness (493). FORGIE. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Patentees of New Inventions
(1863) Abstracts of British patents for new inventions applied for and granted from 1 January to 31 December 1863: giving date, name and address, and short description of the invention. It is then stated whether 'Letters patent sealed' or 'Provisional protection only'.FORGIE. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Patentees of New Inventions
(1864) Abstracts of British patents for new inventions applied for and granted from 1 January to 31 December 1864: giving date, name and address, and short description of the invention. It is then stated whether 'Letters patent sealed' or 'Provisional protection only'.FORGIE. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Patentees of New Inventions
(1866) Abstracts of British patents for new inventions applied for and granted from 1 January to 31 December 1866: giving date, name and address, and short description of the invention. It is then stated whether 'Letters patent sealed' or 'Provisional protection only'.FORGIE. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Debtors, Insolvents and Bankrupts
(1882) Bills of sale (binding assets to a creditor/lender), insolvencies and bankruptcies in England and Wales, January to March 1882FORGIE. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Scottish Debtors, Insolvents and Bankrupts
(1882) Protests on Bills of Exchange, Sequestrations and Cessio Bonorums in Scotland, October to December 1882FORGIE. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Householders in Dunoon (1886) List of householders from the West Coast Directory, arranged alphabetically by surname, christian name and address. A = Ardenadam; H Q = Hunter's Quay; I = Innellan; K = Kirn; S = Sandbank; T = Toward.
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Scottish Debtors, Insolvents and Bankrupts
(1887) Protests on Bills of Exchange, Sequestrations and Cessio Bonorums in Scotland, April to June 1887FORGIE. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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