Leg Surname Ancestry ResultsOur indexes 1000-1999 include entries for the spelling 'leg'. In the period you have requested, we have the following 36 records (displaying 31 to 36): Single Surname Subscription | | | Buying all 36 results of this search individually would cost £184.00. But you can have free access to all 36 records for a year, to view, to save and print, for £100. Save £84.00. More... |
These sample scans are from the original record. You will get scans of the full pages or articles where the surname you searched for has been found. Your web browser may prevent the sample windows from opening; in this case please change your browser settings to allow pop-up windows from this site.  Masters of apprentices and clerks
(1796)
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. 12 February to 31 December 1796. IR 1/37LEG. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Inhabitants of Shoreham in Sussex
(1790-1797)
The provincial sections of the Universal British Directory include lists of gentry and traders from each town and the surrounding countryside, with names of local surgeons, lawyers, postmasters, carriers, &c. (the sample scan here is from the section for Nottingham). The directory started publication in 1791, but was not completed for some years, and the provincial lists, sent in by local agents, can date back as early as 1790 and as late as 1797.
LEG. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
(1811)
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.
LEG. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| British merchant seamen
(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.LEG. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Inhabitants of Newington in Surrey
(1851)
The 1851 census return for St Mary Newington, Surrey, registration district: St Peter Walworth sub-district: enumeration district 2: described as: "All that Part of the Parish of St. Mary Newington, which Comprises Both sides of the Lorrimore Road, Bridge Cottages, Bridge Place, West St. (south side), Including Cottage Grove, West side of Walworth Road from West St to Carter St., Carter St. (both sides) including Walworth House". This area lay in the ecclesiastical district of St Peter Walworth, and in the borough of Lambeth. The addresses listed in the actual returns are 1 to 8 Octavius Terrace; 1 to 7 Sutherland Terrace; 2 and 4 St Georges Terrace; 1 and 7 to 11 Onslow Terrace; 2 to 8 Margaret Terrace; cottages on Lorrimore Road (including Ivey Cottage and Flora Cottage); 1 to 11 Anns Terrace; 1 to 5 Bridge Cottages; 1 to 3 Bridge Place; Field Cottage, Edina Cottage, Sylvan Cottage and Grove Cottage in West Street; 1 to 9 Cottage Grove; Harford Cottage, West Street; 2 to 10 Cottage Place; Elizabeth Cottage, West Street; 1 to 11 West Street; 1 to 17 Keens Row; 1 to 43 Carter Street; and Walworth House. HO 107/1567LEG. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| British riflemen fighting in China
(1860)
The China Medal was awarded to soldiers and sailors who took part in the prosecution of the war against the Chinese from 1856 to 1860. Separate clasps were awarded for men who had been in receipt of the China Medal of 1842; for being actually present at Canton on 28 and 29 December 1857, when that city was bombarded and finally captured; for being actually engaged in the operations which ceased with the first capture of the Taku Forts, 20 May 1858, and led to the Treaty of Tientsin; for being actually present at the capture of the Taku Forts 21 August 1860; and for being actually present before Pekin the day the gate of that city was given up to the allied (British and French) army, viz. on 13 October 1860. The 2nd battalion, the 60th (The King's Royal Rifle Corps) Regiment, based in Winchester, embarked for the Cape of Good Hope in June 1851, and after taking part in the Kaffir War, was moved to India, where it helped deal with the Mutiny. In 1860 the battalion was transferred to China. The regiment took part in the capture of the Taku Forts and that of Pekin.LEG. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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