Apprentices
(1773) Apprenticeship indentures and clerks' articles were subject to a 6d or 12d per pound stamp duty (late payment of the 6d rate attracted double duty (D D) of 12d): 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. 2 January to 2 November 1773SAMBOURNE. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Masters of apprentices and clerks
(1794) 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. 2 January to 31 December 1794. IR 1/36SAMBOURNE. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Inhabitants of Wakefield in the West Riding of Yorkshire
(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.
SAMBOURNE. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Hertfordshire Sessions
(1752-1799) Incidents from the Hertfordshire Sessions Books and Minute Books. These cover a wide range of criminal and civil business for the county: numerically, the most cases (362) concerned assaults and rioting, and larceny (378), but there is a large variety of other matter, as extensive as the jurisdiction of the courts. These highly condensed abstracts of the entries were prepared by William le Hardy, and published for the County Council in 1935. SAMBOURNE. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
(1808) 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.
SAMBOURNE. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Dissolutions of Partnerships
(1835) Trade partnerships dissolved, or the removal of one partner from a partnership of several traders
SAMBOURNE. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Petitioning Creditors and Solicitors
(1835) Principal creditors petitioning to force a bankruptcy (but often close relatives of the bankrupt helping to protect his assets): and solicitorsSAMBOURNE. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Dissolutions of Partnerships
(1840) Trade partnerships dissolved, or the removal of one partner from a partnership of several traders, in England and Wales
SAMBOURNE. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Railway Subscription Contracts
(1846) £121,255,374 0s 8d was promised by about 8,000 subscribers of more than £2,000 to the nearly 556 railway bills deposited in the Private Bill Office during the Session of Parliament for 1846. This alphabetical list gives the full names of the subscribers (surname first), description (i. e., occupation), place of abode, a numerical reference to the title of the railway, the amount subscribed to each, and total. There is a separate key to the titles of the railways.SAMBOURNE. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Traders and professionals in London
(1851) The Post Office London Directory for 1851 includes this 'Commercial and Professional Directory', recording about 80,000 individuals. SAMBOURNE. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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