The following databases have been added at The Original Record in the last week:
1766-1769 – Board of Stamps Apprenticeship Books: Country Collectors’ Returns
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. There are central registers for collections of the stamp duty in London, as well as returns from collectors in the provinces. These collectors generally received duty just from their own county, but sometimes from further afield. The indentures themselves can date from a year or two earlier than this return. There are returns from Abergavenny, Aylesbury, Bedford, Berkshire, Brecon, Bridgwater, Bristol, Buckinghamshire, Cambridge, Chester, Chichester, Colchester, Cornwall, Cowbridge, Denbigh, Derby, Devizes, Devon, Dover, Durham, Edinburgh, Essex, Exeter, Glamorgan, Gloucester, Huntingdon, Leicester, Lewes, Lichfield, Lincoln, Liverpool, Ludlow, Lynn, Monmouth, Norfolk, Northampton, Norwich, Nottingham, N
ewcastle-upon-Tyne, Oxford, Pembroke, Plymouth, Reading, Salop, Scotland, Shaftesbury, Shropshire, Somerset, Southampton, Sudbury, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Tiverton, Westmorland, Winchester, Woodbridge, Worcester, Yarmouth, and York, each of which has been indexed separately. IR 1/56
1883-1884 – The Law Times
Volume 76 of The Law Times, ‘The Journal of The Law and The Lawyers’, a weekly publication, runs from 3 November 1883 to 26 April 1884. Much of the journal is taken up with law reports, leading articles, &c., and the ‘Solicitors’ Department’ contains several regular features of great interest. The court lists enable us to follow the progress of cases scheduled to be heard in the high courts. Many of these cases never actually came to be heard, litigation ceasing whilst in preparation, or being resolved ‘at the door of the court’. In almost all cases the parties are referred to by surname only. The Court of Appeal heard appeals from the Chancery Division, the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division (Probate and Divorce), and the County Palatine and Stannaries Courts; from the Queen’s Bench and Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty (Admiralty) Divisions; from the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division (Admiralty cases); and from the London Bankruptcy Court. The very extensive lists of cases pending for trial or hearing in the Chancery Division are arranged by the justice appointed, and then sub-divided into categories such as ‘Casuses for Trial with Witnesses’, ‘Further Consideration’, ‘Demurrer’, ‘Non-witness Causes, Adjourned Summonses, and Special Cases.’ Cases in the Queen’s Bench Division are sub-divided into ‘New Trial Paper’, ‘Special Paper’ and ‘Crown Paper’. Cases in the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division are sub-divided into those for probate and matrimonial causes. Lists of bankrupts, liquidations by arrangement, dividends and orders of discharge extracted from the London Gazette were published each week, and these have been indexed both for the principals and their solicitors. Lists entitled ‘Creditors under 22 & 23 Vict. c. 35′ – a piece of legislation introduced to protect executors and administrators from litigation (whether from kin or from creditors) after the assets of the deceased had been distributed, by allowing the publication of notices stipulating a Last Day of Claim, absolving the estate from later demands – are therefore effectively those of the recently deceased whose affairs were in the process of being wound up; ‘Creditors under Estates in Chancery’, announces the last date by which proofs of claim had to be submitted. Indexed for principal parties and solicitors. ‘Heirs at Law and Next of Kin’ summarizes announcements from solicitors or the courts appealing for heirs to undistributed bequests or estates. There is a weekly list of Unclaimed Stock and Dividends in the Bank of England transferred to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, and which would be paid to the claimants named within three months, unless some other claimants sooner appeared. The publication includes examination results and lists of new barristers called to the bar of the inns of court. The examination pass lists include the general examinations of students of the Inns of Court, held at Lincoln’s Inn Hall 16 to 19 October 1883, 20, 21, 27, 28, 29 and 31 December, and 1 to 4 April 1884; the intermediate examination 17 January 1884; and the final examination held 15 and 16 January 1884. For student solicitors there are the Incorporated Law Society examinations for honours of candidates for admission on the roll of solicitors of the Supreme Court, in November 1883 and January 1884; preliminary examinations held 24-25 October 1883 and 8 May 1884; and the intermediate examination held 8 November 1883. There are also lists of passes in the Intermediate Examination in Laws, LL. B. and LL. D. of the University of London. Each issue listed details of professional law partnerships recently dissolved, abstracted and summarized from the London Gazette; and promotions and appointments within the profession. There is also a section of Birth, Marriage and Death announcements, and Edward Walford, M. A., provided in each issue a Legal Obituary, giving biographical notices (dwelling
particularly upon the legal careers) of recently deceased members of the profession.
1918 – Barristers
The Law List for 1918 includes this ‘List of Counsel, Special Pleaders, and Conveyancers at the Bar’. Each name is given in full, surname first; then the name of the Inn of Court as an abbreviation (G., Gray’s Inn; I., Inner Temple; L., Lincoln’s Inn; M., Middle Temple; and D. C. for Doctors’ Commons) and date at which called to the bar. Barristers in practice are usually furnished with an address, and there are some abbreviated references to judicial awards and appointments. An asterisk signifies an Equity Draughtsman and Conveyancer.
1934 – Residents of Poole, Longfleet and Parkstone
Kelly’s Directory of Bournemooth, Poole, Parkstone, Etc. includes this list of private residents in Poole, Longfleet and Parkstone (inclusive of Branksome). An asterisk before a name indicates a Parkstone postal address; a dagger, Bournemouth.
1940 – University of Ireland Members of Convocation
The University of Ireland was established by royal charter in 1908, with three constituent colleges – University College, Dublin; University College, Cork; and University College, Galway. The university calendar for 1940 includes this complete list of Members of Convocation. It is similar to the general list of graduates of the university, but not exactly the same, for it includes academic staff of the university not necessarily graduates of the same, and not all graduates registered for membership of convocation. The list gives full names (surname first), degree and year of graduation, and, importantly, full address as in 1940 – information not given in the general list. Where the current full address was not known, the last known address was given, the entry being in italics.
The Original Record now have over 9.1 million entries directly available online., with afree unlimited search. All records are hand-indexed (no OCR). You amy purchase sets of scans, or buy open access to the surname(s) of your choice, including variants. See: www.theoriginalrecord.com
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