Many websites give information about the various trades and occupations our ancestors followed. Apprentice records will list those who are indentured and the nature of the role. If you are seeking information in a specific occupation please try the Occupations search page.
Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
Title: | Ancestry's Articles of Clerkship, 1756-1874 |
Link: | Ancestry's Articles of Clerkship, 1756-1874 |
Description: | Ancestry's Articles of Clerkship, 1756-1874 |
Extra Info: | This database contains records associated with articles of clerkship for young men apprenticed to attorneys for the years 1756-1874. |
Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
Title: | Apprentices Of Great Britain |
Link: | http://www.findmypast.co.uk/search/apprentices-of-great-britain/ |
Description: | Apprentices Of Great Britain |
Extra Info: | These records are abstracts from tax records kept by the Inland Revenue. |
Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records |
Title: | British and European Adventurers in Gran Colombia |
Link: | https://hispanic-anglosphere.com/2018/08/23/record... |
Description: | British and European Adventurers in Gran Columbia 1810-1830 some up to 1890 |
Extra Info: | Also lists nationality, with date of birth and occupation on some records. PDF file format. |
Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records |
Title: | British Transport Police Website |
Link: | https://www.btp.police.uk/police-forces/british-tr... |
Description: | British Transport Police Website |
Extra Info: | Includes details of some murders and a rogues gallery. |
Classification: | Information, Companies / Employee and Union Lists, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
Title: | BT Digital Archives |
Link: | http://www.digitalarchives.bt.com/Calmview/ |
Description: | British Telecom Digital Archives |
Extra Info: | Search thousands of documents, books, objects, images and films on subjects spanning the development of telecommunications, from the birth of the electric telegraph in the 1830s to the explosion of the internet and the rise of broadband Britain. |
Classification: | Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records |
Title: | Capital Punishment UK |
Link: | http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/ |
Description: | Capital Punishment UK - The Resource Site for the History of Capital Punishment |
Extra Info: | Includes the histories of 'hanging' prisons. |
Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Travellers / Romany / Canal Folk |
Title: | Circus Historical Society |
Link: | https://circushistory.org/ |
Description: | Circus Historical Society - 250 years of circus. |
Extra Info: | A major resource for the history of the circus, although it mainly covers the US. |
Classification: | Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Photographs / Pictures |
Title: | Coal Mining History Resource Centre |
Link: | http://web.archive.org/web/20160305062046/http://w... |
Description: | Coal Mining History Resource Centre |
Extra Info: | An archived copy of a site that is no longer available. Most information still seems to be available, although the layout is not good in parts. Search does not work. May be slow to load. Includes picture of the mines and details of the mines rescue crews. |
Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
Title: | Discover your ancestors' occupations |
Link: | Discover your ancestors' occupations with Ancestry.co.uk |
Description: | Discover your ancestors' occupations with Ancestry.co.uk |
Extra Info: | Professional and organizational directories were often published specifically those engaged in a specific profession or those involved in a professional, ethnic, political, fraternal, or military organization. |
Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Information, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
Title: | East India Company Ships |
Link: | https://eicships.threedecks.org/ |
Description: | Information on the Ships, Voyages and Seafarers of the East India Company's Mercantile Services |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Newspapers, School / Educational Records / Alumni, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | England Data from Ancestry |
Link: | England Data from Ancestry |
Description: | England Data Collection from Ancestry |
Extra Info: | Includes Emmigrants and Immigrants; Numerous Directories; Who's Who in the World, 1910-1911; England & Wales, Criminal Registers, 1791-1892; Numerous other records |
Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
Title: | Inner Temple Admissions Database |
Link: | https://archives.innertemple.org.uk/ |
Description: | Inner Temple Admissions Database |
Extra Info: | Online biographical information about past members of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, one of the four London-based Inns of Court. Many records include father's name and address. |
Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
Title: | Mechanical Engineer Records, 1847-1930 |
Link: | Mechanical Engineer Records, 1847-1938 |
Description: | Ancestry's Mechanical Engineer Records, 1847-1938 |
Extra Info: | This database contains documents relating to membership in the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1847-1930. |
Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
Title: | Merchant Navy Crew Lists 1861-1913 |
Link: | http://www.findmypast.co.uk/clip-crew-lists-search-start.action |
Description: | Search Crew Lists 1861-1913 |
Extra Info: | The crew lists 1861-1913 contain indexes to around 30,000 lists of crew members on board vessels: around 270,000 records of individual crewmen. |
Classification: | Religious Lists / Records, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
Title: | Methodist Heritage |
Link: | http://www.methodistheritage.org.uk/ |
Description: | Telling the Story of the People Called Methodists. |
Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
Title: | Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America |
Link: | https://www.themusichallguild.com/ |
Description: | Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America |
Extra Info: | Includes a database of artistes, many with photographs. |
Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
Title: | National Archives - Online Merchant Navy Indexes and Records |
Link: | https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your... |
Description: | National Archives - Online Merchant Navy Indexes and Records |
Extra Info: | Online Merchant Navy indexes and records. |
Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
Title: | National Archives - Online Navy Records and Indexes |
Link: | https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your... |
Description: | National Archives - Online Navy Records and Indexes |
Extra Info: | Includes medals awarded to merchant seamen in WWI and WWII, also an index to seamen's names 1860 -1867, and more. |
Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
Title: | National Archives - WWI Merchant Seamen's Medals |
Link: | https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your... |
Description: | National Archives - WWI Merchant Seamen's Medals |
Extra Info: | Scroll down the page. Campaign medals issues to merchant seamen in world war one. Free to search, but pay to view medal cards. |
Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
Title: | National Archives - WWII Merchant Seamen's Medals |
Link: | https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your... |
Description: | National Archives - WWII Merchant Seamen's Medals |
Extra Info: | Campaign medals issues to merchant seamen in world war two. Free to search, but pay to view medal cards. |
Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Photographs / Pictures, Travellers / Romany / Canal Folk |
Title: | National Fairground and Circus Archive |
Link: | https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/nfca |
Description: | Collections at the National Fairground and Circus Archive |
Extra Info: | The NFCA collection is one of the leading repositories in the world for material relating to all aspects of travelling popular entertainment. The Archive holds 150,000 photographic images, 4,000 books and journals and over 20,000 items of ephemera. |
Classification: | Information, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
Title: | Old Occupations of England |
Link: | https://web.archive.org/web/20220129151438/http://... |
Description: | Old Occupations |
Extra Info: | An archived copy of a site that is no longer active, however the information is still available to view. Lists many old occupations and meanings, taken from census records. |
Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
Title: | Photographers of Great Britain and Ireland |
Link: | https://www.cartedevisite.co.uk/ |
Description: | Photographers of Great Britain and Ireland |
Extra Info: | Information on photographers of Great Britain and Ireland from 1840-1940, their photographs, their studios and their customers. |
Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records |
Title: | Police Roll of Honour |
Link: | https://policememorial.org.uk/ |
Description: | The National Police Officers Roll of Honour and Awards for Gallantry |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
Title: | Post Office Directory of Chemists and Druggists |
Link: | https://archive.org/details/b21466385 |
Description: | Post Office Directory of Chemists and Druggists 1876 |
Extra Info: | Online book. Covers England, Scotland, Wales and principal towns in Ireland. Includes chemical manufacturers, wholesale druggists, drysalters, patent medicine vendors and other connected trades, e.g. photographers, bottle makers, dentists and dye makers. |
Classification: | Information, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records |
Title: | Railway Work, Life and Death |
Link: | https://www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/ |
Description: | Life, Work and Death on the Railways |
Extra Info: | May be slow to load. Find out about railway worker accidents in Britain and Ireland in the later 19th and early 20th century |
Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Photographs / Pictures |
Title: | SCANTLEBURY One Name Study |
Link: | http://scantlebury.one-name.net/ |
Description: | Five centuries of Scantlebury family history |
Extra Info: | A family of builders, coastguards, mariners, farmers, labourers, seamen, tailors and artists |
Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | Scarlet Finders - British Military Nurses |
Link: | http://www.scarletfinders.co.uk/index.html |
Description: | Scarlet Finders - British Military Nurses |
Extra Info: | Includes the war diary of Matron-in-Chief, British Expeditionary Force for 1914-1919. |
Classification: | School / Educational Records / Alumni, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
Title: | Teachers' Registration Council Registers 1914-1948 |
Link: | http://www.findmypast.co.uk/search/teachers-registrations/ |
Description: | Teachers' Registration Council Registers 1914-1948 |
Extra Info: | The Teachers' Registrations give details of nearly 100,000 people who taught in England and Wales between 1870 and 1948. |
Classification: | Information, Companies / Employee and Union Lists, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Photographs / Pictures, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | The Bevin Boys Association - The Official site founded 1989 |
Link: | http://bevinboysassociation.co.uk |
Description: | The Bevin Boys Association - Archives and Information |
Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records, Travellers / Romany / Canal Folk |
Title: | The Free Encyclopedia of the International Circus |
Link: | http://www.circopedia.org/Main_Page |
Description: | A unique ongoing historical archive of the art form of the circus and its development over the past 250 years of its history. |
Classification: | Information, Companies / Employee and Union Lists, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records |
Title: | The Railways Archive |
Link: | https://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/ |
Description: | The Railways Archive |
Extra Info: | Electronic copies of original documents : Railway Law, Railway safety, Railway economics, Railway politics. |
Classification: | Newspapers, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
Title: | The Stage Archive |
Link: | https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/t... |
Description: | The Stage Archive - 125 Years of Stage History and News |
Extra Info: | Now part of British Newspaper Archive. Click on 'Find Out More' for free quick search. The 170,000+ pages provide a rich and fascinating record of changing fortunes and fashion in the world of showbusiness. Subscription required for detailed information. |
Classification: | Religious Lists / Records, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
Title: | The Surman Index Online |
Link: | http://www.english.qmul.ac.uk/drwilliams/surman/in... |
Description: | Biographical Card Index of Congregational Ministers |
Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Information, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
Title: | Three Decks - Warships in the Age of Sail |
Link: | https://threedecks.org/index.php |
Description: | This site aims to be the premier web resource for researching naval history during the Age of Sail. |
Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records |
Title: | Trinity House Calendars 1787-1854 |
Link: | https://www.findmypast.co.uk/search/trinity-house-calendars/ |
Description: | Trinity House Calendars 1787-1854 |
Extra Info: | Covering the period 1787 to 1854, most of the papers are Petitions for aid, submitted by the seaman or, often, his widow. Also includes Apprentice Indentures and Miscellaneous Papers. |
Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
Title: | Victorian Photographers of Great Britain and Ireland |
Link: | https://www.cartedevisite.co.uk/ |
Description: | Victorian Photographers of Great Britain and Ireland |
Extra Info: | Information about UK and Eire photographers from the period 1840-1940. The information is base mainly on two extensive collections - one of British and Irish portrait photographs and another of British trade directories. |
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