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, 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Newspapers, Valuation Books, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records |
| Title: | Ireland Genealogy Projects Archive |
| Link: | http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ |
| Description: | Ireland Genealogy Projects Archive |
| Extra Info: | Includes some lists of landowners, some court extracts, trade directory extracts, newspaper extracts, Royal Irish Constabulary lists and more. |
| Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
| Title: | Irish Mariners |
| Link: | http://www.irishmariners.ie/ |
| Description: | Irish Mariners |
| Extra Info: | An index of nearly 25,000 Irish born merchant seamen, many photographs, includes voyages undertaken and more. |
| 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: | Newspapers, Tithe Records, Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Northern Ireland Data from Ancestry |
| Link: | Northern Ireland Data from Ancestry |
| Description: | Northern Ireland Data Collection from Ancestry |
| Extra Info: | Includes Emigration Lists, 1833-1839; Passenger Lists, 1803-1806; Tithe Applotment Books, 1824-1837; Famine Relief Commission Papers, 1844-1847 (Free); and more... |
| 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: | 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: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
| Title: | The Royal Irish Constabulary |
| Link: | The Royal Irish Constabulary |
| Description: | The Royal Irish Constabulary, 1816-1921 |
| Extra Info: | This index is a work in progress and now contains approx. 70,000 persons. |
| 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 |
| 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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