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The surviving Petitions, all made in the years 1784-1854, have a very uneven geographical coverage. They relate mainly to London, Liverpool and the smaller ports, but places like Cardiff, Bristol, Glasgow, Hull and Newcastle are hardly represented. | The surviving Petitions, all made in the years 1784-1854, have a very uneven geographical coverage. They relate mainly to London, Liverpool and the smaller ports, but places like Cardiff, Bristol, Glasgow, Hull and Newcastle are hardly represented. | ||
These Petitions, originally in date order, had providentially been presented to the Society of Genealogists by the Corporation of Trinity House in 1934. They were sorted into alphabetical order and bound into 102 volumes. Additional petitions were then found, sorted and bound into eleven volumes. The Society of Genealogists published a calendar of the two series (most often giving the name and age of the petitioner, the name of the spouse, residence and year) with an index of surnames as ''The Trinity House Petitions: a calendar of the records of the Corporation of Trinity House, London, in the library of the Society of Genealogists ''(1987) [ | These Petitions, originally in date order, had providentially been presented to the Society of Genealogists by the Corporation of Trinity House in 1934. They were sorted into alphabetical order and bound into 102 volumes. Additional petitions were then found, sorted and bound into eleven volumes. The Society of Genealogists published a calendar of the two series (most often giving the name and age of the petitioner, the name of the spouse, residence and year) with an index of surnames as ''The Trinity House Petitions: a calendar of the records of the Corporation of Trinity House, London, in the library of the Society of Genealogists ''(1987) [FS Library book 942 U3]. The volume may be consulted for fees online at http://www.findmypast.co.uk/search/trinity-house-calendars/. The Petitions were microfilmed [FHL films 395554-395610] and the originals are now at the London Metropolitan Archives but ‘Not available for general access’. | ||
Received by the Society with the Petitions were a group of apprenticeship indentures of seamen, 1780 and 1818-45 (mentioned above), and a group of miscellaneous papers, mostly baptismal and marriage certificates, which seem to relate to pension and almshouse applications made between 1790 and 1890, the majority in the period 1830-80. Short abstracts of the indentures and of these other documents were made and published in the printed calendar mentioned above. These records are now at the London Metropolitan Archives and are now classed as ‘Not available for general access’. They have not been microfilmed for the Family History Library. | Received by the Society with the Petitions were a group of apprenticeship indentures of seamen, 1780 and 1818-45 (mentioned above), and a group of miscellaneous papers, mostly baptismal and marriage certificates, which seem to relate to pension and almshouse applications made between 1790 and 1890, the majority in the period 1830-80. Short abstracts of the indentures and of these other documents were made and published in the printed calendar mentioned above. These records are now at the London Metropolitan Archives and are now classed as ‘Not available for general access’. They have not been microfilmed for the Family History Library. | ||
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