These transcriptions are all taken from original documents held by Sheffield Archives and Local Studies and cover many different types of events. Specifically, we publish the following collections in this single dataset:
- Apprentices, 1676-1833
- Bradfield Lent Book, 1558
- Bradfield Workhouse admissions and discharges, 1818-1849
- Cemetery Rd Congregational Church subscriber, 1873
- Corn loan guarantors, 1795
- Deakin Institution annual report, 1863
- Deakin Institution list of governors, 1867
- Dungworth School, Sheffield, exam schedule, 1876-1895
- Ecclesall Bierlow Workhouse, register of inmates, 1812-1915
- Ecclesall National School exam schedule, 1844-1890
- Gales & Martin’s Directory of Sheffield, 1787
- J. Robinson's Directory of Sheffield, 1797
- List of able poor, 1843
- List of Members of Bradfield Game Association, 1838
- List of papist estates, 1715
- List of paupers, 1751-1808
- List of pupil teachers, 1877-1881
- List of subscribers to new Coffee House, 1795
- List of Tontine Inn subscribers, 1785
- Norton Free School, Sheffield, exam schedules, 1876-1897
- Petition of the Catholic inhabitants of Sheffield, 1815
- Register of canal boats, 1878-1924
- Removal orders, 1701-1844
- Settlement certificates, 1700-1810
- Sheffield in 1797
- Sheffield flood, list of dead and missing, 1864
- Sheffield Highways assessment, 1711
- Sheffield, Nether Chapel Membership list, 1845
- Sheffield & Rotherham banks resolution, 1825
- Sheffield & Rotherham Red Book & Almanac, 1870-1885
- Sheffield Sunday School, Band of Hope programme, 1912
- Sketchley’s Sheffield Directory, 1774
- Slaughterhouse agreement, 1750-1780
- Society for bettering the conditions of the Poor in Sheffield, appeal for funds, 1818
- Upton Colliery signing-in book, 1936-1939
- Vickers Ltd training record, 1911-1930
- Whiston indentures, 1728-1738
There is a lot of information here, with the workhouse collections taking up the lion’s share, and some inmates appearing on multiple pages.
Each record also provides a link back to Sheffield Archives and Local Studies so that you can enquire about obtaining copies of the original images.