Bankruptcy

[casram]

I have just discovered one my ancestors Charles Broadist was declared bankrupt in 1853. The following appeared in The Jurist:
       insolvent debtors who have filed their petitions in the Court 
       of Bankruptcy and have obtained an interim order for 
       protection from process:
            Charles Broadist, Oxford, cook, 24 Jan at 11, County
            Court of Oxfordshire

Does anyone know how I can find out more please?

Carolyn

[behindthefrogs]

Have you looked in the London Gazette?  You can often trace the various stages of a banruptcy in there.

http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/

and possibly the gentlemans magazine

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/

and of course the local paper.

David

[casram]

thanks for the links.  I will follow them up - the local paper is more difficult, it is not on line and I am in Canada.


Carolyn
Apologies for the duplicated message, my mouse finger slipped and I can't work out how to erase a message once posted

[newburychap]

thanks for the links.  I will follow them up - the local paper is more difficult, it is not on line and I am in Canada.

Jackson's Oxford Journal is online at the British Libraries new C19th newspaper database if you can get access to it.

[casram]

Thanks for that info - I have discovered I can access through being an OU student and have just spent a happy morning browsing.


Carolyn