The East India Company records on this day mention several individuals from Calcutta of European origin who were “insolvent debtors” seeking relief.

The records, available on www.thegazette.co.uk and dated August 4, 1847, East India-House, state: “The Court of Directors of the East India Company hereby give notice, that they have received a Calcutta Gazette, containing the undermentioned notice of a petition filed in the Court for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors there, by the insolvent applying for his final discharge, under the provisions of the Act of the 4th and 6th William the Fourth, cap. 79:

Samuel Woodward, heretofore of Calcutta, milliner, under the style and firm of Mesdames Woodward and Company. Date of Gazette, containing notice, May 12, 1847.

James C. Melvill, Secretary. East India-House.”

This is followed by the mention of several other debtors seeking relief in court “under the provisions of the 9th George 4th, cap. 73”.

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