I would imagine the case would be in the London Gazette, but that might not > give details. Just the basics. as in 'Farmer, New Style' -'we'll all be Gazetted' > local papers are the thing (where the polulation is small enough). They often quote actual words and certainly make what would otherwise be libellous comments on the personal habits and aspirations of the ubnfortunate family. The problem is that this is the London area (even if Middlesex then) and newspapers were smaller, so a scandal in high life or even a natural disaster would push and 'ordinary' bankruptcy into a small corner. They did always record the fact -and newspapers in other areas copied, so that none of their residentsd were conned into dealing with the bankrupt. EVE Author of The McLaughlin Guides for Family Historians Secretary, Bucks Genealogical Society