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East Riding

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The town of HULL

[Transcribed information from the early 1820s]

"HULL, or Kingston upon Hull, a town in Hullshire. Hull, with the parishes of Hessle, Kirk Ella and North Ferriby forms the distinct county called Hullshire (or the town and county of Kingston upon Hull). The town of Hull contains two parishes:

• Holy Trinity and
• St. Mary's.

The town itself is: 8 miles from Hedon, 9 from Beverley, 12 from South-Cave, 16 from Hornsea, 18 from Patrington, 25 from Howden, 39 from York; from London, by Lincoln, 174; by York. 236. --Markets, Tuesday and Friday. --Fair, Oct. 10, for horned cattle, horses, woollen-cloths, toys, &c. --Bankers, Old-Bank, Messrs. Pease and Liddell, draw on Messrs. Sir Peter Pole, Thornton, and Co. 1, Bartholomew Lane; Messrs. Pease, Harrison, and Co. draw on Messrs. Marryatt, Kay, and Co. 1, Mansion-House-Street; Messrs. R. Raikes, and Co. draw on Messrs. Curries, Raikes, and Co. 29, Cornhill; Messrs. Smiths and Thompson draw on Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, Mansion-House Place. --Pop. 28,624." (There is further information for Hull).

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"MYTON, (North and South), parliamentary wards in the parish of Hull, near Hull, and of which it may be considered a suburb. (From The National Gazetteer, 1868)"

Description and Travel

• Garry Stockdill's Yorksview website contains a description and photographs of Hull.
• There are photographs of the Hull area available for free download from the freefoto.com website.

Directories

• Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in Pigot's Directory of 1829.
• Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in Pigot's Directory of 1834.
• A transcription of Hull Trades and Professions by Alphabetical Street from Bulmer's 1892 East Yorkshire. This contains some 22,800 names, complete with house number and address, and usually with the trade/profession.
• A transcription of Hull Trades and Professions by Alphabetical Surname from Bulmer's 1892 East Yorkshire. This contains some 14,500 names, usually complete with occupation and address.
• Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in White's Directory of 1840.

Emigration and Immigration

• Nick Evans has written an article on Migration from Northern Europe to America via the Port of Hull, 1848-1914

Gazetteers

• There is further information about this parish from Pigot's 1829 Directory Yorkshire section.
• There is further information about this parish from Pigot's 1834 Directory Yorkshire section.
• There is further information about this parish from National Gazetteer 1868 Yorkshire extracts.

History

• The History and description of the town of Hull from Bulmer's History and Directory of East Yorkshire (1892). There is a total of over 470Kbytes of this data, so it's divided into several sections.
• The town of Kingston upon Hull became a city in 1897. A further history of Hull, including some of the information from this Genuki site is to be found on the Hull Webs site. The information covers pre-history to the present day. A slowly expanding list of names of casualties in and around hull due to the two world wars and others is the be found on the "Heroes of Hull" website.

Maps

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• For a more detailed map of the parishes in the riding please see the Yorkshire parish maps page.
• For a more detailed map of the county please see the Yorkshire map page.
• Here is a map showing the wapentakes for the county.
• View maps of Hull and places within the boundaries of its ancient parish.

Names (Geographical)

• The following places are within the boundaries of this (ancient) parish, but I have no further information on them other than the Ordnance Survey Landranger Grid reference shown:
  • (TA073290) West Park

Newspapers

• The Hull Daily Mail has it's own website carry up to date local news, views, sport, business information etc. The paper archives news stories that have appeared on their website (these are also searchable and go back to May 2000).

Occupations

• Fishermen
  • A list of Fishermen and Fisher-boys killed at sea in the years 1878 to 1881 has been transcribed by Hilary Godber.

Societies

• This parish is covered by the following Society:
  • East Yorkshire FHS

Voting Registers

• The 1834 Electoral Roll for this parish