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Voting Registers - Poll 1761

Votes cast in Hamlets &c.

An alphabetical draught of the polls for 2 members of Parliament for the City of Norwich taken the 27th Day of March 1761.

This page contains all the voters who resided in the Parishes and Hamlets on the edges of (but forming part of the City of) Norwich and in The Cathedral Close as listed below. (For other parishes and places, see the main 1761 Norwich Poll Book page.)

Parishes etc.
[Hamlets &c.]
[Links are to
this page]
  The Cathedral Close  56
  Earlham  55
  Eaton  55
  Heigham  54
  Lakenham  55
  Trowse, Carrow and Bracondale  55

This election was between Harbord Harbord Esq. (H-d.), Edward Bacon Esq. (B.), Robert Harvey Esq. (H-y.), and Nockold Tompson Esq. (T.)

Transcription of Hamlets &c. in the Poll Book follows:-

 

( 54 )

 

HEIGHAM
[Voters Name, Occupation]
H-d.B.H-y.T.
Ames James, Woolcomber 

 
Baly John, Worsted-weaver
  
Beeton Jasper, Worsted-weaver, Freeh. in Heigh.

  
Bloy William, Worsted-weaver

  
Britiffe William, Worsted-weaver  

Clarke John, Worsted-weaver, Freeh. in Heigh.

  
Claxton Philip, Worsted-weaver, Freeh. in Clem.
   
Craske William, Worsted-weaver, Freeh. in Giles
  
Crome Charles, Patten-maker, Freeh. in Benedict  

Crome John, Patten-maker  

Crowe Charles, Tanner

  
Cubit Robert, Worsted-weaver

  
Davy Henry, Worsted-weaver, Freeh. in Heigh.

  
Dawson Thomas, Bleechman 

 
Decarle Robert, Mason

  
Dixon William, Worsted-weaver

  
Ellis Peckover, Turner  

Fassett Jeremiah, Worsted-weaver
  
Fiddeman Robert, Worsted-weaver  

Forster John, Worsted-weaver

  
Knipe Edmund, Esq; Freeh. in Heigham

  
Maltby Daniel, Worsted-weaver  

Nobbs Thomas, Worsted-weaver, Freeh. in Heig.

  
Page Peter, Worsted-weaver  

Prior John, Gardener

  
Read Nicholas, Worsted-weaver

  
 
HEIGHAM.55
Scatchelow John, Worsted-weaver  

Skinner John, Carpenter
   
Skinner Yestis, Mason, Freeh. in Heigh.

  
Stannard Abraham, Worsted-weaver  

Stannard James, Worsted-weaver  

Stannard John, Worsted-weaver

  
Tyrrell Stephen, Woolcomber

  
Warrington John, Fishmonger

  
[Totals for Heigham]  22  18  12  14

 
 
TROWSE, CARROW, and
BRACONDALE Hamlets.
 
Aldridge John, Baker

  
Brampton Thomas, Worsted-weaver  

Brereton Samuel, Gentleman

  
Eagle Edmund, Glover
   
Eagle Edmund, Glover
  
Greenwood Erasmus, Blacksmith

  
Hutchinson William, Worsted-weaver  

Mollet William, Worsted-weaver

  
Pearce Tuthill, Thatcher, Freeh. in Trowse Milg.  

Sayer John, Merchant 
  
Smith Thomas, Carpenter, Freeh. in Trowse M.

  
Stower John, Worsted-weaver

  
Turner William, Gardener  

Turner William, Gardener 
 
Worship James, Worsted-weaver, Freeh. in Edm.

  
Young John, Worsted-weaver  

[Totals for Trowse, Carrow & Bracondale]    9    9    5    7
 
LAKENHAM. 
Cubitt Samuel, Worsted-weaver

  
Dey James, Worsted-weaver

  
Gobbet Knipe, Gentleman

  
Stichberry John, Freeh. in, St. Stephen.

  
 
EARLHAM. 
BACON EDWARD, Esq; Recorder

  
 
EATON. 
Ludlam James, Butcher

  
[Totals for Lakenham, Earlham & Eaton]    6    6  
 
56                               The CATHEDRAL CLOSE.
Aufrere Anthony, Clerk, Freeh. in Heigham

  
Brett Robert, Manufacturer

  
Clarke Charles, Gentleman

  
Frank Francis, Gentleman, Freeh. in Heigham

  
Greeves Peter, Surgeon, Freeh. in Pockthorpe

  
Greygoose Thomas, Taylor
  
Harwood Gardiner, Gentleman

  
Heath William, Baker
  
Herne William, Clerk, Freeh. in Colgate  

Mason Henry, jun., Worsted-weaver

  
Payne Thomas, Woolcomber

  
Peete Robert, Chairmaker

  
Pleasance Clement, Freeh. in Pockthorp
  
Ray Robert, Butcher

  
Salmon James, Baker

  
Simmons John, Worsted-weaver

  
Smith William, Gentleman, Freeh. in St. Paul.

  
Smith William, Clerk, Freeh. in St. Paul

  
Shilling John, Carpenter

  
Thetford Samuel, Taylor

  
Turner John, Baker

  
[Totals for The Cathedral Close]  20  17    1    4

The Poll book continues with the Country Voters on page 56.

Notes

  • 1. Some variation will be found in the names of the parishes/places.
  • 2. The following alternative spellings for parish and hamlet names should be noted :-
    St. George Colgate/St. George Colegate, Heigh./Heigham, St. Laurence/St. Lawrence, St. Peter Permountergate (Parmentergate)/St. Peter-per-Mountergate, Trowse/Trowse Millgate
  • 3. Abbreviations used in the Poll Book have the following meanings :- "F.H." = "Freeholder", "Freeh." = "Freehold", "W.W." or "Wd.w." = "Worsted-weaver".
  • 4. The following alternative spellings for trades should be noted:- Gardiner/Gardener, Joyner/Joiner, Linnen-draper/Linen draper, Taylor/Tailor, Wool-comber/Woolcomber.

See also the Norfolk Voting Registers, Norwich Voting Registers and the main 1761 Norwich Poll Book pages.

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Copyright © Mike Bristow.
December 2014