Norfolk Voting Registers - 1714 Poll

Towns & Parishes beginning with W

A copy of the poll for the Knights of the Shire for the county of Norfolk, taken at Norwich, Feb, 1714-15.

The Towns are set in an Alphabetical Order; and so are all the Freeholders under each Town.

Each Page consists of Six Columns. The First contains the Names of the Freeholders under each Town; the Second, the Place of their Residence, (when different from that of their Freehold) the other Four have the initial Letters of the Candidates Names set at Top, and the Black Lines drawn under them shew how every Freeholder voted.

Places

This contains the following parishes where property was held. The names in brackets "()" are alternative spellings as used in the original poll book.

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Notes

• 1. Entries which had christian names starting with "I" have been changed as follows :- "Ia." and "Iames" to "James", "Iohn" to "John", "Ios." to "Jos." etc.
• 2. The christian names "Ios./Jos." could be "Joseph", "Josiah", "Joshua" etc.?
• 3. New Walsingham = Little Walsingham and Old Walsingham = Great Walsingham.
• 4. All the Hundreds and Candidates together with their abbreviations are to be found on the main 1714 Poll Book page.
• 5. In the transcription of the Poll Book the modern spelling of place names has been added in brackets "()" to many of the entries so that a search will find them.
• 6. Surname spelling varied and below are some alternatives which are to be found in the other Norfolk Poll Books (particularly 1734) which may refer to the same families :- Aliison/Allison, Ashmore/Ashmill?, Bradock/Braddock, Briese/Breese, Burisay/Burway, Buttolph/Buttle?, Corben/Cornbyne, Coxson/Coxon, Deeker/Deker, Dethwick/Dethick, Dickson/Dixon, Dimont/Diamond, Eachard/Echard, Fauconer/Faulkner, Fouldier/Fouldgeo, Frarey/Frary, Furnace/Furnis, Fyson /Fison, Godfreys/Godfrey, Jeffery/Jefferys, Johnsons/Johnson, Lines/Lynes, Mallum/Mallom, Notts/Knatts, Payne/Pain, Poynter/Pointer, Pulley/Pully, Richers/Richer, Sacheverell/Sacheverel, Shally/Shirley, Springall/Springold, Staffold/Stafford, Talwyn/Tallowin, Thirlow/Thurlow, Tungwood/Tungood, Weathers/Withers, Wells/Well, Yarham/Yarram
• 7. Christian names also varied ie. Fordelee/Fordley
• 8. Printing errors may also have occured eg. "Aliison" for "Allison".
• 9. There are many places called "Bradley". The compilers of this Poll Book seem to have used "S." and "Su" to indicate "Suffolk" but they may have other meanings eg. "S." for South etc.
• 10. Wooton could be Woodton or Wootton (N. or S.) or somewhere else?
• 11. Barkin could be Barking in Suffolk or somewhere else?
• 12. Entry did not "E." or "W." against it.
• 13. The "B." against these entries is probably to indicate that they lived in "Wheatacre Burgh" which is also known as Burgh St. Peter where there are further entries.
• 14. The 1734 Poll entry has "George Archer" living at Undley (a hamlet of Lakenheath) in Suffolk and with a freehold at Wereham.
• 15. "St. Pet. S." could be "South Elmham St. Peter" in Suffolk or somewhere else?

Places with no voters

The following places :-
    Wallington cum Thorpland, Waterden, Waxham, Wolferton and Worthing
had no one who lived there and voted because of a freehold in the same place.

Note that there may have been voters living in these places but appearing elsewhere. An example of this is Arminghall with no entries but Nicholas Jacob, Gent. lived there but voted because of a freehold held in Needham.

The Poll book continues with Towns and Parishes beginning with the letter Y.

Towns and Parishes

The book contains the following (where "A" is Acle to Aylsham etc.):-

See also the main Voting page and the main 1714 Poll Book page.

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May 2012