Norfolk Voting Registers - Poll for Brothercross Hundred 1768

A copy of the poll for the knights of the shire for the county of Norfolk, taken at Norwich, March 23, 1768 for Brothercross Hundred. This was done at Booth 13 and is found on Pages 202 to 205-A
[Printed by W.Chase]

Name Index

The poll book contains the following names and the numbers in brackets refer to the page numbers on which they occur.

Allen (203)
Allison (203)
Allot (203)
Allty (202)
Baldwin (204)
Barker (204)
Bayley (203)
Beeston (202)
Brown (202)
Bull (203)
Burton (203)
Clarke (202)
Coulsey (204)
Crow (202)
Dack (204)

Davis (204)
Dennis (202,204)
Dewing (204)
Dixon (204)
Dunham (203)
Ellis (202)
Elmer (204)
Evitts (204)
Foley (202)
Glover (204)
Groom (203,204)
Hall (203)
Holmes (204)
Humphrey (203)
Jaggs (202)

Kenny (204)
Lack (205-A)
Lake (202)
Laws (204)
Layton (202)
March (203)
Mason (203)
Moniment (203)
Munsey (203)
Nelson (203)
Noakes (204)
North (204)
Oliver (205-A)
Parkinson (203)
Patron (205-A)

Pyemount (204)
Raven (204)
Rayner (203)
Roston (202)
Savory (202)
Seel (204)
Sheales (205-A)
Shelles (205-A)
Sherwood (204)
Smith (203)
Styleman (203)
Thurlow (205-A)
Townsend (204)
Turner (205-A)
Walker (202)
Wilmot (204)

Brothercross Hundred

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

Burnham St Andrew
-Part of Burnham Overy
Burnham Deepdale
(Burnham Depdale)
Burnham Norton

Burnham Overy
-See also Burnham St Andrew
Burnham Sutton
-See also Burnham Ulph
Burnham Thorpe

Burnham Ulph
-Part of Burnham Sutton
Burnham Westgate
North Creake (North Creak)
South Creake (South Creak)
Waterden

Freeholders Names and where the Freeholds lie.	Residence.	Wo de	de Gr	As tl	Co ke
[Page 202]
BURNHAM ST. ANDREW
Lake Edmund	Burnham-Deepdale
[Totals]		1	1

BURNHAM DEPDALE
Clarke Thomas	Burnham Depdale (Burnham Deepdale)
Crow Henry	Stoke (Stoke Ferry?)
[Totals]		1	1	1	1

BURNHAM NORTON
Allty Thomas	Snettisham
Ellis John	Burnham Ulph
Foley Thomas	Burnham Norton
Jaggs Clement	Roydon
Roston Charles	Burnham Norton
Savory John	Syderstrand (Syderstone?)
Walker William	Burnham Norton
[Totals]		4	4	3	3

BURNHAM OVERY
Beeston Edward	Burnham Overy
Brown Thomas	Burnham Overy
Dennis John	Burnham Overy
Layton John	Burnham Overy

[Page 203]
Munsey Oliver	Burnham Overy
Rayner John	Burnham Overy
Smith Thomas	Burnham Norton
Styleman Robert, Cl.	Norwich
[Totals]		7	7	1	1

BURNHAM SUTTON
Moniment John	Burnham Sutton
[Totals]			1		1

BURNHAM THORP
Groom John	Congham
Humphrey John	Burnham Thorp(e)
March John	Rainham (Raynham)
Nelson Edmund, Cl.	Burnham Thorp(e)
[Totals]		4	4

BURNHAM ULPH
Dunham Edmund	Sedgeford
Hall Robert	East Bilney
Mason Robert	Docking
Parkinson Henry	Burnham Ulph
[Totals]		2	2	2	2

BURNHAM WESTGATE
Allen William	Burnham Westgate
Allison Joseph	Burnham Westgate
Allot Brian	Burnham Westgate
Bayley Edmund	Burnham Westgate
Bull Robert	Burnham Westgate
Burton Nicholas	Anmer

[Page 204]
Dewing Michael	Burnham Westgate
Groom John	Burnham Westgate
Laws Jeremiah	Burnham Westgate
Noakes Thomas	Downham
North Matthew	Burnham Westgate
Pyemount Thomas	Burnham Westgate
Raven Nicholas	Burnham Westgate
Sherwood Bartholomew	Burnham Westgate
Townsend William	Burnham Westgate
Wilmot John	Burnham Westgate
[Totals]		5	12	4	10

NORTH CREAK
Holmes Jeremiah	North Creak(e)
Kenny John	North Creak(e)
Seel Benjamin	Warham
[Totals]		3	3

SOUTH CREAKE
Barker John	South Creak(e)
Baldwin Thomas	South Creak(e)
Coulsey Samuel	South Creak(e)
Davis William	Whiting (Wighton?)
Davis William, jun.	Whiting (Wighton?)
Dack Robert	South Creak(e)
Dennis Jonas	South Creak(e)
Dixon Henry	South Creak(e)
Elmer John	Rainham (Raynham)
Elmer Michael	South Creak(e)
Evitts Thomas	South Creak(e)
Glover Robert	South Creak(e)

[Page 205-A]
Lack William	Little Walsingham
Oliver John	South Creak(e)
Oliver Thomas	South Creak(e)
Patron Michael	Thorham (Thornham)
Sheales John	South Creak(e)
Shelles Charles	South Creak(e)
Thurlow John	South Creak(e)
Thurlow George	South Creak(e)
Turner David	South Creak(e)
[Totals]		15	16	4	7

Candidates

Wode = Sir Armine Wodehouse, Bart.
de Gr = Thomas De Grey Esq.
Astl = Sir Edward Astley, Bart.
Coke = Wenman Coke Esq.

Notes

Burnham Sutton is usually refered to as "Burnham Sutton-cum-Burnham Ulph".
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.

Places with no voters

The following place :-
WATERDEN
had no one who lived there and voted because of a freehold in the same place.

Note that many people still voted based on a freehold held elsewhere. An example of this is Stow Bardolph with no entries but with the following :-

Francis Rising is under Hockering because of his freehold there but lives in Stow Bardolph.
William Barton a Clerk (Clergyman) is under Wiggenhall because of his freehold there but lives in Stow Bardolph.

Brothercross Hundred is followed in the Poll book by North Greenhoe Hundred.

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