Norfolk: Voting Registers
Poll for Grimshoe 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 Grimshoe Hundred. [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.

Grimshoe Hundred

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

[Transcription copyright © Mike Bristow]

Notes

• 1. "Stone Cagtoft" and "Eastring" are not in the Norfolk Gazetteer of place names?
• 2. "Southgate" occurs at Cawston, Snettisham and South Creake in Norfolk.
• 3. 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.
• 4. "Edward Stonely" in not in Crouse Poll book.
• 5. "William Spencer" in not in Crouse Poll book.
• 6. "Thomas Thickpenny" in not in Crouse Poll book.
• 7. "John Hinsby" in not in Crouse Poll book.
• 8. "William Ruddram" in not in Crouse Poll book.
• 9. "Daniel Howard" in not in Crouse Poll book.
• 10. "William Horseler" in not in Crouse Poll book.
• 11. "John Secker" *2 here but only one in Crouse Poll book.

Places with no voters

The following places :-
    BUCKENHAM TOFTS, COLVESTON, CRANWICH, IGBOROUGH, STANFORD, STURSTON and WEST TOFTS  
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.

Grimshoe Hundred is followed in the Poll book by Forehoe Hundred.

See also the main Voting page and the main 1768 Poll Book page.

Copyright © Mike Bristow.
January 2010