Norfolk Voting Registers - Poll for Smithdon 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 Smithdon 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.

Bacon (213)
Banbridge (214)
Beeston (213)
Bell (215,216,217-A)
Beverly (215)
Bird (213)
Bobbitt (213)
Bridges (217-A)
Brown (214)
Burrell (216)
Carter (213)
Case (215)
Castleton (217-A)
Christian (213)
Clark (213)
Cock (216)
Collison (217-A)
Cooper (213,215)
Creamer (214)
Cropley (214)
Curtis (213,214)
Daniel (215)

Dearnes (214)
Dolman (215)
Dracot (217-A)
Drew (213)
Dunham (216)
Durham (216)
Emerson (217-A)
England (214)
Fairs (216)
Fish (213)
Frankling (216)
Glover (216)
Gold (216)
Goodwyn (214)
Hall (217-A)
Hatch (216)
Hendry (213)
Hill (214)
Holley (215)
Hoste (215)
Howard (217-A)
Jarvis (215)

Large (213)
Laws (216)
Liddeman (214)
Makemead (214)
Manser (216)
Mason (215)
Mayes (217-A)
Miller (213,216)
Moyse (216)
Norman (215)
Osborn (216)
Overton (217-A)
Parr (217-A)
Peascod (216)
Pickerell (216)
Pitcher (214)
Pointer (214,216)
Ransome (215)
Rayner (214)
Rennet (215)
Reythorn (216)

Rolfe (214)
Rose (214)
Sapy (216)
Short (214)
Shute (213)
Simmons (214)
Smith (214,217-A)
Sparham (214)
Spooner (214)
Styleman (216)
Thistle (217-A)
Thurlow (215)
Tilney (215)
Tinkler (216)
Vellows (213)
Weatherhead (215)
Wilkins (213)
Willis (214)
Wilton (215)
Woods (216)
Young (215)

Smithdon Hundred

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

Barwick
Bircham Newton
Bircham Tofts
Brancaster
Choseley
Docking
Fring

Great Bircham
Great Ringstead
Heacham
Holme-next-the-Sea
Hunstanton
Ingoldisthorpe
(Ingoldesthorp)

Sedgeford
Shernborne
Snettisham
Stanhoe
Thornham
Titchwell
(Tichwell)

Freeholders Names and where the Freeholds lie.	Residence.	Wo de	de Gr	As tl	Co ke
[Page 213]
BRANCASTER
Beeston Edward	Brancaster
Carter John	Brancaster
Clark John	Brancaster
Hendry Stephen	Brancaster
Hendry William	Brancaster
Shute Henry, Cl.	Stapleton, Gloucestershire
Vellows Robert	Burnham Depdale (Burnham Deepdale)
[Totals]		5	3	2	4

GREAT BIRCHAM
Miller Robert	Bircham
[Totals]		1	1

BIRCHAM TOFTS
Wilkins John	Ringstead
[Totals]		1	1

DOCKING
Bacon George	Docking
Bird John	Docking
Bobbitt Robert	Docking
Christian Humphry, Cl.	Docking
Cooper John, sen.	Docking
Cooper Hillary	Thorp Land (Wallington cum Thorpland)
Curtis Philip	Docking
Drew Nicholas	Docking
Fish James	Docking
Large William	Thornham

[Page 214]
Liddeman Thomas	Brancaster
Makemead Edmund	Docking
Pitcher William	Docking
Rayner Robert	Docking
Rose William	Docking
Rose John	Thornham
Short Timothy	Docking
Simmons Nicholas	Docking
Smith Careless	Docking
Sparham Robert	Docking
Spooner Robert	Docking
[Totals]		12	12	9	9

FRING
Creamer Francis	Holkham
Goodwyn Henry, Esq;	London
[Totals]		1	1	1	1

HEACHAM
Banbridge Cuthbert	Heacham
Brown John	Heacham
Cropley Fairborn	Heacham
Curtis James	Heacham
Dearnes Thomas	Heacham
England William	Heacham
Hill Francis	Heacham
Makemead William	Heacham
Pointer Benjamin	Heacham
Rolfe Edmund, jun, Esq;	Heacham
Willis Christopher	Snettisham

[Page 215]
Wilton Thomas	Heacham
Wilton William	Heacham
Young Alexander	Heacham
[Totals]		1	1	13	13

HOLME-next-the-SEA
Case Henry	Mildenhall, Suffolk
Cooper Thomas	Runcton (Holme?)
Holley John, jun.	Holme
Rennet Samuel	Holme
Thurlow Giles	Holme
[Totals]			1	4	5

HUNSTANTON
Beverly William	Hunstanton
Daniel William	Heacham
Dolman John	Docking
Jarvis Samuel	Hunstanton
Mason William	Hunstanton
Norman Abraham	Hunstanton
Tilney John	Hunstanton
[Totals]				7	7

INGOLDESTHORP
Bell Benjamin	Ingoldesthorpe (Ingoldisthorpe)
Hoste Theodorus, Esq;	Ingoldesthorpe (Ingoldisthorpe)
Ransome Robert	Ingoldesthorpe (Ingoldisthorpe)
Weatherhead Thomas	Ingoldesthorpe (Ingoldisthorpe)
[Totals]			1	4	3

[Page 216]
GREAT RINGSTEAD
Durham Thomas	Kings Lynn
Moyse Swift	Wiggenhall St. Mary
Pickerell John	Hunstanton
Styleman Armine, Cl.	Ringstead
Tinkler James	Snettisham
[Totals]				5	4

SEDGEFORD
Dunham Edward	Kings Lynn
Glover Matthias	South Creak(e)
Hatch John Cl.	Burnham Ulph
Laws Edward	Sedgeford
Pointer Thomas	Sedgeford
Reythorn Thomas	Sedgeford
[Totals]		1	1	5	5

SNETTISHAM
Bell Christopher	Snettisham
Burrell Edmund	Heacham
Cock Thomas	Snettisham
Fairs Thomas	Snettisham
Frankling Richard	Snettisham
Gold Robert	Snettisham
Gold George	Snettisham
Manser Edward	Snettisham
Miller James	Snettisham
Osborn Thomas	Snettisham
Peascod Michael	Snettisham
Sapy Thomas	Snettisham
Styleman Nicholas, Esq;	Snettisham
Woods William, sen.	Snettisham
[Totals]		3	1	14	10

[Page 217-A]
STANHOE
Howard William	Stanhoe
Mayes John	South Creak(e)
Smith William	Stanhoe
[Totals]		2	2	1	1

TICHWELL
Bridges Michael Cl.	Fulmeodiston (Fulmodeston)
Emerson Robert	Holt
Parr William	Brancaster
Thistle Nicholas	Tichwell (Titchwell)
[Totals]		2	2	2	2

THORNHAM
Bell Clement	Thornham
Castleton Clark	Ringstead
Collison John	Thornham
Dracot William	Titchwell
Hall John	Thornham
Overton William	Thornham
[Totals]			1	6	5

Notes

1. This Hundred includes "Docking Hundred".
2. 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 places :-
BARWICK, BIRCHAM NEWTON, CHOSELEY and SHERNBORNE
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.

Smithdon Hundred is followed in the Poll book by Clackclose Hundred.

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