Norfolk: King's Lynn
Voting Registers - Poll 1826

King's Lynn elected 2 people to represent the Borough in Parliament from at least 1298 until 1885 after which only one person was elected. Before the secret ballot of 1872 Poll Books were published for many contested elections indicating how the voters (only Freemen of the Borough until 1832) voted. See King's Lynn Voting page for all known.

Most of the places of residence are in Norfolk, Cambridgeshire or Lincolnshire but a number of people are seen to be living elsewhere. The notes section will help to identify the location of some of these.

Transcriptions available

Given below are the dates for the other Polls up to 25th July 1837 with links to further transcriptions. For later ones follow the link to the King's Lynn voting page.

• 1747 - Original hand written poll clerks books Nos 2, 3 & 4 only.
    Names, occupation and residence.
• 1747 - Original hand written full copy of poll.
    Detail is as above but with differences in spelling, trades etc.
• 1768 - Names, occupation and residence
• 1768 - Original hand written poll clerks books.
    Detail is as above but with differences in spelling and trades.
• 1784 - Names, occupation and residence
• 1822 - Names, occupation and residence.
• 1822 - Original hand written poll clerks books (including some non-voters).
    Detail is as above plus Christian names & Street addresses.
• 1824 - Names, occupation and residence.
• 1826 - Names, occupation and residence.
• 1835 - Names, occupation and residence.
• 1837

[Transcription copyright © Mike Bristow]

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  N.B.   R. C. Arnop, voted for Sir Wm. Folkes, and his vote was recorded by mistake, although as he was neither a Freeman nor entitled to his Freedom, the Majorities, should be stated as under.

The following Freemen arrived on Saturday Evening, who stated before the Mayor their intention to have voted for Sir. Wm. Folkes,

W. Wigmore a Freeman also arrived on Saturday Evening but refused to declare for whom he intended to vote.

Notes

• 1. A "---" or "...." in the "ADDITIONS" or the "RESIDENCE" columns indicates "ditto".
• 2. Name spelling varied and below are some alternatives which are to be found in the other King's Lynn Poll Books which may refer to the same families :- Crisp/Crispe, Fackney/Fakeney/Fachney, Harwick/Hardwick, Hogge/Hogg, Mackee/Makee, Meers/Meyers, Merrycock/Merricock, Reed/Read, Wardle/Wardell.
• 3. Many places outside Norfolk had seafaring connections through trade and shipbuilding. Some of those given as residences are listed below together with the Chapman county codes in "[]" in which they lay in 1826 :- Camberwell [SRY], Chatham [KEN], Deptford [KEN], Greenwich [KEN], Gillingham [KEN], Lambeth [SRY], London [LND], North Blyth [NBL] and Rotherhithe [LND].
• 4. Page numbers and headings "A", "B", ..."Y" were not in the original and have been added here for clarity.

See also the main Voting page,  King's Lynn Voting page,  County elections page and the King's Lynn parish page.

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Copyright © Mike Bristow.
July 2012