Add this eBook to your basket to receive access to all 290 records. Our indexes include entries for the spelling foy. In the period you have requested, we have the following 290 records (displaying 121 to 130): These sample scans are from the original record. You will get scans of the full pages or articles where the surname you searched for has been found. Your web browser may prevent the sample windows from opening; in this case please change your browser settings to allow pop-up windows from this site. Voters in the Western Division of Norfolk, for the parish of Emneth
(1837)
Under the Reform Act of 1832, the County of Norfolk was allotted four Members of Parliament, being two Knights of the Shire for the Eastern Division and two for the Western. The Western Division included the hundreds of Brothercross, Clackclose, Freebridge Lynn, Freebridge Marshland, Gallow, North Greenhoe, South Greenhow, Grimshoe, Guiltcross, Holt, Launditch, Mitford, Shropham, Smithdon and Wayland. Polling in 1837 took place at Swaffham, Downham, Fakenham, Lynn Regis, Thetford and East Dereham. The franchise was available to freeholders worth 40s a year or over; copyholders and long leaseholders of £10 or more; short leaseholders and tenants of £50 or more: but limited to adult males. Voting took place on 1 and 2 August 1837. This poll book lists the voters for each parish, with the votes cast. Each voter had two votes: the votes are indicated in the columns F. (Sir William Henry Browne Folkes, 2838); A. (Sir Jacob Astley, 2713); B. (William Bagge, 3178); and C. (William Lyde Wiggett Chute, 2877). The voters were not necessarily resident in the parish, but derived their franchise from the land there; so some of the names have addresses outside the parish, not a few living in different counties. Not everyone voted, but everyone with a vote was listed in the poll book: persons who qualified for voting in two parishes (but nevertheless had just the one vote per person) are noted as such. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
(1838)
Death notices and obituaries, marriage and birth notices, civil and military promotions, clerical preferments and domestic occurrences, as reported in the Gentleman's Magazine. Mostly from England and Wales, but items from Ireland, Scotland and abroad.
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| Dominica Slave Owners (1838)
Slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire by act of Parliament in 1833. This list, published in 1838, gives details of compensation paid to owners who had suffered by the emancipation of their slaves after abolition. The table gives the date of the award, the number of the claim, the full name of the party to whom payment was awarded, the number of slaves, and the sum paid. Few masters had owned more than 100 slaves; most of the claimants had only a few. The cost of the loss of a single slave was generally assessed at about £20. There were 1030 claims from Dominica, including some that were abandoned, disallowed, or still unsettled because of litigation.
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| Electors of Emneth
(1840)
The register of electors entitled to vote in any parliamentary election for West Norfolk between 1 November 1840 and 1 November 1841 lists 7,620 freeholders arranged by hundred and within hundred by parish or township &c. In the first column, after number within the register, the elector's name is given (surname first); the second column gives place of abode; the third column the nature of qualification (such as 'owner and occupier'); and the fourth column the address of the qualifying property, in some cases with the name of the tenant or occupier. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Officers of the British Army
(1840)
The New Annual Army List, corrected to 7 February 1840, was published in London by Lieut. H. G. Hart. It lists all serving officers, first of all a list of General and Field Officers by rank from field marshal down to major; and then by regiment, including all ranks down to ensign, with paymasters, adjutants, quarter-masters, surgeons and assistant-surgeons. These lists are all annotated with dates of rank in the army and regiment, and with symbols indicating the officers present at Trafalgar (T), in the Peninsula or the South of France (P), and Waterloo (W). A superscript p indicates that the commission was purchased; an asterisk that it was temporary. The regiments and units are listed in order of precedence: Head Quarters staff; Life Guards; Horse Guards; 7 regiments of Dragoon Guards; 17 regiments of Dragoons; 98 regiments of Foot; the Rifle Brigade; two West India regiments of Foot; Ceylon Rifles; Royal African Colonial Corps; Cape Mounted Rifles; Royal Newfoundland Veterans; Royal Malta Fencibles; Recruiting Staff; Royal Artillery; Royal Engineers; Royal Marines; Commissariat; and the Medical Department. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Churchmen and church officers in England and Wales
(1841)
The Royal Kalendar has an extensive ecclesiastical section, giving the names of officials at the College of Doctors of (church) Law, the Ecclesiastical Courts, and the ecclesiastical law proctors; deans, chancellors, archdeacons, canons and prebendaries for all the dioceses of England and Wales; the officers and fellows (being all the parish priests within and without the walls of London) of Sion College; and the incumbents of the parishes within ten miles of London (annotated to show whether rectors, vicars or curates, and with the net annual revenue of each cure); the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England; the Committee of Council on Education; and then the officers of the various religious societies (Queen Anne's Bounty Office, and First-Fruits and Tenths Offices; Commissioners for Building Additional Churches; Society for Promoting the Building of Churches and Chapels; Anniversary Festival of the Sons of the Clergy; Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts; Dissenters' Library; Society for Maintaining and Educating Poor Orphans of Clergymen of the Established Church; Society for Promoting Religious Knowledge; Patrons of the Anniversary of the Charity Schools; Naval and Military Bible Society; Society for the Support and Encouragement of Sunday Schools throughout the British Dominions; Society for Extending the Christian Faith in the British West India Islands; London Missionary Society; Religious Tract Society; Society for the Suppression of Vice; British and Foreign Bible Society; Church Missionary Society; Prayer Book and Homily Society; Dr Bray's Institution; London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews; National Society for the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church; Church Pastoral Aid Society; European Missionary Society; British Society for Promoting the Religious Principles of the Reformation; and the Protestant Association). | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Householders of the parish of St Clement's in the city of Oxford
(1841)
A parliamentary poll of the freemen and electors of the City of Oxford was taken 30 June 1841, the candidates being Donald Maclean (Mac), James Haughton Langston (Lan) and Neill Malcolm (Mal). The poll book records the names, addresses and occupations of the householders, district by district, as well as the names of the freemen of the city, and shows for whom they voted. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Householders of the parish of St John's in the city of Oxford
(1841)
A parliamentary poll of the freemen and electors of the City of Oxford was taken 30 June 1841, the candidates being Donald Maclean (Mac), James Haughton Langston (Lan) and Neill Malcolm (Mal). The poll book records the names, addresses and occupations of the householders, district by district, as well as the names of the freemen of the city, and shows for whom they voted. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Calcutta Births
(1843)
The Indian Mail, 'A Monthly Register for British & Foreign India, China, & Australasia' commenced publication 9 May 1843 as a continuation of the digest of Eastern intelligence that thitherto had formed a part of the Asiatic Journal. The Register section contained notices of births, marriages and deaths from the presidencies of Calcutta (extending across northern India, and into Burma), Madras, and Bombay (including Aden), as well as Australasia, Ceylon, China, Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, and Singapore.
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| Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
(1844)
Death notices and obituaries, marriage and birth notices, civil and military promotions, clerical preferments and domestic occurrences, as reported in the Gentleman's Magazine. Mostly from England and Wales, but items from Ireland, Scotland and abroad.
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