Add this eBook to your basket to receive access to all 2,561 records. Our indexes include entries for the spelling porter. In the period you have requested, we have the following 2,561 records (displaying 1,081 to 1,090): 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. Bedfordshire Freeholders and Occupiers: Woburn
(1807)
A poll for two knights of the shire for the county of Bedford, was taken at Bedford from 11 to 22 May 1807, the candidates being Francis Pym esquire (1138 votes), the Rt Hon Richard Fitzpatrick (1084) and John Osborn esquire (1069). The poll book is arranged by hundred, and then by parish or township, giving the freeholders' names, residence, 'of what the freehold consists' (e. g. H. & L. for house and land), the occupier, and the vote cast. Non-voters are not listed: but at the end of each hundred there is a list of rejected votes, giving full name of voter, situation of the property, ground of rejection, and candidates for whom the votes were tendered. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
(1807)
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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| Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
(1807)
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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| Subscribers to Nisbett's Original Evidences
(1807)
'An Attempt to Display the Original Evidences of Christianity in their Genuine Simplicity' by N. Nisbett, A.M., rector of Tunstall, was printed for the author in London in 1807. The list of subscribers generally gives surnames, occasionally with a christian name or initial, and addresses. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
(1808)
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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| Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
(1808)
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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| Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
(1809)
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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| Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
(1809)
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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| Inhabitants of Bandon
(1809)
2 July 1809 George Kingston of Bandon offered this reward: 'WHEREAS about the hour of three o’clock this morning, some wicked and evil-minded person fired a musket ball into one of the windows in the front of my house, in the town of Bandon, which passed through the curtains of a bed and lodged in the wall, close to a lady who lay thereon: I do hereby offer a reward of thirty guineas to any person or persons who will, within six months from this date, discover the person who fired said shot, so as that he may be prosecuted to conviction.' He was supported by neighbours offering in addition sums from £3 8s 3d to £50, in all £586 15s 6d. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Outstanding farmers, breeders and inventors in Cumberland and the Isle of Man
(1805-1810)
F. Jollie and Sons of Carlisle printed this Cumberland Guide and Directory 'containing a Descriptive Tour through the County, and a List of Persons in Public and Private Situations in every Principal Place in the County'. The sample scan is from the Carlisle directory. In amongst the directory lists there is an excursus about the Workington Agricultural Society, which was promoting advances in farming, breeding, horticulture and implement-making in Cumberland, and also had an active branch on the Isle of Man, which became called the Manx Society. It includes this list of the premiums awarded by the society in a wide range of categories from 1805 to 1810. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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