Biggins Surname Ancestry ResultsOur indexes 1000-1999 include entries for the spelling 'biggins'. In the period you have requested, we have the following 80 records (displaying 31 to 40): Single Surname Subscription | | | Buying all 80 results of this search individually would cost £468.00. But you can have free access to all 80 records for a year, to view, to save and print, for £100. Save £368.00. More... |
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. Wesleyan Methodist preachers afflicted with illness
(1808-1809)
The Wesleyan Methodist church allowed payments for relief of the afflicted among their clergy, and these payments are listed in the annual accounts.BIGGINS. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Wesleyan Methodist preachers on trial
(1808-1809)
After three years 'on trial' new Wesleyan Methodist preachers were admitted into full connexion with the church: lists of the ministers on trial in England and Ireland were published in the church's annual minutes.BIGGINS. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Wesleyan Methodist preachers' widows
(1808-1809)
The Wesleyan Methodist church's Merciful Fund provided annuities for preachers' widows, as well as other payments to retired clergy, widows and other dependants in need. These are listed in the annual minutes. Particularly useful is the fact that, after a widow remarried, her first married surname and her new surname were both given.BIGGINS. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Wesleyan Methodist preachers withdrawing from the ministry
(1808-1809)
Each year a number of Wesleyan Methodist preachers withdrew from the ministry by reason of ill health, resignation, &c. Their names are given in the annual minutes.BIGGINS. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Obituaries of Wesleyan Methodist ministers
(1809-1810)
Short obituaries of Wesleyan Methodist preachers who died in the previous year are given in the annual minutes. BIGGINS. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Insolvents
(1828)
Insolvency notices for England and Wales: insolvency often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost linksBIGGINS. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| South County Durham Poll Book: Bishop Auckland District
(1832)
A poll for two Knights of the Shire to represent in Parliament the Southern Division of the county palatine of Durham was taken on 21 and 22 December 1832. This poll book sets out all the electors by polling district (Barnard Castle, Bishop Auckland, Darlington, Middleton-in-Teesdale, Sedgefield, Stanhope and Stockton) and gives registered number; full name (surname first); place of abode; nature of qualification (such as House as occupier, Land as occupier, Copyhold Property, &c.); and the name of the parish, township or place where the property is situate. The votes are set out in the right-hand columns, under P. (for Joseph Pearse, jun., esq.), B. (John Bowes, esq.), and S. (Robert Duncombe Shafto, esq.), the three candidates. A voter could choose two candidates, in which case a dash is put in each of the two appropriate columns, or plump for just one - where a star is placed in that candidate's column. This was the first election after the Reform Act, which extended the franchise in the counties to all adult men possessing freehold worth 40s a year or more, or copyhold or long leasehold of £10 or more, or being tenants or short leaseholders of £50 or more. BIGGINS. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Minor offenders in West Langbaurgh division, Yorkshire
(1834-1835)
Justices of the Peace throughout England and Wales had the power of summary conviction for certain minor offences, principally vagrancy, poaching, petty theft, bastardy and assault. The magistrates' clerks for each district were required by Parliament to make a return of the names, offences, terms of imprisonment, and whether a written record was made of the proceedings, for the period from Michaelmas (29 September) 1834 to Michaelmas 1835. The return vary in completeness from magistrate to magistrate - the fullest returns also give the offender's address, the amount of fine or length of imprisonment, and/or the names of the justices. BIGGINS. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Electors in Sutton, Southcoates, Drypool, &c.
(1835)
A poll was taken 6 and 7 January 1835 for the election of members to serve in Parliament for the borough of Kingston-upon-Hull, the candidates being Matthew Davenport Hill, William Hutt and David Carruthers. This poll book lists all the electors in the wards of Hull (St Mary's, North, Trinity, Whitefriar, Humber, Austin, and South Myton), in Sculcoates, and in Sutton, Southcoates, Drypool &c. In each ward the names are arranged in five sections: Householders and Burgesses occupying Ten Pound Households; Burgesses not occupying Ten Pound Households; Unpolled Voters residing in the ward; Unpolled Freemen; and Non-Resident Freemen not polling. There are also short lists of votes that were tendered but the validity of which remained uncertain. In all cases full names and addresses are given: where electors voted, their votes are indicated in the right-hand columns, the numbers shown there being their numbers in the cumulating totals for each candidate. After the name of each voter there is an italic a or b showing whether he voted on the first or second day. BIGGINS. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
|  British merchant seamen
(1835-1836)
At this period, the foreign trade of ships plying to and from the British isles involved about 150,000 men on 15,000 ships; and the coasting trade about a quarter as many more. A large proportion of the seamen on these ships were British subjects, and so liable to be pressed for service in the Royal Navy; but there was no general register by which to identify them, so in 1835 parliament passed a Merchant Seamen's Registration Bill. Under this act this large register of British seamen was compiled, based on ships' crew lists gathered in British and Irish ports, and passed up to the registry in London. Each seaman was assigned a number, and the names were arranged in the register by first two letters of the surname (our sample scan shows one of the pages for 'Sm'); in addition, an attempt was made to separate out namesakes by giving the first instance of a name (a), the second (b), and so on. But no effective method was devised to prevent the same man being registered twice as he appeared in a second crew list; moreover, the original crew lists were clearly difficult for the registry clerks to copy, and some of the surname spellings appear to be corrupted. A parliamentary committee decided that the system devised did not answer the original problem, and this register was abandoned after less than two years: but it is an apparently comprehensive source for British merchant seamen in 1835 to 1836. The register records the number assigned to each man; his name; age; birthplace; quality (master, captain, mate, 2nd mate, mariner, seaman, fisherman, cook, carpenter, boy &c.); and the name and home port of his ship, with the date of the crew list (usually at the end of a voyage). Most of the men recorded were born in the British Isles, but not all (for instance, Charleston and Stockholm appear in the sample scan). The final column 'How disposed of' is rarely used, and indicates those instances where a man died, was discharged, or deserted his ship during the voyage.BIGGINS. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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