Gunner Surname Ancestry ResultsOur indexes 1000-1999 include entries for the spelling 'gunner'. In the period you have requested, we have the following 202 records (displaying 81 to 90): Single Surname Subscription | | | Buying all 202 results of this search individually would cost £1,142.00. But you can have free access to all 202 records for a year, to view, to save and print, for £100. Save £1,042.00. More... |
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(1835)
A poll to elect knights of the shire to represent the Western Division of the county of Kent in parliament was held in 1835, the candidates being Thomas Law Hodges (H), Thomas Rider (R) and sir William R. P. Geary (G). The poll started on January 19th; Rider withdrawing his name on that first day, the poll was closed prematurely, many electors not yet having voted. This poll book lists all the electors, whether they voted or not; the county franchise included not only male freeholders of 40s a year, but also £10 copyholders and long-leaseholders, and £50 short-leaseholders and tenants. For each elector the full name is given (surname first) and residence (often not the place for which qualified to vote). Votes are indicated by dashes in the right-hand columns. GUNNER. 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.GUNNER. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Dissolutions of Partnerships
(1836)
Trade partnerships dissolved, or the removal of one partner from a partnership of several traders, in England and Wales
GUNNER. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Trustees and Solicitors
(1837)
Trustees appointed to take over bankrupts' estates in England and Wales, and their solicitors. Trustees are often friends or relatives of the bankrupt: and/or principal creditors
GUNNER. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Voters in the Western Division of Norfolk, for the parish of King's Lynn St Margaret
(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.GUNNER. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Insolvents
(1838)
Insolvency notices for England and Wales: insolvency often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost linksGUNNER. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
(1839)
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.
GUNNER. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| London criminals and witnesses
(1839)
Minutes of the evidence presented at the Central Criminal Court were recorded in shorthand by Henry Buckler. This volume covers the whole proceedings of the Queen's Commission of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer, and Gaol Delivery, for the City of London, and Gaol Delivery for the county of Middlesex and those parts of the counties of Essex, Kent and Surrey lying within the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court, for the 7th to 12th sessions, from May to October 1839. The index covers both the accused and the witnesses (including police constables &c.) summoned to give evidence. The accused's name is given an asterisk if previously in custody; and a dagger if a 'known associate of bad characters'. Each entry usually concludes with the age of the accused, the verdict, and, where guilty, the sentence.GUNNER. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| British Army administration
(1841)
The British Army of queen Victoria's time had a very extensive system of administration. The Royal Kalendar lists officials, both uniformed and civilian, from the Commander-in-Chief's Office at Horse Guards, the Adjutant-General's Office, the Recruiting Department, the Quarter Master-General's Office, the Judge Advocate-General's Office, the Consolidated Board of General Officers, the Cinque Ports, the War Office, the Office of her Majesty's Paymaster-General, the Ordnance Department (including the out-ports and stations at Woolwich, Chatham, Dover, Portsmouth, Devonport, Guernsey, Jersey, Chester and Liverpool, Carlisle, Hull, Landguard Fort and Harwich, Alderne, the gunpowder manufactory at Waltham Abbey, the gunpowder magazines at Hyde Park, Purfleet, Gravesend and Tilbury, Upnor Castle, Priddy's Hard, Tipner Point, Keyham Point, Marchwood and Tynemouth; at Edinburgh, Stirling Castle and Fort George in Scotland; in Antigua, Australia, the Bahamas, Barbadoes, Berbice, Bermuda, Cape of Good Hope, Colombo, Corfu, Demerara, Dominica, Gibraltar, Grenada, Halifax (Nova Scotia), Jamaica, Isle aux Nois, Kingston (Upper Canada), Malta, Mauritius, Montreal, New Brunswick, Prince Edward's Island, Quebec, Rideau Canal, Ottawa Canals, St Christopher, St Helena, St Lucia, St Vincent's, Santa Maura, Sierra Leone, Toronto, Tobago, Trincomalee, Trinidad and Zante), the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, the Royal Military Asylum at Chelsea and Southampton, Army Agents, General Agents for the Recruiting Service, and Army general staff and governors of forts and garrisons in Ireland.GUNNER. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Schoolmasters, governors and patrons of schools and children's charities
(1841)
Officials, masters and assistants of Winchester College, Eton College, Manchester School, St Paul's School, Mercers Grammar School, Christ's Hospital, Merchant Taylors School, Etwall and Repton Incorporated Hospital and School, St Saviour's Grammar School (Southwark), Harrow School, Westminster College, Rugby School, Shrewsbury School, St Olave's Grammar School, Saint Margaret's Hospital (Westminster), Charter House, Camberwell Free Grammar School, Dulwich College, Beccles School, Archbishop Tenison's Grammar School and Library, Blue Coat School (Westminster), Grey Coat Hospital School (Westminster), St David's College (Lampeter), Raine's Charities, the Orphan Working School, Welsh Charity School, Asylum for the Support and Education of the Deaf and Dumb Children of the Poor; Philological School; School for Indigent Blind; Philanthropic Society; St Ann's Society Schools; London Hibernian Society for Establishing Schools and Circulating the Holy Scriptures in Ireland; City of London School of Instruction and Industry; British and Foreign School Society; the Corporation of the Caledonian Asylum for Supporting and Educating the Children of Soldiers, Sailors and Marines, Natives of Scotland, and of Indigent Scotch Parents, Resident in London, not Entitled to Parochial Relief; London Orphan Asylum; the Adult Orphan Institution for the Relief and Education of the Friendless and Unprotected Daughters of Clergymen of the Established Church &c.; the Irish Society of London for Promoting the Education of the Native Irish through the Medium of their own Language; the Benevolent Society of St Patrick; the British Orphan Asylum; and the Infant Orphan Asylum, are listed in the Royal Kalendar.GUNNER. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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