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Fragments from Bolton, Lancashire

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Receipt for 20s. 8d. mentions Richard Morris, Mr. Lew.., P. Halton 1704.(Image SIZE 82k)

Receipt for �10 William Pendlebury of Horridge, Margret France, and John Weddon 1730.(Image SIZE 122k)

Prospectus for new Bolton Newspaper, the Bolton Express, John Yates, Printer, Bolton, 1823 (Image SIZE 560K)

Statement by Mary Harwood, mentions Ann Morris, Oliver Morris, witnessed by Thomas Heath, and John Heaton of Halliwell, 1846. (Image SIZE 192k)

Letter mentioning the late Henry Morris of Halliwell, Doctor Hewitt of Great Lever, from Wm. Ward [?] of Chester, 1830. (Image SIZE 262k)

Printed National Anthem to celebrate William IV's Coronation, by R. Holden, Printer. 1831, Bolton. (Image SIZE 378k)

Printed National Anthem to celebrate William IV's Coronation, by Holcroft and Heaton, Printers &c. 1831, Bolton. (Image SIZE 399k)

Extract from Cobbetts Register, A. Whitehead, Printer, Bolton, 1832. (Image SIZE 166k)

Queen Victoria's Coronation to be reported in Bolton Chronicle. H. Holcroft, Printer, Bolton, 1838. (Image SIZE 339k)

Exhibition of Paintings at Bolton Dispensary. John Ogle, Printer, Bolton, 1838. (Image SIZE 284k)

Instructions for visitors to the Exhibtion of Paintings at Bolton Dispensary. Gardner, Printer, Bolton, 1838. (Image SIZE 90k)

Hints to the Working Classes, undated c.1830- 1840, printed by Gardner, Bolton. (Image SIZE 297k)

Election Notice on Free Trade Platform, for John Bowring, dated 1841, printed by Bradbury, Bolton. (Image SIZE 587k)

Circular for Funds to support John Crompton and erect a statute to the memory of Samuel Crompton in Bolton, also mentions Hardcastle, Cross, and Co. Bankers, Gilbert J. French, and Thos. H. Arrowsmith, Dated 1862. (Image SIZE 140k)

Letter from Gilbert French to Mr. Holden, names mentioned Mr.Ormerod, Mr. Ashworth, and Mr.Dobson (Page2), Mr. Barlow and Mr. Heywood (Page 3), and Mr. Cunliffe (page 4), Dated 1862. (Image SIZE c560k)

Invitation to Mr. Holden, to meet Mr. Gladstone, at Bolton Public Library & Museum, W.W. Cannon, Chairman, Dated 1864 (Image SIZE c43k)

Opening of Farnworth Park, 1864, attended by Mr. Gladstone; Thomas Barnes, Esq; Sir J.P. Kaye-Shuttleworth; Algernon-Egerton; Lieut.Col. Gray; W.N. Massey; T. Bazley; J. Pilkington; J. Hibbert; John Cheetham; and J.R. Barnes (Image SIZE 327k)

Letter to Mr. Holden, regarding the Opening of Farnworth Park, 1864, sent by Mr. Thornley [?] (Image SIZE 197k)

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Fragments from Eton, Buckinghamshire

Transcript of Eton Election, 1846

Letter to Alfred de Nidel at Eton c/o Revd G. Cookesley

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Fragments from Windsor, Berkshire

Transcript from the Windsor Guide, 1825

Voters in the Windsor Poll Book 1832 (and extract from 1835)

Envelope addressed to Mr. Batcheldor

Windsor & Eton Savings Bank Book 1838 - Signatures include : Saunders, Dick, Bonsey, Church, Champnes, Briggs,Beal, Manning, Knyvett, Snowden, Chapman, Voules

Windsor & Eton Savings Bank Book 1845 - Signatures include : Cantrell, Gould, Barton, Fowler, Harrison, Driver, Mason , Caley - and a withdrawl slip 1842 for Elizabeth Grant requesting Rev.Shaw to receive a sum from Frances Emstone, witnessed by John Shaw

Windsor & Eton Savings Bank Book 1840 - Windsor & Eton Savings Bank Book, 1840, Named Sarah Parker, signatures of Briggs, Chapman, Carter, and Knyvett

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Fragments from Plymtree, Devon

Bond, 1772, Elizabeth Jope of Plimtree, William Wright of Cullompton, J. Glanville

Bond, 1758, Ann Ford of Plymtree, Robt, Westron and J. Glanville [of Plymtree ?] and Rebecca Lippincott, of Wellington, Somerset
Second Page mentions Mr. Wright

Bond, C18th, Ann Ford [Plymtree], Wm. Wright, Henry Westron, J. Glanvill [of Plymtree ?], Rebecca Lippincott, [Wellington, Somerset], Henry Lippencott, Mr. FitzWilliam Jope, Giles Bonerman [?]

C18th Doc - Ann Ford, Elizabeth Jope, Fitz William Jope

Indenture 1758 : William Wright of Cullompton and Henry Westron of Ilfrculme, Henry Lippincott, Ann Ford, Rebecca Lippincott, William Were [?], Robt. Westron, J. Glanvill

Bond, 1744, Ann Ford [Plymtree], Fitz William Jope, Henry Lippincott, Sarah Peters, J. Glanville

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Fragment from Happisburgh, Norfolk

Happisburgh and North Walsham receipt, 1773, Norfolk, mentions Richd Gaze, Richd Corke, Eliz. Corke

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Fragment from Maidenhead

, Berkshire - Bond, 1788, Rev. John Cooke, Dissenting Minister, John Rimell, Coachmaster, Phillis Scudamore, Tho. Ford [?], all of Maidenhead

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Fragment from Moorgate, London

Letter of 1855, from Jas. Townley to Mr. Rider of Hoxton, mentioning Messrs. Freshfield

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Fragment from Dymock, Gloucestershire

Agreement between John Hartland of Dymock and Samuel Rickards of Ledbury, Herefordshire [?]

Undated description of an estate in Dymmock called Swords. Names - Mrs. Cam, Mr. Hooper.

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Fragment from Hutton, Essex

Bargain between Mr. George Field of Hutton, and Wm. Dearsly of Romford, both in Essex, Witnessed by Mary Collier

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Fragment from Kilkenny Union, Ireland

Letter to the Clerk of Kilkenny Union from Messrs. STEWARTS and KINCAID of Dublin, 1843

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Fragment from Leicester, Leicestershire

1797, John Mansfield of Leicester, Rev. William Wing of Stamford in Lincolnshire, Caleb Lowdham, Sarah Ward of Thorney Abbey, Ely, Cambridgeshire

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Fragment from Norwich & North Walsham, Norfolk

1823, William Scott of Norwich, John Randell of North Walsham, George Wilkinson and W. Vipond

Letter 1835 : Henry Martineau, Mr. Hart, Mr. Selby, Mr. Kent, Mr. Tremlett [?], Mr. Gardiner, Dowson, addressed to Meadows Taylor Esqrs of Diss

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Fragment from Worcester & London, 1830

Doc. Date 1830, Marriage of Samuel Reeve and Judith Millerbrange (1726), George Cornwall Carden, Cardale, Bromley, and John Crowder (Lord Mayor of London)

Fragment from Worcester & Dymock in Gloucestershire, 1846

Burial of Mary Dance 1806 at Dymock, Gloucestershire, signed Jno Simons, Vicar. Burial of Mary Dance 1841 at Worcester; Statement by Sarah Pemberton of Worcester, mentions Joseph Dance of New Inn Ledbury, Thomas Dance of Pixley, Philip Dance of Worcester, signed C. Redford [?] Master Extraordinary in Chancery

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Fragment from Chatham and Rochester, Kent

Bond 1742, Thomas Thurston, Gent. of Chatham (and Dorothy his Wife) , John Thorpe, Doctor of Physick, of Rochester, Robert Taylor, John Gouldsmith, and Witnessed by ???? and Thos. Dyer

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Fragment from St. Nicholas, Glamorgan

Letter 1849, Mr. Thomas Morgane, Sir George Tyler, Samuel Grimmett, David Jones, John Bevan

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Fragment from Stalham [?], Norfolk

Complaint 1816, William Jay of Stalham[?], William Newsham of East ..., John Howard, Thos. Cooper, James Fl...

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Fragment from Ledbury, Herefordshire

Ledbury Tythes list of Landlords and Occupiers - Undated probably early C19th : B. Hartland, J. Biddulph Esq, P.J. Miles Esq., Calib Hankins, Saunders, Wm. Smithsand [?], John Webb, Rev. Dr. Napleton [?], John Loveridge [?], Wm. Hill, J. Lissaman, John Drew, James Barrett, Thos. Cox, Fra. Lucy, J. Ship Esq, J. Jones, Thos. Higgins, Lady Guply [?], Baker, Lord..... Occupiers : Clarke, Webb, John Stephens, Wm. Sandy [?], J. Smith, Wm. Bond, C. Hank..., Wm. Allen, Goodman, George Badrey [?], Wm. Sovill [?], J. Keaney [?], Wm. Greenaway, Wm. Kendrick, John Cotton, George Hodger

Letter and Family Tree 1829 : Cardale, J. Gregg, descendents of Samuel Reeve and Thomas Hallward, other names Penelope Williams, Eliz Reeve, William Reeve, Jane Hallward, Judith Reeve, John Hallward, Thomas Hallward, William Hallward, Mary Lambard of Seven Oaks in Kent, Nathaniel William Hallward, Mary Anne Hallward, also deposition by John Snape of Shelley in Suffolk aged 68 years, before Chas. Corke magistrate for Suffolk.

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Fragment from Tunstead, Lancashire

1771, John Johnson of Fishly [?] in Norfolk and wife Elizabeth, Henry Smith of Tunstead, William Fazy, Edward Coleman, John Bambridge, Ben. Marke [?], Tho. Mack junr. "

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Fragment from Swindon, Wiltshire

Swindon Deed 1644 (see Transcript below), mentions John Stirchall, William Stirchall, Samuel Lane, Elizabeth Lane, Robert Stratton, Lawl. Stratton, John Smith. In addition the names Elizabeth Drumplin [?], Goodman Baull, , William Webb, Edward Simpson, and Henry Sharpe appear on the reverse (or outside) of the document . "

(Transcript of Deed)"

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Fragment from Ilkeston, Derbyshire

Court Leet, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, 18021802, Francis Agard of Burrows-Ash in Derby, John Shaw of Trowell Moor Nottingham, Thomas Taft Greasley, James Garman.

Copy of Court Leet, 1821 : Robert Leeson, Isaac Cocker, Thomas Critchley, William Longdon, John Taylor, William Bower, Samuel James, Benjamin Potter, John Pedley, Samuel Potter, Thomas Marshall, Thomas Potter, Thomas Harrison, John Lowe, John Shaw of Howell in Nottinghamshire, Henry Carrier, John Henshaw, John Sherwin, John Richardson, John Hawley, Thomas Smith, Thomas Gamble, George Paxton, Francis Green, William Mellor, John Tatum [?], John Rowe, Thomas Barker, Thomas Taft Greasley, Francis Agard of Burrow Ash, Samuel Glen of Wollaton in Nottinghamshire.

Copy of Court Baron 1792: Richard Middlemore, Francis Bengin Richardson, Thomas, John Sherwin, John Bower, Samuel Soweby [?], William Jackson, William Taylor, John Henshaw, John Shaw of Nottinghamshire

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Fragment from Thornborough, Buckinghamshire

Manor Court 1778, Mary Painter, John H..., John Merecraft [?], John Painter, John Adcock, Thomas Brooks.

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Fragment from Impington, Cambridgeshire

1728, John Howell, and .... ?

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Fragment from Bradford, Yorkshire

Agreement 1836, Joseph Brook, Samuel Leeming, John Leeming, William Wells, Joseph Binns of Bradford.

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Fragment origin unknown, possibly London

Invoice 1798, mentions Jas. Mackintosh, Esq. and Cadell & Davies

Notice of Indentures of Assignment 1868 : William Brett and Sacerdote Bonny, of City Road, Middlesex. John Brown Axford and Edward Whillier, and Signed James Church [?].

Notice of Indentures of Assignment 1870 : Helder and Roberts, William Saunders, Thomas Chandler, Edward Whillier, Alfred Maddox of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, also Daniel Keith, Wilson Keith, and Douglas Keith receipt from the Sailors Home, Liverpool 1880.

Notice of Indentures of Assignment 1868 : William Brett, Sacerdote Bonny, John Brown Axford, Edward Whillier, James Chalk [?].

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Fragment Devizes, Wiltshire

Letter 1829 from Mr. Salmon, to Messrs Cole and Earle of Andover, mentions James Sutton of Devizes, Thomas Estcourt, and James Robert Matthews

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Fragment Shrewsbury, Shropshire

Letter 1804 from Mr. Arterley [?], to Messrs Baxter and Lloyds of Ludlow.

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Fragment Saxmundham, Suffolk

Bond 1727, William Corbold, Robert Corbold, Daniel Jesup, John Spin[.], signed Robt Eade and Richd Jenkenson.

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Fragment Newcastle, Staffordshire

Letter 1840 mentions Thomas Shason, Jefson Shason, .... Lowe, and Mr. John Jones of Boston

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Fragment Sherston, Wiltshire

Bond 1754, James Wallis of Sherston, Wilts to Sarah Holborow of Great Badmington, signed Edwd Stall [?], and William Iddols.

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Fragment Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

1826 Inquisition at the House of William Ekin called the Sun Hotel, Thomas Skeels Fryer [?], James Phillips, William Rawlings, Edward Rawlings, Samuel Holder, Revers [?] Dickinson, Robert Press [?], William ...., Henry Peters, George Hankin, John Smith, William Allen, Charles Wagstaff

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Fragment Dublin, Ireland

Letter 1824 Mary Ann Rochford [?], Jn. Dorridge [?].

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Fragment Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire

Lease for 1826, Joseph Langton of Burnham and Thomas Williamson of Farnham Royal, both in Buckinghamshire, and Arnold Copland of Hillingdon, Middlesex, witnessed by Jn. Charsley and .... Walford [?].

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Fragment Wenlworth [?], Hainford [?]. Norfolk

1830 Inclosure Award of Robert Wright of Hainford, Susanna Eliza Smith, Thomas Cross, William Dunham, John Cross.

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Fragment Stockbury, Kent[?]

1820 [The first year of the reign of George IV] Agreement made at Westminster before Robert Dallas, James Allan Park, James Burrough, and John Richardson, Justices. Between Courntney Stacey , Thomas Moggison , and Catharina Elizabeth Moggison

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Fragment from Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire

1864 James Kenneth Howard, Commissioner, James James, Henry Jones, Thomas James the elder, Thomas James the younger, Henry Edmunds, John Barrington, Hiriam Smith, William Wood, George Parry (of Sydney), John Beddis, Richard Rotten [?].

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Fragment from North & South Brewham, Somerset

1820 [The first year of the reign of George IV] Agreement made at Westminster before Robert Dallas, James Allan Park, James Burrough, and John Richardson, Justices. Between John Antony Wickham, James Balch [?] , and Mary Balch [?]

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Fragment from Accrington, Lancashire

Manor of Accrington dated 1777 - names included are Peter Heyworth, Elizabeth Ormerod, Lawrence Ormerod, John Hargreaves, Richard Pilling, John Stot [?], John Liley, Widow Liley, Robert Lord, Richard Nabb, Henry Maden, William Gregory, James Lord, John Bridge, James Haworth, Jonathan Spensor, James Bentley, James Whitaker, John Schofield, John Ingham, George Ormerod, John Ormerod, Richard Smith, John Barcroft, Edward Lord Beaulieu, Isabella Lady Beaulieu, and George Duke of Montagu.

Manor of Accrington dated 1788 - Edward Lord Beaulieu, George Duke of Montagu, Martin Richardson, Robert Battersby of Bury, George Bell of Haslingden, John Hargreaves of Bury, John Piccop, Thomas Hardman of Ropendale.

Manor of Accrington dated 1809 - Henry Duke of Buccleuch, Elizabeth Dutchess of Buccleuch, William Carr, Henry Wilkinson, William Sibbering, John Hardman [?], John Cowpe, James Frith, Lawrence Barlow, Lawrence Ormerod, George Hargreaves, Richard Stephenson, Henry Hargreaves, [Mr.] Bailey.

1836 - Henry James Lord Montagu, Dixon Robinson, James Elton of Buckley, George Bell of Haslington, Samuel Openshaw of Bury, William Plant Woodcock of Holcome, Richard Holden, Thomas Hopwood, Henry Hargreaves, and signed William Thomas Carr.

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Fragment from Bristol

Bond 1805 between James Gurner of St. Michael, and John White, of St. James's, both of Bristol, witnessed by Jno. Wiggins, Lovell [?], and Somerset [?]. .

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Fragment from Beverley, Yorkshire

Manor of Beverley Water Towns dated 1768 - Sir Warton Pennyman Warton, Michael Newton, Charles Anderson Pelham, Catherine Wilberforce, Richard Bell, Ann Bell, and William Nelson.

Manor of Beverley Water Towns dated 1770 - Suckling Spendlove, Sir James Pennyman, Michael Newton, Charles Anderson, Elizabeth Courtney, John Courtney.

Manor of Beverley Water Towns dated 1770 Sir James Pennyman, Michael Newton, Charles Anderson Pelham, Suckling Spendlove, John Courtney.

Manor of Beverley Water Towns dated 1776 - Charles Anderson Pelham, John Ramsey, Thomas Tevey [?], Richard Bell, Ann Bell, George Lawrence, Jane Lawrence, William Hunter, Catherine Dawson, Mr. Squire, John Franklane, John Clarkson, Robert Wise, John Courtney, Peter Nevill Robert Foster, John Hogg, and John Haggard.

Manor of Beverley Water Towns dated 1779 Charles Anderson Pelham, John Ramsey, John Courtney, John Frankland

Manor of Beverley Water Towns dated 1798 - Charles Lord Yarborough, Samuel Hall, William Hunter, George Lawrence, Jane Lawrence, Reuben Robinson, William Leadbeater, Henry William Hunter, and William Lundie.

Manor of Beverley Water Towns dated 1823 Charles Lord Yarborough, Samuel Hall, John Sever of Nafferton, Thomas Woodmansey of Tickton, Christiana Shotling, Joseph Stephenson of Tickton.

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Fragment from Sunbury, Middlesex

Manor of Sunbury 1803 - Edmund Borhm [?], John Hutton Cooper of Bath Somerset, Thomas Craven of London, Thomas Bradford, Thomas Hayward, Phillis Cooper nee Meniconi [?], John Swaile, Tho. Clarke.

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Fragment from Ashley otherwise Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire

Manor of Ashley dated 1837 - George Bragge Rowse Prinn [?], Joseph Cooper Sleaford, Thomas Ireland, James Hancock, John Cook, William Chapman of Brockworth Gloucestershire, Benjamin Chapman of Cheltenham, and William Lawrence.

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Fragment from Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire

Dated 1747 Very difficult to read due to fading - mentions John Cholwell (Clerk of the Bishop of Winchester), Richard Ch....er [line 1] William Andrews, Robert Hackett [both line 2] , John Heward [line 3], John Wallison [line 4].

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Fragment from Wymondham, Norfolk

Dated 1849 William Cooper of Roadham [?], John Blake, Samuel Roper of Croxton near Thetford, George Mays [?], Thomas Harvey.

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Fragment from Bexhill, Sussex

Dated 1868 - Thomas Wheeler Gillham of Caldwell in Rutland, Edmund Charles Currey [?], Alfred Hillman of Lewis, John Lansdell, Thomas Larkin, Frederick Mair, Charles Wooley [?].

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Fragment from Doncaster, Yorkshire

Dated 1849 - Envelope addressed to Sir W.B. Cooke, Bart Co. Bankers (now part of RBS)

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Fragment from Kensington, Middlesex

Dated 1879 - Envelope addressed to J.B. Phillimore, Esq, 23 Young Street (Envelope made by the The Temple Envelope ... Partridge & Cooper, 192 Fleet Street)

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Fragment from Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Dated 1891 - Envelope addressed to Aubrey White, Esq, Assistant Commissioner, Dept of Crown Lands

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Fragment from Aylsham, Norfolk

Copy of the Marriage of James Barber and Charlotte Slaughter 13th August 1835, Witnessed by Charles Gray and Charles Stearman [?]. Copy was made by Edmund Yates in 1862

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Fragment from Whitby, Yorkshire

Letter from William Wallace, joiner of Whitby, to Messrs Gray and Panneth [?] Solicitors re land formerly belonging to Mr Andrew Brodick

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Fragment from Southsea, Hampshire

Southsea, Hampshire, Betsey Pinkard, Simeon Pinkard, Samuel Harding of Portsea, Silas Lush, Elizabeth Harding, George Smith, Mary Eliza Harding, Benjamin Newton, Henrietta Harding, Selina Harding [?], and Wm. Thompson of Portsmouth

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Fragment from Montrose

Signature of James Rorie of Montrose, dated 1773, and Jas Gemble [?] from an 1718 edition of Faithful Register of the Late Rebellion

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Fragment from ?

Signature of Willm Empson, dated 1722 , also signed by James Shaw from a 1709 Bound Edition of the Tatler

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Fragment from Portugal and Middlesex

John Smith Athelstane, change of name, Michael Smith, Benjamin Smith, Thomas Athelstane, Eugine Sullivan of Lisbon, Gent., Jerh Meagher [?] British Vice Consul

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Fragment from Old Dalby, Leicestershire

Tithe at Old Dalby 1846. Names listed : George Wingrove Cooke; Rev W.G. Sawyer; Elizabeth Turner; John Wood; Edward Marriott; James Orson; Samuel Gilbert; Earl of Aylesford; Admiral Bouverie; John Austin; Joseph Barnes; Henry Bonser, William Brett; W. Brewtnall; Eliz Burroughs; John Copley; John Dakin; J.W. Gill; John Grice; Richard Grice; William Hauley; James Harrice; William Holwell; R. Jallando; William Jallando; Jacob Johnson; John Johnson; Thomas Lockton; E Marriott; Jasper Perkins; George Smith; Andrew Wilford; John Woodford; Ann Wright; Robert Allen; Jas Asher; George Biddles; Thos Brewtnall; W. Bryans; Eliz. Burrows; Charles Edward; E. Gibson; John Greasley; William Hatton; J. Howard; Wm. Howley; J. Lockton; Hugh Palmer; Thomas Palmer; Ben Tuckwood; John Turner; Hannah Wells; John Barnes; Thomas Biddles; James Stokes; Thos Hall; Edwd Pool; Edwd Charles; Briggs; Wm. Williamson; W. Bryan; E Charles; Robt Clarke; S. Gibson; A. Ledbeater; W. Gill; John Hill; W. Pycroft; Wm Sleath; John Woodford; Andrew Wilford; William Grundy; Robt Shelton; Wm. Sykes; Wm Beasley; Wm Couthard; J.J. Bishop; and Parr

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Fragment from Kelsale, Suffolk

1861 Marriage Certificate for Francis Skoulding and Mary Hewitt, his father Thomas Skoulding and her father Thomas Hewitt, Curate Jno James; Witness Sarah Skoulding

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Fragment from Hinderton and Minshall Vernon, Cheshire

Obligation Bond : Between William Wilkinson of Hinderton, Gent, and Thomas Broome, Farmer of Minshall Vernon, Witnessed by Samual Skeviatt and James Skeviatt

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