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Extracted by Kay Collins, kindly checked by Margaret Powell 1996
Gamekeepers Licences

Introduction

Gamekeepers licences were granted at the Quarter Sessions

There are four volumes:-
1711 - 1753
1789 - 1848
1753 - 1788
1848 - 1932

The index is forename, surname, status & place (if given), area, year and page.

All common forenames are expanded (if contracted) and standardised, all surnames are spelt as in the original books. Home parish (place) and status are not always given. The column “area” is where he was to cover as gamekeeper; it may be for the Hundred, for an estate or for a manor. If the area is the same as his home parish it is not duplicated into the area column, but if several parishes/manors are to be covered then the first is listed and “&c” added.

Volume 2 has a place name index at the end of the entries. The backs of the first two volumes were used to list Meeting House certificates issued and these have been indexed separately.

Forename Surname Status Place Area
Year
Page
Vol
Thomas EKINS gent Rushden Higham Ferrers
1730
59
1
John FLETCHER gent Rushden Higham Ferrers &c
1800
88
3
John FLETCHER gent Rushden & Higham Ferrers &c
1804
135
3
Thomas FLETCHER elder Rushden Higham Ferrers &c
1771
84
2
Thomas FLETCHER gent Rushden Higham Ferrers &c
1791
26
3
Thomas FLETCHER Esq Rushden Higham Ferrers &c
1808
168
3
James SARGENT gent Rushden Wilby
1802
111
3
James SERJEANT   Rushden Higham Ferrers &c
1782
136
2
Samuel WOOLSTON tanner Rushden Irthlingborough
1800
87
3

NRO ref Box X6757/8 Misc QS 293
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