North Yorkshire 18th Century Gamekeepers
All persons qualified to kill or sell game registered with the Clerk of Peace who issued a certificate for which a fee was paid. Normally, it was the Lord of the Manor or trustees who applied for the licence by nominating and appointing a gamekeeper. These manors or areas may not be the same as their usual residence. Over these years, entries cover new appointments or the renewing of licences. [ Extracted from records held at North Yorkshire County Record Office, Northallerton].
ABRAHAM Thomas yeoman Easington & Boulby
ABRAM Thomas menial servant Easington
ALDERSON Christopher yeoman Healaugh
ATKINSON John Reverend Barton
ATKINSON George Cropton
AYSCOUGH Christopher East Witton
BAINBRIDGE William Langbaurgh Liberty
BARR Francis yeoman Osmotherley
BELL William menial servant Rosedale
BEST Thomas yeoman Kirklevington
BLACKBURN George yeoman Barton
BODDY John menial servant Hutton le Hole
BOOTH John yeoman Pickering, Thornton
BOOTH William yeoman Hinderwell, Roxby
BROTHERTON William yeoman Romaldkirk, Hornby
BROWN Levi yeoman Forcett
BROWN Charles menial servant Bransby & Hearsby
CAMMERON Thomas menial servant Ormesby
CHAPMAN George innkeeper Stokesley
CLOUGH Thomas coal/slate merchant Carlton in Coverdale
COATES Thomas innkeeper Great Smeaton
COTTON Mark Appleton Wiske
COVERDALE John Stokesley
CROFT William Marske
CROUDACE George yeoman Co Durham, Streatlam
DALE Charles menial servant Buttercrambe
DAWE/DOVE William Cleveland, Easby
DAWSON Richard Sinnington cum Marton
DINNIS William servant Kildale & Westerdale
DOBSON John yeoman Co Durham, Stockton
DOBSON Robert Halliday Dromanby
ERRINGTON Thomas esquire Chirts?
FOXTON Robert Wath & Sinderby
FOXTON William yeoman Scackleton
FRANK Thomas jnr yeoman Skelton & Kilton
FRYER John yeoman Scorton
GARBUT William jnr gent Cleveland, Ormesby
GILL John menial servant East Rosedale
GLAVE Thomas yeoman Theakston
GORDON James gent Middleton Tyas
HALL Christopher yeoman Kirby Knowle
HALL John yeoman Guisborough
HAMMOND Henry Bedale, Crakehall
HARRISON Thomas surgeon Kirbymoorside
HUDSON Joseph menial servant Helmsley
HUMPHREY George yeoman Thornton Watlass
HUMPHREY James Wensley
HUNTON William jnr Carlton
JACKSON John Sinnington cum Marton
JACKSON George Great Ayton
JENNETT John farmer Ormesby
JOBSON Christopher Lythe
KINGSTON Thomas Appleton Wiske
KITCHING James gent Romaldkirk
LANGHORN John yeoman Reeth
LAW William Egton, Newbiggin
LAX John yeoman Barton
LIEF William Langbaurgh Liberty
LITTLEFAIR William yeoman Marrick, Hurst
LOCKEY John yeoman Middleton Tyas
MASON Peter yeoman Swainby & Whorlton
MILBOURN Matthew yeoman Stokesley
MONTY Thomas menial servant Bedale, Hornby
MORTGETROY John servant man Ebberston
MOSS Robert Scargill
OASTLER Thomas Newsham
OATES Richard several manors
OUTHWAITE George yeoman Hunton
PALMER John Barton
PARKER William jnr Kirby Hill
PARKINSON Christopher husbandman Moulton
PEACOCK Thomas Harkerside, Grinton
PEACOCK Robert gent Danby Wiske, Catgill
PETCHY William menial servant Bedale
PICKERING William yeoman Thornton Watlass
PURCHAS William jnr Thoralby
RENNISON Michael Lartington
RIDELL John? menial servant Ingleby Greenhow
ROUD Robert yeoman Carlton Miniott
SANDERSON Reuben Low Worsall
SECRE John gent Dishforth
SHEPHERD Joseph Douthwaite
SMEATON Thomas Sneaton
SMITH John yeoman Hornby
SNOWDEN William Eston
THIRKILL William Wass
THISTLE Matthew yeoman Whitby, Aislaby
THOMPSON Daniel Whitby, Sneaton
TODD Joseph husbandman Halnaby
TOPHAM John yeoman Hunton
TOPHAM Lupton gent Middleham
TUTIN William Aiskew
TUTIN William servant Forcett
TUTIN Thomas gent Kirby Fleetham, Fencote
WESTWICK William Upleatham
WHARTON Robert Co Durham, Old Park
WILSON Richard gent Upleatham
WILSON Michael yeoman Langton Hall
WOOD William yeoman Nawton
WOODWARD William yeoman Lythe
YOUNG John gent Whitby