This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Newmarket races and society notices in a single page
The page records marriages including Rev Bainbrigg and Rev Thomas named as curates replacing Rev Tidswell, weddings of John Wilkins and Susanna Terry, and Thomas Dundas’s marriage to Miss Fitzwilliams with a Moorpark departure. It also details Newmarket Second Spring meetings, racing results with multiple horses and purses, and a canal drainage order for St James's Park. It reports crime, a drowning near Somerset House, a fatal jump attempt, a fire at Sun tavern, meat weight fraud investigations, ship arrivals and exports, and weekly mortality and illness tallies with stock market notes and naval movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stampe Brooksbank
Helaugh
County of York
Jaft
St. Leonard’s
Wilkinson
Susanna Terry
Harting
Sussex
Thomas Dundas
Sir Laurence Dundas
Miss Fitzwiliams
Fitzwilliams
Moorpark
Hertfordshire
Newmarket
Shafto
Cardinal Putt
Babram
Crimp
Duke of Grafton
Confederate
South
B.C
Sir J. Moore
Oraauoko
Mr. Shafto
Doctor
Jockey Club
Mr. Grevile
H. Dortmond
Old Cade
Northumberland
Wilson
Rockingham
H. Bowzer
Blank D. Kingston
H. Manby
Grosvenor
Duke
Mr. Wentworth
Regulus
M. Dupe
Newcomb
D. Grafton
Snip
Bridgewater
Chef
Blank
March
Tip-Top
Ancaster
Spectator
Wall
R. H
Duke’s Bay c
Swas
Duke of
Shafio’s Bay
Snap Ty Guineas
St. James's Parky
Seeaiber
Forster
Whitecross-treet
Barnevelt
Coates
Favourite
Meggitt
Trial
Brocklebank
Neptune
Walmsley
London
Hull