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To facilitate further research those records that have been systematically searched are listed here. The usual variants like Broket, Brokit, Brokat, Brokett, Brokitt, Brokatt, Brockett, Brockitt, Brockatt, Brochet, Brecket, Brocat, Broquet, Broget, Brockell have always been checked, and often Braket etc.

Note: These lists are so far only partially complete.

Contents of this page:   
 1. Calendars of Rolls 5. Education 9. 1837-1905
  2. Censuses 6. IPMs 10. State Papers
  3. Companies 7. Marriage indexes 11. Wills
  4. County records 8. Parish Registers  

1. Calendars of Rolls

  1. Charter rolls (Rotuli Litterarum Chartarum, London 1837, 44): 1199-1216, 1224-7, 1226-1417, 1427-1516.
  2. Close: 1204-1509 (Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum, London 1833)
  3. Curia Regis:
  4. Ducatus Lancastriae, London 1834: vols 1-3
  5. Fine: 1307-1509
  6. Liberate Rolls: King John, 1226-72
  7. Miscellaneous Inquisitions: vols 1-7 (Henry III - 1422)
  8. Patent: 1201-1582 (end of printed Calendars)
  9. Pipe: 1130-1230
  10. Placito de Quo Warranto: Edward I, II, III London 1818
  11. Rotuli Scotiae, London 1814: vol 1 (Edward I, II, III) vol 2 (Richard II - Henry VIII)
  12. Testa de Nevil: Henry III and Edward I.

2. Censuses

  1. England and Wales
    1. 1841: Abbington Piggotts; Bassingbourn; Guilden Morden; Steeple Morden
    2. 1851: Guilden Morden; London
    3. 1861: Guilden Morden
    4. 1871: Ashwell; Bassingbourn; Guilden Morden; Steeple Morden; Stotfold
    5. 1881: IGI transcription for all England and Wales
    6. 1891: Bassingbourn; Guilden Morden; Steeple Morden; Therfield
    7. 1901: online transcription for all England and Wales
  2. Scotland: 1881, 1891, 1901.

 

3. Companies

  1. Fishmongers
  2. Merchant Tailors

 

4. County records

  1. Durham: DUASC; Gateshead Library; online catalogue
  2. Hampshire burial and will indexes.
  3. Hertfordshire: Brigg 1895.
  4. London Guildhall
  5. Yorkshire: YAJ vos 1-42.
  6. Scotland
  7. VCH: Bedfordshire; Cambridge and the Isle of Ely; Essex; Hertfordshire; City of York.

 

5. Education

  1. Apprenticeship records
  2. Cambridge University: Venn and Venn; Trinity College Archives.
  3. Eton College: Only partially searched.
  4. Inns of Court
  5. Oxford University: Foster; Magdalen College Archives.

 

6. IPMs

There are 14 Brockett IPMs in the PRO, dating between 1477 and 1623, mostly on parchment. The 2 sons of Thomas and Dionisia who went south both had IPMs carried out on their property: Thomas for Essex and Herts and Edward—Thomas' heir—for Herts. The remaining IPMs all concerned Edward's descendants.

 

7. Marriage indexes

  1. Allens Marriage Index for Hertfordshire
  2. Yorkshire Marriage index

 

8. Parish Registers

In addition to the IGI, within which a systematic study was made of all baptisms 1600-49, the following actual registers—or transcriptions—have been searched:

  1. Bedfordshire: all parishes
  2. Hitchin 1562-82
  3. Guilden Morden
  4. Quadring
  5. Wheathampstead
  6. Scotland: Statutory records began in Scotland in 1855. Prior to that information is found in the Old Parish Records (OPRs) except for deaths, which are only found in the statutory records, i.e. from 1855. All Scottish births and marriages 1553-1901 and deaths 1855-1926 have been searched.
  7. York City:
    1. All Saints Pavement (YPRS vol
    2. All Saints North
    3. Holy Trinity Goodram
    4. Holy Trinity Kings C
    5. Holy Trinity Mickelg
    6. Minster Yard
    7. St Crux
    8. St Denys and St George
    9. St Cuthbert
    10. St Helen's Stonegate. Photocopy of the originals in York City Library PR.Y.HEL.1—not transcribed in the YPRS series nor in the IGI. Studied marriages, baptisms and burials from their beginning to marriages 1594 (f 51), and baptisms / burials 1620 (ff 24r, 96).
    11. St John Ousebridge
    12. St Lawrence
    13. St Margaret
    14. St Martin Coney Street
    15. St Martin-cum-Gregory (Bulmer 1897)
    16. St Mary Bishopgate Junior
    17. St Mary Bishopgate Senior
    18. St Mary Castlegate
    19. St Maurice
    20. St Michael Belfrey
    21. St Michael Spurrier
    22. St Nicholas
    23. St Olave
    24. St Sampson
    25. St Saviour
  8. Yorkshire: Appleton

 

9. 1837-1905

St Catherines and Scottish BMD.

See Statistics 1855-1954.

 

10. State Papers

  1. Domestic: 1656-1704
  2. Foreign: 1547-96
  3. Home Office: 1760-75

 

11. Wills

i. London

  1. DUASC
  2. Guildhall Library
  3. PCC
  4. Probate Court

ii. Other Courts

  1. BRO
  2. Cambridgeshire Record Office
  3. DRO
  4. Essex
  5. HRO
  6. Huntingdon Record Office
  7. Lincoln
  8. Scotland 1500-1875: 12 wills (http://www.scottishdocuments.com/content/displayadresults.asp June 2002—SCAN)
  9. Suffolk

     

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