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D'avenant Surname Ancestry Results

Our indexes 1000-1999 include entries for the spelling 'd'avenant'. In the period you have requested, we have the following 15 records (displaying 1 to 10): 

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Harley family papers (1690-1708)
This collection of letters and papers is particularly interesting in that it includes a file of petitions and memorials to queen Anne from 1704 to 1708, and a similar file of petitions to Robert Harley in his post as Secretary of State during the same years. The collection includes a few items earlier than 1690. Mostly relates to Britain and Ireland.

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Harley family papers
 (1690-1708)
Treasury Books (1713)
Records of the Treasury administration in Britain, America and the colonies, for 1713. Also includes Queen Anne's Civil List (royal expenditure) Lottery papers: payment of the royal servants had fallen two years in arrear: Parliament passed an Act allowing the queen to raise half a million pounds by pledging 32 years' future income: she did this by means of a lottery.

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Treasury Books
 (1713)
Treasury Books (1714-1715)
Records of the Treasury administration in Britain and the colonies, for August 1714 to December 1715. This is a digest of Treasury Minute Books T29/21-22; Disposition Books T61/22-23; King's Warrants T52/24, 26-29; Order Books T60/8-9; Plantation Auditor Out Letters T64/90; Caveat Book T64/40; Warrants Relating to Money T53/14, 16-25; Warrants Not Relating to Money T54/21-24; Lord Chamberlain's Warrants T56/18; Queen Anne's Debts T56/34; Customs Out Letters T11/16; General Out Letters T27/21-23; Ireland Out Letters T14/9-10; North Britain (Scotland) Out Letters T17/2-3; Affairs of Taxes T22/2; Reference Books T4/8-9; and Register of Papers Read at the Treasury Board T4/19: prepared by William A. Shaw for the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury.

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Treasury Books
 (1714-1715)
Treasury Books (1717)
Records of the Treasury administration in Britain, America and the colonies, for 1717. These also include records of the appointment and replacement of customs officers such as tide waiters and surveyors.

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Treasury Books
 (1717)
Exchequer (1741)
'A General List, or Catalogue, Of all the Offices and Officers Employ'd In the several Branches of his Majesty's Government Ecclesiastical, Civil, Military, &c. In South-Britain, or England' gives the names (and often the annual salaries) of the government functionaries, civil servants, churchmen and military, systematically arranged section by section. Section 24 lists the Lord Commissioners for executing the office of Treasurer of the Exchequer and other officers, officers of his Majesty's Receipt of Exchequer, the Tax-Office in the Exchequer, including tellers, clerks and money porters.

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Exchequer
 (1741)
The Royal Household Below Stairs (1741)
'A General List, or Catalogue, Of all the Offices and Officers Employ'd In the several Branches of his Majesty's Government Ecclesiastical, Civil, Military, &c. In South-Britain, or England' gives the names (and often the annual salaries) of the government functionaries, civil servants, churchmen and military, systematically arranged section by section. Section 81 lists his Majesty's Household Officers and Servants attending in the several Offices Below Stairs, arranged by department - the Board of Green Cloth; Accompting House; Bake House; Pantry; Buttery; Cellar; Spicery; Confectionery; Ewry; Laundress; King's Privy Kitchen; Queen's Privy Kitchen; Household Kitchen; Larder; Acatery; Poultry; Scalding House; Pastry; Scullery; Wood Yard; Harbingers; Almoner; Gate Porters; Verge; Bread Bearer; Wine Porters; Table Deckers and Purveyors; and staff at Somerset House and Marshalsea.

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The Royal Household Below Stairs 
 (1741)
Members of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts &c. (1766)
A List of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, 18 August 1766.

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Members of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts &c.
 (1766)
National ArchivesClerks and apprentices (1778)
Apprenticeship indentures and clerks' articles were subject to a 6d or 12d per pound stamp duty: the registers of the payments usually give the master's trade, address, and occupation, and the apprentice's name, as well as details of the date and length of the apprenticeship. 26 August to 30 December 1778. IR 1/30

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Clerks and apprentices
 (1778)
Inhabitants of Market Drayton in Shropshire (1790-1797)
The provincial sections of the Universal British Directory include lists of gentry and traders from each town and the surrounding countryside, with names of local surgeons, lawyers, postmasters, carriers, &c. (the sample scan here is from the section for Hull). The directory started publication in 1791, but was not completed for some years, and the provincial lists, sent in by local agents, can date back as early as 1790 and as late as 1797.

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Inhabitants of Market Drayton in Shropshire
 (1790-1797)
Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions (1811)
Death notices and obituaries, marriage and birth notices, civil and military promotions, clerical preferments and domestic occurrences, as reported in the Gentleman's Magazine. Mostly from England and Wales, but items from Ireland, Scotland and abroad.

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Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
 (1811)
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