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Marriage Duty Tax return

Marriage Duty Tax return

This is a transcription (by Jeremy Hutson) of the return for the Marriage Duty Tax for 1696, D/Sa/E 962, which appears to be a complete list of the population of Tudhoe at the time, listed household by household.

There are no entries in the Marriage Duty Tax return in the columns for widdowers, burials, birth and marriages. These colums have been used here for the window counts listed as “Old ass” and “Sur” in the 1697 Window Tax assessors accounts, and any relationship to households listed in the 1705 Recusant Roll.

 
Certaine Rates & Duties Assessed & taxed by yr Assessors Appointed fo ...
ship of Tuddoe for the year 96 upon an act of parliament fo...
to his majesty certaine rates and duties upon marriages, Births...
& upon Batchelors and widdowers for the terme of 5 years, come...
the first Anno 1695

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Persons names & sirnames          Qualities  Batchelrs Widdowrs Burials Births Marriages
                                  & degrees
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Ralph Salvin                      Gentleman  Batchelor               20  20
Francis Salvin his house keeper                               (RS's successor
Will Dunn                                                      listed as papist
Will Davison    his men servants                               in 1705 with
Elizabeth Mason                                                2 menservants,
Elizabeth Taylor                                               4 womenservants)
Eleanor And
Mary Shadforth  his woman servants
--------------------------------
Henry Sedgwick high Constable                Batchelor                5  18
Widdow Sedgwick
James Sedgwick
Geo: Sedgwick   her sons
Ann Sedgwick
Mary Sedgwick   her daughters
Will Cheswick   her man servant
Ann ??rinton    her maid servt
--------------------------------
Henry Wilson                      farmers    Batchelors              10  10
Richard Wilson
John Redhead
Isabel Spark
Martha Dodgson  their servants
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Thomas Wilson                     farmer                              5  10
Margaret his wife
Thomas Wilson   their son
Mary Wilson
Elizabeth Wilson
Margaret Wilson their daughters
Geo: Sedgwick
Jane Brown      their servants
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Richard Byers                     yeoman                              4   4
Elizabeth his wife                                                 (Ralph Byers)
Ralph Byers     their son
Honoria Byers   their daughter
Thomas Thornbury
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Emery Richardson                  farmer                              6   7
Alice his wife
Peter Richardson
Ralph Richardson  their sons Peter & Ralph  Batchelors
Thomas Richardson
Margarett Richardson
Mary Richardson their daughts.
Will Rodds      their manservant
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Geo: Richardson                   farmer                              6   9
Catherine his wife                                                  (assessor)
John Richardson their son
Ann Richardson  their daughter
John Hamsdal
Elizabeth Haslop their servants
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William Griffin                                               (listed as
Margarett his wife                                             papists in 1705)
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John Richardson                   yeoman                              4   6
Ann his wife                                                        (assessor)
Ann Richardson  their daughter
John Richardson Senior
Elizabeth Jackson their madse

   

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Persons names & sirnames          Qualities  Batchelrs Widdowrs Burials Births Marriages
                                  & degrees
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George Pickering                  farmer                              5   6
Ann his wife
George Pickering
Thomas Pickering
Henry Pickering   their sons
Grace Pickering   their daughter
John Pickering                               Batchlor
George Noble      
John Boyes        their servants
Eleanor Dason     madserv
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Geo: Joplin                       Blacksmith                          5  10
Jane his wife                                                      (collector)
George Joplin
John Joplin       their sons
Catherine Joplin
Jane Joplin
Ann Joplin
Ann Jackson       one of the family
Mary Rickerby     their maidservant
--------------------------------
William Byerly                    yeoman                             10  10
Ann his wife                                                        (exempt)
Thomas Byerly
Robert Byerly     their sons                                  (Widow Byerley
Francis Byerly                                                 + 2 children
Margaret Byerly                                                and William B
Ann Byerly                                                     listed as papists
Mary Byerly       their daughters                              in 1705)
--------------------------------
Ralph Bowron                      farmer                             10  11
Jane his wife
Ralph Bowron
John Bowron
Robert Bowron     their sons
Mary Bowron
Jane Bowron
Ann Bowron        their daughters
Sarah Robinson
Margaret Haggerston  their maid servants
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Ralph Trotter                     Farmer
Dorothea his wife
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John Readhead                     farmer                              3?  4
Frances his wife
Richard Readhead  their son
Mary Redhead      their daughter
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Nicholas Fishburne                Milner                              4   5
Margarett his wife
George Rhodes     
Mary Wheatly      their servants
--------------------------------
Henry Wheatly                     Taylor
Elizabeth his wife
Henry Wheatley    their son
Anne Wheatley     their daughter
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John Wilson                       meal-maker                         10  14
Mary his wife
William Wilson   
Nicholas Wilson   their sons
Jane Wilson 
Mary Wilson       their daughters
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Robert Normand                    Mason                               2   3
Dorothy his wife                                            (RN, wife + daughter
Mary Normand      their daughter                             listed as papists
Guy Wilson        their apprentice                           in 1705)
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Michael Wheatly                   Taylor
Mary his wife
Michaell Wheatly  their son
Margaret Wheatly  their daughter
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Persons names & sirnames          Qualities  Batchelrs Widdowrs Burials Births Marriages
                                  & degrees
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Ralph Dunn                        Labourer                    (not in 1697 WT,
Margaret his wife                                              but Ralph moved
Ralph Dunn                Ralph   Mason      Batchlr           to Byerley house
John Dunn                 John    Butcher    Batchlr           before 1702)
George Dunn                                              (all 4 sons listed as
Jerrard Dunn      their sons                              papists in 1705,
                                                          Ralph with wife +
                                                          2 servants) 
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Thomas Anderson                   Farmer                              3   3
Dorothy his wife
Elizabeth Anderson
Hannah Anderson   their daughters
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William Longstaff                 Milner
Ann his wife
Margarett Longstaff their daughter
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Jerrard Spark                     farmer                              2   3
Margarett his wife                                                 (collector)
Mary his daughter
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Thomas Atkinson                   Labourer               (TA (alone)
Margaret his wife                                         listed as papist
Margaret Harper   her daughter                            in 1705)
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Edward Strong                     Labourer                            2   2
Mary his wife
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Matthew Reah                      Labourer               (MR + wife + 2 children
Margery his wife                                          listed as papists
                                                          in 1705)
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Widdow Ann Unthank                Spinster
Ann Unthank
Sarah Unthank
Margaret Unthank
William Unthank   her children
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Jane Wilson                       Spinster
Margaret Wilson   her daught.     Spinster
Charles Wheatley  her son
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John Wilson                       yeoman
Isabel his wife
Alice Mason       their servant
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Isabel Eleanor                    Spinsters
Judith Mason
Elizabeth Kirtley
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William Richardson                Labourer
Mary his wife
Jane Richardson  their daughter
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William Bell                      Labourer                            2   2
Isabel his wife                                                      exempt
Richard Bell     their Nephew
Mary Bell        their Neice
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William Wheatley                  Labourer
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William Person                    Labourer
Isabel his wife
Charles Person
John Person
Isabel Person
Dorothy Person   their children
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William Allen                     Weaver                              2   2
Catherine his wife
William Allen
John Allen
Nicholas Allen
Jane Allen       their children
Tho: Turpin      their Apprentice
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Persons names & sirnames          Qualities  Batchelrs Widdowrs Burials Births Marriages
                                  & degrees
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Thomas Katton                     Whitesmith             (TC + wife + 3 children
Ann his wife                                              listed as papists
Thomas Katton                                             in 1705. TC the younger,
Michael Katton   their sons                               spurrier, also listed)
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Robert Coleman                    farmer                              3   4
Ann his wife
John Coleman     his son
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The names of such as have
the Church Alms
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Richard Crooks                                           (RC + wife + 2 children
Elizabeth his wife                                        listed as papists
Jo: Crooks                                                in 1705)
Will Crooks
Anthony Crooks
Bartholomew Crooks  their sone
Ann Crooks          their daughter
John Bulman         one of the family
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Henry Wheatly
Elizabeth his wife
Robert Wheatly      his son
Mary Wheatley
Ann Wheatley
Jane Wheatly
Elizabeth Wheatly
Margaret Wheatly
Katherine Wheatly   his daughters
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Margaret Rickison                 Spinster
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George Kirtley                                           (Ann Kirkley, widow,
Maudlin his wife                                          + 1 child
Christopher Kirtley                                       listed as papists 
Henry Kirtley                                             in 1705)
William Kirtley
Mary Kirtley
Ann Kirtley          his children
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Richard Cosser
Jane his wife
John Coser
George Coser
Robert Coser
Ralph Coser
Elizabeth Coser      their children
--------------------------------
Henry Hillary
Mary his wife
William Hillary
Elizabeth Hillary    their children
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Ann Taylor widdow
Francis Taylor       her son
Ann Taylor
Jane Taylor          her daughters
--------------------------------
John Robinson
Mary his wife
John Robinson        his son
Margarett Robinson   his daughter
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Isabell Spark
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Robert Byerly
Frances his wife
Charles Byerley      their son
Lucy Byerley
Mary Byerley         their daught
--------------------------------
Henry Richardson
Mary his wife
John Richardson      his son
Ann Richardson
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It is remarkable that nearly everyone listed as a papist in 1705 is given as “yeoman”, even those listed as “labourer” in the 1696 Marriage Duty Tax return.

The only householder who paid window tax in 1697 but was not listed for the Marriage Duty Tax in 1696 was John Smith (old ass 7, sur 8). He is listed as a papist in 1705, with his wife and 2 servants.

Others in the 1705 list of papists who are in neither the Marriage Duty Tax return nor the Window Tax returns are:
Thomas Thornberry, weaver
Thomas Johnson, yeoman
Peter Crags, yeoman, with wife and 2 servants
Widow Norman
Thomas Grinwell, yeoman, with wife and 3 children
Margaret Gramshaw, spinster.

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