DBY, Dalbury Land Tax List

DBY, DALBURY LAND TAX; 1810, 1821

Compliments of Michael SPENCER.

First introduced in 1693, these docs can help a family historian locate an ancestor and may even indicate within a year when ones ancestors moved from one village to another. Very few survive before 1780,but between that year and 1832 the Land Tax has good coverage if not almost total. They list names of proprietors and occupiers and the amount of tax assessed. They give therefore a list of people in your ancestral village for any given year, but not a list of all people in that village or town. Later years also list Names or Description of Estates or Property but in most cases it simply lists house or land.

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DALBURY 1810

PROPRIETOR OCCUPIER
Rev R.R. WARD John REDSHAW
Mrs MARSH Mrs ARMISHAW
Mr BOWER Thomas CAMPION
Mr SPILSBURY John HINKLEY
Mr COX John HINKLEY
Mr POLE John HINKLEY
Rev Mr GREEN Rev Mr GREEN
Mr FOX Samuel SHAW
Mr POLE Robert BEARD
Mr POLE John WHITE
Mr POLE John PARKER
Mr WALTERS Henry WALTERS
Mr MEYNEL Samuel MORLEY
Mr REDSHAW Samuel REDSHAW
Mr TURNER Robert TURNER
Mr ROBINSON Joseph LEE
Mr GELL William HOLDEN
Mr SHEPPERD Ann PARKER
Mr POLE Joseph HILL
Mrs MANLOVE Samuel STEER
Mrs MANLOVE Simon LANGLEY
Mr POLE John MATHERS
Mr SPENDLOVE Anthony SPENDLOVE
Mr POLE Anthony SPENDLOVE
Mr TURNER Robert TURNER
Mr POLE Anthony SPENDLOVE

Samuel SHAW and Charles REDSHAW were Assessors and Collectors.

In 1821 many of the names were the same, but there were differences.

PROPRIETORS OCCUPIERS
The Rev R WARD John REDSHAW
William BROWN John WOLLATT
RICHARDSON James HOLMES
The Rev SPILSBURY John HINKLEY
E.S.C. POLE Esq. John HINKLEY
The Rev C.E. COTTON Himself
FOX Samuel REDSHAW
E.S.C.POLE Esq. Robert BEARD
E.S.C. POLE Esq. John WHITE
E.S.C. POLE Esq. Anthony PARKER
John WHITE John WHITE
REDSHAW Samuel REDSHAW
ARCHER Samuel REDSHAW
Henry WALTERS Himself
Anthony SPENDLOVE Himself
POLE Anthony SPENDLOVE
Robert TURNER Himself
PEACH William TURNER
GELL William HOULDEN
John MATHER Himself
E.S.C.POLE Esq. John MATHER
E.S.C.POLE Esq. P HANSON
E.S.C POLE Esq. Thomas HALL
E.S.C.POLE Esq. William BRIAN

Assessors and Collectors were John REDSHAW and James HOLMES

I have not listed the tax, that would be to much to copy but from the two assessments I can see that the Mr Bower/Thomas Campion combination of 1810 is replaced by Richardson and James Holmes. Mr Meynel /Samuel Morley is replaced by owner occupier John White. In both years as the highest tax paid John Beard pays the most.

I was able to use LTA's to trace the year my ancestor became the miller at Sidesmill, Snelston. As a result I was able to find the advert in the Derby Mercury advertising the vacancy which gave a take up date, so I could say almost to the day when they left Lea for Snelston. I was also able to trace where he went after Snelston, he only being listed for a few years. He turned up at Hartington, again at the mill, why did he move? That year his sister's husband William had died and she was pregnant, he took on the running of the mill.

Mike