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Norfolk: Baconsthorpe 1790 - Churchwardens' Rate

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Baconsthorpe raised money at various times, to either support its poor (from the Overseers' Rate) or to pay for other parish expenses (from the Churchwardens' Rate). This rate was levied on the occupiers (who may not have owned the land) and based upon the value of the property (which was usually a rental valuation). Both occupiers and owners are found living in and outside the parish.

For more information on these records see the Parish Accounts page.


This is one item from a Norfolk Record Office document [with the reference PD 334/15 and microform MF 969/2] containing the Churchwardens' accounts book for 1722-1838 and this is the rate for 1790.

Other accounts available

      
- Churchwardens' Accounts -    
Rates1768179018101827-29 
Payments1711-121723-281768-82  
      
Collections for
special appeals
1670 (Turkish
Slaves appeal)
1703-04 Wapping and
Gt Massingham Fires,
Distressed Protestants
(Holland)
  
- Surveyors' Accounts -    
Rates1773    
- Land Tax Accounts -    
Payments1800-01    

 

[Transcription copyright © Mike Bristow]

April the 5th 1790 We Nominate and appoint Churchwardens for the year ensuing
John Springall
Robt Ives
by us
T Girdlestone Rector
T Elwin
Francis Means

Baconsthorpe April 5th 1790

A Rate made by the Churchwardens Overseers and other the Chief Inhabitants of the said parish for presentments & Disbursments about the Church at a rate of 1d per pound.

Valuation
£:s
[Occupiers' Names]£  sd
052:10Mr Thomas Elwin0  4  4½
108:0John Springall0  9  0
002:5    More for Philip Cranfiels0  0  2¼
126:0Robert Ives010  6
036:0Marker Fisher0  3  0
008:0    More for Brown's0  0  8
121:0Francis Means010  1
002:0    More for John Massingham0  0  2
064:0Peter Wilson0  5  4
035:0John Smith0  211
020:0John Spurrell0  1  8
024:15John Warns0  2  0¾
027:0William Grand0  2  3
016:15Robert Mayes0  1  4¾
006:0James Ford0  0  6
002:5Epher Silence0  0  2¼
 Out Setters   
063:10William Craffer0  5  3
033:10Peter Parnal0  2  9½
008:0Thomas Frankland0  0  8
048:0Thomas Bishop0  4  0
003:0Thomas Cooper0  0  3
009:0John Rump0  0  9
005:0Robert Partridge0  0  5

 
821:0Total3  8  5

April the 25th 1791 These Accounts on both sides are this day allow'd & agreed to by us
[signed] T Girdlestone Rector
Thos Elwin
John Warns
Robt Mayes
Marker Fisher

 

[End of Document]


Notes

  • In other rate documents the following alternative spellings have been seen which appear to refer to the same people/places:-
    Cranfiel/Cranefield, Parnal/Pernol
  • T Girdlestone is Theophilus Girdlestone incumbent from 16/May/1788 to 1832 (buried 27/7/1832 aged 73 years).

See also the Baconsthorpe parish page.

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July 2009