Falling Leaves

Gloucestershire genealogy and more…

House History

March 13th, 2008 at 7:37pm |

I attended a wonderful workshop session yesterday, run by Averil Kear for the Friends of Gloucestershire Archives on tracing the history of a house.We had a presentation showing us the sort of things we should be looking for and then we spent an hour looking at individual documents that had come from the archives. […]

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Gloucestershire Hearth Tax

March 4th, 2008 at 2:15pm |

Yesterday, I had a look at the Hearth Tax returns for Gloucestershire. They cover the period from 1671/2 and include a list of names of those people with houses worth more than 20 shillings a year and who also paid church or poor rates. So they are lists of the wealthier people in […]

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