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| English: Taxes, Lists, Business, Electoral and Insurance Records | |
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| | This course includes discussions on how tax & electoral records, religious & loyalty lists, annuities, tontines, insurance, friendly society, & business records can assist family history research. The emphasis is on understanding the original purpose of the records & their usefulness to family historians, with practical details of availability, accessibility and usage.
Course Content
Module 1
GATEWAYS TO ENGLISH ARCHIVES & LIBRARIES
TAX RECORDS
Definitions
Taxes
Feudal Aids 1066-1660
Lay Subsidies
Early Lay Subsidies 1207-1332
Tudor & Stuart Lay Subsidies 1522-1671
Clerical Taxation
Tenths & Fifteenths 1334-1623
Forced Loans & Prerogative Taxes
Poll Taxes
Income Taxes
Alien Subsidies 1440-1512
Certificates of Residence 1558-1625
Monthly &
Modulely Assessments 1642-1680
Decimation Tax 1655
Free & Voluntary Present 1661-1662
Royal Aids 1661-1834
Module 2
TAX RECORDS
Hearth Tax 1662-1689
Land Tax 1692-1963
Registration (or Marriage) Tax 1695-1706
House Tax 1696-1834
Window Tax 1696-1851
Georgian Assessed Taxes
House Duty 1851-1924
Gun Tax 1870-1882
Purchase (Sales) Tax 1940
Module 3
TAX RECORDS
Highway & Surveyors'' Rates
Constables Rates
Poor Rates 1601-1865
Union Rates 1865-1925
Town Rates
General Rates 1925-1990
Using Rate Books
Duties or Tariffs
Import & Export Duties (Customs)
Manufacture or Sale of Goods (Excise)
Transfer of property
Licences
Legal recognition of documents
Finding Taxation Records
Module 4
ELECTORAL RECORDS
The Poor Law Franchise
The Local Government Franchise
Vestries
Municipal Corporations
Metropolitan Board of Works (MBW)
County Councils & County Borough Councils
Local Government outside London
Burial Board Franchise
School Board Franchise
The Parliamentary Franchise
Early Electoral Records
Freeholders (Jury) Lists
Burgess (Freemen) Rolls
Poll Books 1694-1872
Electoral Registers 1832-date
Recent Electoral Registers
National Registration Scheme 1915
Other Political Election Records
Module 5
RELIGIOUS, LOYALTY & OTHER LISTS
Aliens & Refugees Lists
Foreign Protestants & Aliens 1618-1688
Registration of Aliens 1793-1869
Refugees 1788-1919
Collection in Aid of Distressed Protestants in Ireland 1641/2
Compton Census 1676
Exiles'' Lists
Flax Bounty 1784-1795
King or Queen''s Bounty
Loyalty Lists
Vow and Covenant 1643
Solemn League and Covenant 1643-1644
Jacobite Rebellion 1745
Oaths
Thirty Nine Articles of Faith from 1511
Oath of Supremacy 1559
Protestation Returns 1641-1642
Oaths of Supremacy & Allegiance to the Crown 1660-1689
Declaration against Transubstantiation 1672
Solemn Association or Oath of Association 1695-6
Oath of Abjuration 1702
Oath of Allegiance 1714-1715
Oaths of Allegiance from 1722
Parliamentary Papers
Petitions
Sacrament Certificates 1672-1828
Subscribers
Treasury Books
Trustees
Finding Religious, Loyalty & Other Lists
TONTINES & ANNUITIES
State Tontines and Annuities
Tontine & Annuity Records
Other Tontines and Annuities
Module 6
INSURANCE
Development of Marine Insurance
Records of Marine Insurance
Development of Fire Insurance
Records of Fire Insurance
Development of Life & Accident Assurance
Guilds & Trade Organizations
Burial Clubs
Freemasons
Friendly Societies
Benevolent Societies
Life Assurance Companies
Accident Assurance
20th Century Insurance Developments
Health Insurance
Pensions
Module 7
BUSINESS RECORDS
Sole Traders & Partnerships
Companies
Histories of Businesses
Business Registration & Licences
Business Records
Banking
Bankrupts
Gentlemen''s Clubs
Trade Directories
INTEGRATION OF RECORDS
REFERENCES
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