Hearth Tax Records?

[truebritmega]

hmmm lol ty, protestation records? thats another one ive never heard of LOL (just on an offside, i discovered a while back too, there where window taxes in Wolverhampton! many were against the tax, so one building even still today , in victoria street, has some of its windows filled in upstairs where they did it to avoid paying the tax LOL)


Thank you very much... what are protestation records?

[behindthefrogs]

In 1641every man over the age of 18 was asked to sign the protestation oath after it was read out in churches.  It was a declaration "to live and die for the true protestant religion.....

Lists were formed of those who signed and didn't sign and most of these were in the House of Lords Record Office.  Some are located with parish records and some have been published by county record societies.

David

[Redroger]

This declaration was at least as voluntary as some of the 104% turnouts in a variety of elections across the globe!

[truebritmega]

phew, it slucky it was voluntary, most of my fam were roman catholic LOL

[Redroger]

But it was only voluntary if you wanted your arm broken for not signing!

[docbones]

There is a fairly new website called Hearth Tax Online which has downloadable surname lists and transcripts for a number of counties.

There is also a Centre for Hearth Tax Research, and its website has a lot of useful information about the context of the tax and where to locate further information.

[Redroger]

Thanks, those sites look as though they will be extremely useful to me.

[truebritmega]

Oh well done finding those!! (its been so long back I forget what line I was tracing with them lol )