Thank you, Margaret and Linda, for bringing this topic to our attention. I’m noting the stress! The Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire Protestation Returns were transcribed by W.F.Webster in 1980 and published by the Thoroton Society. http://www.thorotonsociety.org.uk/index.htm Copies of their Transactions can be purchased directly from them - they are cheaper if you become a member. Amazon has used copies available now for £14.99 – not much more of a cost than buying a single BMD certificate. Could be worth thinking about? WFW also transcribed the Nottinghamshire Hearth Tax 1664-1674 returns which can be bought similarly. For those unfamiliar with these transcriptions you can be assured that they are 100% reliable (or as near as dammit is to swearing) because they have been transcribed and described by palaeographers/historians. All Local Studies Centres within the County – and probably neighbouring Counties - will have copies of these particular Transactions: if they haven’t then you could suggest that they think about buying in copies. Some FHS will have them too. They are very useful to genealogists and family historians and w/should not be considered by them as idle purchases. There are other Tax records which survive in some areas, (e.g. for windows, hair powder, carriages, dogs, sheep, distressed Protestants in France/Ireland, poll books, etc. ad nauseam) so it is well worth checking with individual Record Offices and University Archives to see what is around. See here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/familyhistory/next_steps/adv_07_17_and_18_01.sh tml#ten and for a comprehensive list with dates see here: https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/England_Taxation Almost all of this information will not be found on websites. Much has not yet been transcribed and put on paper even. But a lot has and can be found by asking the questions in the right places – don’t flounder around but go direct - then share what is found on Forums such as this one. Thanks again, Linda and Margaret, Ruth

I discovered the transcriptions in a book at the SoG this morning. So definitely worth a visit if you are in striking distance. Sadly confirmed my reading of the original,. My ancestor isn't in Stapleford. There an index, so i looked for the name elsewhere in the county. There were 2 so I need to follow them up. Always nice to have something to follow up. I photocopied the Stapleford page, and the photocopy included Skegby, Strelley, and Sutton in Ashfield, if anyone has a query about a name in those villages. Plus a village which was unnamed in the original, but is possibly Teversal. Thanks for the invitation about the hearth tax, Ruth. I shall pursue that too... Margaret Sent from my Windows Phone ________________________________ From: Ruth Genda<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: ‎01/‎04/‎2017 10:20 To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>; [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NTT] Protestation Returns Thank you, Margaret and Linda, for bringing this topic to our attention. I’m noting the stress! The Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire Protestation Returns were transcribed by W.F.Webster in 1980 and published by the Thoroton Society. http://www.thorotonsociety.org.uk/index.htm Copies of their Transactions can be purchased directly from them - they are cheaper if you become a member. Amazon has used copies available now for £14.99 – not much more of a cost than buying a single BMD certificate. Could be worth thinking about? WFW also transcribed the Nottinghamshire Hearth Tax 1664-1674 returns which can be bought similarly. For those unfamiliar with these transcriptions you can be assured that they are 100% reliable (or as near as dammit is to swearing) because they have been transcribed and described by palaeographers/historians. All Local Studies Centres within the County – and probably neighbouring Counties - will have copies of these particular Transactions: if they haven’t then you could suggest that they think about buying in copies. Some FHS will have them too. They are very useful to genealogists and family historians and w/should not be considered by them as idle purchases. There are other Tax records which survive in some areas, (e.g. for windows, hair powder, carriages, dogs, sheep, distressed Protestants in France/Ireland, poll books, etc. ad nauseam) so it is well worth checking with individual Record Offices and University Archives to see what is around. See here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/familyhistory/next_steps/adv_07_17_and_18_01.sh tml#ten and for a comprehensive list with dates see here: https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/England_Taxation Almost all of this information will not be found on websites. Much has not yet been transcribed and put on paper even. But a lot has and can be found by asking the questions in the right places – don’t flounder around but go direct - then share what is found on Forums such as this one. Thanks again, Linda and Margaret, Ruth Notts Surname List https://www.facebook.com/groups/nottssurnames/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message