Hi List, Not surprising that there were only 10 people able to afford male servants mentioned below in Radnorshire [or who paid the tax!] as Radnorshire was the poorest County in Wales as the following poem suggests! Its a shame it does not give the names of the servants as well. Radnorshire, poor Radnorshire, Never a park and never a deer, And never a man of five hundred a year Except Sir William Fowler of Abbey Cwm-hir. All the best, David Thomas -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gareth Sent: 29 April 2012 17:18 To: Dyfed Subject: [Dyfed] Genuki - Welsh Journals Online List of Persons who paid duty on male servants in 1780 Below is an extract from the Radnorshire Society Transactions, vol. 9 1939 on Welsh Journals Online http://welshjournals.llgc.org.uk/browse/listarticles/llgc-id:1191402/llgc-id :1192035 "An Act of Parliament pass in 1777 said that 21 shillings should be paid yearly for every male servant employed, such as footmen, coachmen, pastry-cooks, gamekeepers and so on. An MS volume in the PRO dated 1780 gives a long list for England and Wales estimated to consist of 24,750 persons employing 59,944 servants. The Radnorshire names are only 10 in number...................." I can't say I've ever come across this particular Act before and thought it might be of general interest Gareth Genuki Wales http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/ Gareth's Help Page http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ukwales2/hicks.html Cwmgors a'r Waun http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cwmgors/Waun.html ================================ Dyfed list http://home.clara.net/daibevan/DyfedML.html ------------------------------- 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