Hi, does anyone please know anything about land tax records ? My ancestor was a voter 1832 and had a house and land. Can you please tell me how i can find out what he owned ? Thank you. Keith in Malta.

Hello Keith As a first step I would suggest you try to find your ancestor in the Tithe Apportionment from around the 1840's which will hopefully tell you whether the land was actually owned or rented. The tithe also includes a map with each plot numbered so you can be sure which pieces of land were included. The Land Tax (generally) pre-dates the Tithe so it can be useful going from one to the other but the main problem is that virtually all the Shropshire Land Tax documents were destroyed about the time of WWII although there is a very limited set in The National Archives at Kew. If you happen to be looking for somewhere else, like Cheshire, then they have a good set of Land Tax documents. Mike ______________________________________________________ keith hammond wrote: > Hi, > does anyone please know anything about land tax records ? My ancestor was a voter 1832 and had a house and land. Can you please tell me how i can find out what he owned ? Thank you. > > Keith in Malta. > > > ==== ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS Mailing List ==== > If you have sources of guaranteed information for family history/genealogy research, please post brief details to the list and volunteer to do look-ups - every little helps. > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > > >