Looking for help from historians I have information about my family in London for the hearth tax 1666 The great fire of London happened 1666 also, so was this before or after, in other words, could the property they were paying hearth tax for, not exist anymore after 1666, or were they still living there ? Can anyone clarify the time line for this please any help gratefully received Aileen

It depends on the date of your information. The Hearth Tax was usually collected in 2 installments on 25 Mar [Lady day] and 29 Sep [Michaelmas] The Fire was 2 - 5 September HTH Jean On 26 July 2011 11:47, A durn <rosableu08@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > > Looking for help from historians > > I have information about my family in London for the hearth tax 1666 > > The great fire of London happened 1666 also, > so was this before or after, > in other words, could the property they were paying hearth tax for, > not exist anymore after 1666, or were they still living there ? > > Can anyone clarify the time line for this please > any help gratefully received > > Aileen > >

On 2011/07/26 12:47, A durn wrote: > The great fire of London happened 1666 also, > so was this before or after, > in other words, could the property they were paying hearth tax for, > not exist anymore after 1666, or were they still living there ? Without actually knowing the answer, I would say that the tax applied both before and after the Great Fire. Sir Christopher Wren had grandiose plans for rebuilding the City after the file, but the plans were thwarted by the land-owners refusing to allow their existing, mediaeval boundaries to be be changed. In the end, they simply rebuilt on top of the existing foundations. From this, I think you can safely assume that what you have applied both before and after the Fire. Of course, this is only my personal supposition :-) -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg

It depends also on where they lived. Not everything in London was destroyed. Also at that time the populated area around London had spread and many referred to the entire populated area as London even then. On 07/26/2011 06:47 AM, A durn wrote: > > Looking for help from historians > > I have information about my family in London for the hearth tax 1666 > > The great fire of London happened 1666 also, > so was this before or after, > in other words, could the property they were paying hearth tax for, > not exist anymore after 1666, or were they still living there ? > > Can anyone clarify the time line for this please > any help gratefully received > > Aileen > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > This mailing list works in parallel with the London surname interest list on the web at http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/london.html . Check for matching interests and add your own ! > > Any problems, please contact the List Admin: LONDON-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LONDON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >