I just checked the dates more closely. The first list she appears is 1800 (actually I have to go back and look at the 1799 which was too dark to read on a normal microfilm reader -- have to use the newer one which was being used by another library patron) and she didn't marry until December. That explains why she would be on that list with her first married name. The next year's list, she is not taxed for any property as she was in 1800, although her name still appears with her first married name. (assuming my scenario is correct.) As someone wrote to me privately, it's possible that they just copied her name over from the previous list, but one year it is "Nancy" and the other "Ann." And I am assuming they are the same person. There just were not very many people with the particular surname in this county. Patti On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Patricia Hobbs <[email protected]> wrote: > How common do you think it is to find a widow listed on a Kentucky tax > list a year or two after her remarriage still listed with her first married > name? > > I have seen it in Pennsylvania tax lists, but also the first entry made it > clear that she was the widow. It's pretty clear this woman must be the > widow (property size and description the same), but I think she remarried > and only her name continuing on the tax list for a couple of years makes me > hesitate. I will be looking to see if the second husband is being taxed for > the land. He lived in the adjoining county (that's where he is taxed), so > it's on a different roll of microfilm. > > Patti >

Patti, I had the same problem with documents listing Ann and Nancy. I thought it was the same person, but could not prove it was on wasn't until I found Christine Rose's book on "Nicknames." Nancy is a nickname for Ann, although Nancy is also a given name. When I learned this from the book everything fell into place. I did have the same person using both her given name Ann and sometimes her nickname Nancy. Chuck Mason -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Patricia Hobbs via Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 10:40 AM To: TRANSITIONAL-GENEALOGISTS-FORUM-L Subject: Re: [TGF] Tax lists I just checked the dates more closely. The first list she appears is 1800 (actually I have to go back and look at the 1799 which was too dark to read on a normal microfilm reader -- have to use the newer one which was being used by another library patron) and she didn't marry until December. That explains why she would be on that list with her first married name. The next year's list, she is not taxed for any property as she was in 1800, although her name still appears with her first married name. (assuming my scenario is correct.) As someone wrote to me privately, it's possible that they just copied her name over from the previous list, but one year it is "Nancy" and the other "Ann." And I am assuming they are the same person. There just were not very many people with the particular surname in this county. Patti On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Patricia Hobbs <[email protected]> wrote: > How common do you think it is to find a widow listed on a Kentucky tax > list a year or two after her remarriage still listed with her first > married name? > > I have seen it in Pennsylvania tax lists, but also the first entry > made it clear that she was the widow. It's pretty clear this woman > must be the widow (property size and description the same), but I > think she remarried and only her name continuing on the tax list for a > couple of years makes me hesitate. I will be looking to see if the > second husband is being taxed for the land. He lived in the adjoining > county (that's where he is taxed), so it's on a different roll of microfilm. > > Patti > ------------------------------- 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

What you are probably dealing with is a list where the commissioner did not change the "name," i.e., ownership. He is still seeing it as the widow's property and it is probably easier for him to identify it that way. I would study other lists by the same commissioner---each commissioner did his own thing to a degree. The governing body was only interested in collecting money, not in who was listed as the owner of the property, which sometimes was not the same person as the one who paid the tax. Barbara Vines Little, CG, FNGS, FVGS PO Box 1273 Orange, VA 22960 540-832-3473 [email protected] CG, Certified Genealogist, is a service mark of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license by board-certified genealogists after periodic evaluation; the board name is registered in the US Patent & Trademark Office. On 2/24/2015 10:40 AM, Patricia Hobbs via wrote: > I just checked the dates more closely. The first list she appears is 1800 > (actually I have to go back and look at the 1799 which was too dark to read > on a normal microfilm reader -- have to use the newer one which was being > used by another library patron) and she didn't marry until December. That > explains why she would be on that list with her first married name. The > next year's list, she is not taxed for any property as she was in 1800, > although her name still appears with her first married name. (assuming my > scenario is correct.) As someone wrote to me privately, it's possible that > they just copied her name over from the previous list, but one year it is > "Nancy" and the other "Ann." And I am assuming they are the same person. > There just were not very many people with the particular surname in this > county. > > Patti > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Patricia Hobbs <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> How common do you think it is to find a widow listed on a Kentucky tax >> list a year or two after her remarriage still listed with her first married >> name? >> >> I have seen it in Pennsylvania tax lists, but also the first entry made it >> clear that she was the widow. It's pretty clear this woman must be the >> widow (property size and description the same), but I think she remarried >> and only her name continuing on the tax list for a couple of years makes me >> hesitate. I will be looking to see if the second husband is being taxed for >> the land. He lived in the adjoining county (that's where he is taxed), so >> it's on a different roll of microfilm. >> >> Patti >> > ------------------------------- > 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 > >