I know that I should know this one but my one little grey cell is sulking today. What were "Hair Powder Certificates"? Anne in misty foggy murky Sheffield, Yorkshire. > Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:18:05 +0100 > From: ovington1@sky.com > To: warwick@rootsweb.com > Subject: [WAR] Update on Ancestry to Warwickshire, England, Occupational and Quarter Session Records, 1662-1866 > > There has been an update to the following record category on Ancestry, I > am unsure exactly what was added, I understand the Hair Powder > Certificates was one of them > > Warwickshire, England, Occupational and Quarter Session Records, 1662-1866 > > Record Type > > Boat Owners > Flax Bounty > Freeholders > Freemasons > Gamekeepers´ Deputations > Gamekeepers´ Lists > Gamekeepers´ Register > Hair Powder Certificates > Hearth Tax Returns > Jurors Lists 1696 > Jurors Lists 1704 > Jurors Lists 1772-1778 > Jurors Lists 1779-1787 > Jurors Lists 1788-1794 > Jurors Lists 1795-1802 > Jurors Lists 1803-1809 > Jurors Lists 1810-1815 > Jurors Lists 1816-1824 > Jurors Lists 1825 > Jurors Lists 1831 > Jurors Lists 1836 > Jurors Lists 1842 > Jurors Lists 1847 > Jurors Lists 1849 > Printing Press Owners > > -- > Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > ------------------------------- > List archives are at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/WARWICK > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WARWICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Anne It was yet another idea by the then Government to get money in by yet another tax See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_on_Hair_Powder_Act_1795 Rather like the window tax, the hearth tax, registration tax etc etc Things don't change do they <g> Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 25/10/2012 10:53, A P L wrote: > > I know that I should know this one but my one little grey cell is > sulking today. What were "Hair Powder Certificates"? Anne in misty > foggy murky Sheffield, Yorkshire.