Updated by Charlotte October 2023
The original handwritten working notebooks used to compile the parochial assessment have been in my family for a time but are now very fragile so I thought I'd better transcribe them for posterity. The books were used for corrections to this information up to circa 1839 and include slotted in correspondence on the issue.
This is part 2 of many parts dealing with the houses and buildings.
Post by Charlotte Day.
©Marlow Ancestors. You are very welcome to quote from / use this transcription for family and local history purposes with credit to this blog.
Town houses and buildings
High Street, West side continued
Format is =
Name
Description of property
Annual value
Any notes or comments from me in square brackets
John Meadows [a draper. Retired 1839]
Dwelling house and garden
£8
Stable and loft
10 shillings
Barn
£1
Shops and dwelling house
£14
*****
Ralfs [only bit of name given] [property owned by the family from before 1826]
Dwelling house, yard and large garden
£22
*****
Mayor [Again this is the whole name given. Almost certainly a butcher].
House and garden
£6
*****
Susannah Clark [Grocer and tea dealer who also ran a coach. Present here 1830. Widow.]
House and garden
£8
*****
John Broome [he seems out of his proper place in the assessment. Died aged 89 in 1845. John was of Irish birth and had spent 26 years in the East Indies before returning to England in 1807. This return date precludes him from being the John Broome of Westthorpe Little Marlow in 1793]
House and garden
£11
*****
Robert Colbourne [Surgeon. I have a copy of the will of a Robert Colbourne that is likely this man. A transcription of it is here].
House, yard, stable, pleasure ground and garden
£26
*****
James Field [he ran a school, was a tailor and became Post Master. The wills of himself and his wife are available on the blog here].
Dwelling House, school room, offices and garden
£22
*****
William Harding [shoemaker and beerseller]
The Turks Head beershop [also known as the Saracen's Head], house, yard and garden
£10
*****
James Maclean [tin plate worker and ironmonger].
House, shop, and garden
£13
*****
Samuel Carter [shoemaker]
House, yard and garden
£15
*****
Richard Hawkins
House and other buildings
£12
****
Joseph Grey [a tailor]
House
£6
*****
John Moss
House, Kitchen with room over Smith's shop, stable, large workshop, sheds, yards, foundry, gardens and part of house adjoining [John and his wife are the subject of a biographical post on the blog here. His main business premises described above as workshops, foundry etc were down by the Mills later and I thought at this time too but he is listed High Street which was his home address so not sure. He also a little later rented some arable land, stables etc in Spittal Street]
£21
Barn and part of a yard by the Meeting House [Oxford Road]
£2 10 shillings
Gardens by Oxford Lane [modern Oxford Road]
£3
*****
James Coster
House and garden
£12
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To be continued
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