I am gradually transcribing the original 1833 handwritten parochial assessment working notebooks of the assessors which my family own along with related correspondence. The purpose of the assessment was to calculate local taxes for 1834. The books were updated with additions and corrections up to circa 1839. Any such updates are highlighted in my transcription.
Format of my transcription:
Name
Property occupied
Annual value of each property
Any comments or research by me in square brackets
By Charlotte Day.
©Marlow Ancestors. Use this information if you wish but please credit this blog.
Duck Lane [Also called St Peter's Street which is it's modern name, sometimes in the past called Old Bridge Street too. The name St Peter's does NOT derive from the church as this was not built until the 1840s. The name St Peter's Street was used alongside Duck Lane from the early 1830s at least]
Thomas Clinkenbury
House and garden
£5
*****
Timothy Chance [two men of this name headed households in this street. The other in a smaller cottage was a bargeman.]
House and garden
£5
*****
Richard Oxlade
The Blue Banner house [Pub, premises there till at least 1862 before becoming a house. This was very close to the River Thames and the water's edge. There was another pub of this name in Marlow in Henley Road later in the 1800s] and yard.
£8
*****
Christopher Copas
House and Garden
£5
*****
Aaron Oxlade [shopkeeper aged about 67. In St Peter's Street by 1830 when Pigotts Directory lists him. He had married Mary Truss at High Wycombe in 1800. She took over the shop after his death. She was specifically a grocer, Aaron just "shopkeeper". The shop was later licensed to sell beer as well. The Richard of the Blue Banner above was their son]
House and garden
£6
*****
Samuel Barnes [He owned this and other property in the street which was all sold 1850 after his death. His friend Richard Gibbons below was one of his will executors].
House, yard, garden, stable and lofts
£20
Malthouse
£15
*****
Thomas Gibbons [he was a coal merchant. Brother of Richard below]
House, yard, garden, stable and chaise house
£20
Orchard
£5
Wharf at Bankside
£15
*****
Richard Bye [Had recently moved from Abbey Farm Little Marlow. He moved again by 1841. He married the year of the assessment Mary Hewett, by her first marriage Mary Hawkins, some years his junior but she left him two years later. More on this couple in a post here. Mary's first husband had also run the Two Brewers in his time].
Two Brewers house [pub], yard, stables and garden
£12
*****
Samuel Carter
House yard and garden
£9
******
John Shanks [journeyman blacksmith. In 1833 a court case to get back his alleged ancestral property Finnemoor, a farm near Marlow from Joseph Townsend failed. 1841 blacksmith Church Passage. 1851 blacksmith St Peter's street, 1861 St Peter's Street Blue Banner]
Cottage and garden
£3 10 shillings
*****
George Easley
Cottage and garden
£2 10 shillings
*****
John ?Fusten
House ["and garden" crossed out and "woodhouse" added later]
£6
*****
Thomas Gardener [a market gardener]
Cottage [the words "and garden" later crossed out]
£5
Garden [not attached to his cottage, further down the assessment]
£4
*****
George Newbery [Tailor. Still in street 1841 when aged about 75]
Cottage
£4
*****
William Coleshill [died prematurely in 1837. Widow Martha continued to live in St Peter's Street]
Cottage and garden
£4 10 shillings
*****
Richard Heath [labourer, in street since at least 1823]
Cottage and garden
£4 10 shillings
*****
Richard Gibbons [had a small brewery and also made rope. Sent to Newgate Prison in 1842 after giving false evidence to an inquiry into one of Marlow's many dodgy parliamentary elections. Brother of Thomas above. The property occupied here was inherited from their dad. Richard later rented Samuel Barnes' malthouse listed above as well. Richard was a friend of Samuel's and one of the executors of his will].
House, garden, mill house, counting house, yard, stables, lofts, store rooms, large yard, store house, brewhouse with malt lofts etc
£35
*****
The following people occupied cottages with an annual value of £3 each:
James Downing [labourer. Still in street in same cottage 1841]
John White [bargeman, see below for another John White]
Timothy Chance [2nd person of that name in Street. This one was a bargeman, wife Ann who continued to live in the Street in the 1840s]
Widow Neighbour
Widow Moore [Jane Moore widow of John Moore bargeman who died 1814]
Robert Corby [painter?]
William Lewington [on 1841 census he was said to live in "Mill Yard"]
George Hawes [labourer]
Joseph Gimmet
James Harding
Henry Clark
*****
Occupying cottages each with an annual value of £2 10 shillings:
George Collins
John Hawes
*****
Each occupying a cottage and garden with an annual value of £4:
Widow Butler x2 [could be an accidental repetition of an entry or two Widows Butler occupying identically valued property]
*****
Each occupying a cottage with an annual value of £4:
Henry Clark
Robert Oxlade [probably the shoemaker of this name]
*****
Each occupying a house and garden with £5 annual value:
William Croxen [usually spelt Croxon]
John White [seems to have started as a bargeman but became a beerseller here by 1838 until at least 1852. Wife Eliza. Cottage no longer exists. Name of his beer house is currently unknown. Note that there was a different John White, also a bargeman in St Peter's Street at the same time, see above].
Elizabeth White [the first name originally left blank, name Elizabeth added later in pencil]
*****
Occupying cottage and garden with an annual value of £4 10 shillings:
Samuel Hobbs [Later at the two Brewers]
*****
Cottage with annual value of £1 10 shillings [an exceptionally small value. This must have been a one room hovel]:
Ann Clark [lacemaker]
*****
Robert Gudgeon [also occurs as Gudgin. He worked in the paper mills. His wife Charlotte's grave is here. In 1843 he lived in St Peter's Street in a rented "newly built" stone house erected a few months earlier so he had moved within St Peter's Street]
House and garden
£5
*****
Late Bradshaw [no first name]
House, lawn, stables, yard, coach house, large garden and orchard
£25 [In 1837 a Mr Bradshaw a poor man of Duck Lane, that being an alternative name for St Peters Street, suffered a terrible fire at his cottage that left it completely destroyed. He was much burned when rescuing his children from the blaze. The family lost all their possessions. Two neighbouring cottages were badly damaged. This must be a different Bradshaw as the man called Bradshaw in the assessment is far from poor if in a £25 house, and he has either died or moved from St Peters Street in 1833, 4 years before the fire, as his recorded occupation is as "late Bradshaw", though the two Bradshaw men may be related]
*****
John Morgan [draper, premises High Street. More here]
House, yard, offices
£10
*****
Ann Bond [widow. For more on her, her husband and an odd burglary Ann suffered in this house see here]
House, yard, garden
£25
Coach house belonging to Badger
10 shillings
*****
Martha Badger [likely widow of William]
Cottage and large garden
£5 10 shillings
*****
John Badger
House and garden
£4
*****
James Brown
Cottage and garden
£6
*****
Brown [no first name]
House and garden
£7 10 shillings
*****
Robert Jonathan Oxlade [in 1813 a man of this name was a shoemaker. Son of Robert Jonathan Oxlade senior who sold up his business -of an unknown nature but he owned a malthouse- and left Marlow in 1787. Obviously Robert junior had decided to return to the town]
House and two gardens
£9
*****
William Davis [could be the man of this name who was a Marlow beer seller in 1831, though presumably now of different trade as his premises are not noted as a beer shop or inn]
Cottage and garden
£4
*****
George Davis
Cottage and garden
£5
*****
John Collins
Cottage and garden
£5
*****
Thomas Frith
Cottage and garden
£4 10 shillings
*****
Transcribed and researched by Charlotte Day.
©Marlow Ancestors.
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