I am slowly transcribing the original handwritten assessment working notebooks which are held by my family. Additions and corrections were made to some of the records up to circa 1840 in the same notebooks.
©Marlow Ancestors. You are welcome to use this transcription for family and local history purposes if you credit this blog.
Format for transcription:
Name
Property occupied
Annual value of property
Square brackets hold any comments or further research by me
High Street East Side continued
David Nichols [David later crossed through in pencil and the name James substituted faintly]
Property details too faded to read.
*****
Ralph Clark [a tailor in 1835]
Property details too faded to read.
*****
? Haynes [first name altered and illegible as a result, looks like James after alteration, possibly formed from original entry "Francis" but I am far from certain. A James Haynes / Haines was a carpenter - see here for a biography
House and garden
£11
Workshop, garden and yard at wharf
£5 (occupied part of the old "tithe barn" by the bridge.)
*****
Elizabeth Palmer
House, garden, lawn, stables, coach houses, offices and yard
£50 (Most likely at Palmer House/Palmers)
*****
Josiah Clark [a grocer. Robbed of bacon and butter the previous year. More about his illustrious family here and a photo of his grave here]
House and garden
£15
*****
Thomas White
House and garden
£8
*****
Charles Clark
House and garden
£9
*****
John Cozens [a John Cozens senior died 1836 aged 81. Had moved to the town from Oxfordshire]
House, yard, chaisehouse, stable, garden and house and garden adjoining
£25 (A beautiful stucco and bow fronted house now demolished)
*****
Late Charles Wethered
House
£18
*****
Thomas Hardy
House, garden and yard
£14
*****
George Creswell [barge owner, inn keeper, constable and farmer. Long post about him here]
House and garden
£10
*****
Henry Badger (the Parish Clerk)
House and garden
£10
*****
End of High Street East Side
Transcribed and researched by Charlotte Day.
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