Farm horse tax records for 1797

I’ve added a transcript of the farm horse tax list for Coldingham parish in 1797. It includes the names of 88 owners and their addresses (many farms, and smaller locations), and the number of horses each used for husbandry or trade that were thus liable for tax. It’s interesting to see the long list of farms recorded, together with numbers of working horses giving an approximate guide to the scale of agriculture going on. But it’s also interesting to see how many other people had horses for small-scale husbandry or trade.

Author: vivdunstan

Academic historian, genealogist, former computer scientist, and Doctor Who fan.

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