Tithe Apportionment - Collection
This page is dedicated to Mr Gerry Dutton of Basingstoke whose work on the The North Hampshire Tithe Map Project and the resultant website gave me the inspiration to consider my work on Tithe Apportionment and Maps as a collective as well as the previous thought of only including the work within the relevant One Place Studies or articles. Thank you for the inspiration.
In order of my creation of the Articles
Tithe Apportionment - Sopley
Tithe Apportionment - Millbrook
Tithe Apportionment - Whiteparish
Tithe Apportionment - Nursling
Tithe Apportionment - Eling
The object of this article is to pull together the other articles that deal with Tithe Apportionment and Maps. Hence there is little original text here, just pulling previous articles together.
Before that, the ancillary Tithe Apportionment articles.
How I make use of Tithe Apportionment and Maps
How I make use of Tithe Apportionment and Maps
This is both sharing with you the reader and helping me with some notes regarding the process for Tithe Apportionment articles, dataset, and ESRI Story Maps.
This hopes to provide a useful and consistent layout and content, which I suspect would be most beneficial in the collection of Tithe Apportionment articles.
Guide to Tithe Apportionment and Maps transcription and use
Guide to Tithe Apportionment and Maps transcription and use
The first part of this is to record the process of how I create information out of the historic data, followed by what I subsequently do with that information.
The end goal is to create sharable information for Family Historians and for myself. My choice of Parishes is reflective of my own Family Tree and the location of key ancestors in the period that the Surveys and Agreements were undertaken, about the 1840's
Introduction
Introduction
This element is fundamentally a guide for the transcription of the Tithe Allocation document and to the use of the associated spreadsheet.
The sections equate to the different tabs in the spreadsheet and the subsequent results in the associated webpage.
The sections also follow the process of creating the dataset.
Spreadsheet tables have a mix of direct entry, calculated fields, looked up data, and checking fields. Sometimes there is a colour bar above the titles to aid identifying the type of cells or fields in the column.
Generally the;-
- Direct entry are shown in a shade of blue, with light blue being the first pass of data entry.
- Calculating fields are headed with a yellow bar.
- Looked up data, i.e. information from other tables linked to this data, are headed with a brown bar.
- Checking fields, primarily to check data consistency, are headed with a red bar.
Creating the Dataset
Creating the Dataset
The original schedule is hand written on paper. Scans of those paper pages have been made. Fortunately, most of the handwriting is a lot easier to read that mine.
The images from those scans are available form the Hampshire Record Office and The Genealogist. The former also holds the original documents which can also be viewed by arrangement.
Analog images are very interesting but the data needs to be digitised to allow it to be readily accessed and interrogated.
Transcription from the scans is not very difficult, the handwriting is generally very legible, but is time consuming.
Key to creating the dataset is to have somewhere to put it, in an organised structured nature, which can subsequently be easily interrogated and analysed, producing reliable, meaningful, consistent, and repeatably results.
Primary Data
Creating the Dataset - Primary Data
Spreadsheet tab - Prime Data.
A form cell entry, not a table.
Most of the Primary Date will be found within or near the Agreement at the front of the Tithe Apportionment. There are also some checks back to the other parts of the spreadsheet but obviously these will not be correct until all of the other data is input and all the links refreshed.
There is a possibility that the total area stated in the Agreement is not the same as the sum of the parts elsewhere in the Agreement. The spreadsheet checks if the two match, however, if it shows a variance all that can be done is to check the input and transcription, and if they are correct, accept the historic variance.
Find the data and fill in the form accordingly.
Summary
Creating the Dataset - Summary
Spreadsheet tab - Names of L and O.
A table where each row is a record, and each cell in that row is a field, or element of that record.
Find the Summary on the Tithe Apportionment, sometimes after the Schedule. It has a list of all the names and the total quantity of land and total rentcharge for each combination of Land owner and Occupier, and occasionally with an addition of Lessor, with Lessee as Land owner.
The first pass is only to capture the names of those people found in the Summary, ignoring the quantity and rentcharge columns.
Go to the tab 'Names of L and O' which is for Names of Landowner and Occupier. From the Summary enter, in the first three columns, the persons' name, normalised if necessary to given names followed by Surname. Suffix such as Esquire or & another, or & others are inserted in the second column, named appropriately. Part of the tab's calculation area finds the surname form the name and another part strips out any remaining underscores, "_". The third column is to indicate the category, such as Land owner or Occupier, or both, using the dropdown.
Entries such as Herself and Himself are transcribed as the persons name to facilitate separate record analysis.
Also Biddlecomb Widow and the like are transcribed Widow Biddlecome for consistent interpretation. Sad to think that there was a time that a woman was so much the wife of a man, that even on official documentation, they did not have a name, just that they were the Widow of that man.
On a paper copy it is implied that a list continues with the landowner, with multiple occupiers until the next landowner is written in. We are creating a dataset as well as a transcription so each record, or row, needs all of the information, not just a blank, ditto, or ". The name therefore needs to be copied down to all appropriate rows. The same applies to the Lessor if there is one.
Other columns in the tab are not relevant at this time and include data for cross-referencing between the Tithe listed people and my TNG database and the Census data.
Spreadsheet tab - Summary.
A table where each row is a record, and each cell in that row is a field, or element of that record.
The next step is to repeat the process on the tab 'Summary' but including the total quantity of land and total rentcharge this time. Yes, this is duplication of effort, but it is done to improve accuracy by double typing, The totals are also used to check the entries of the Schedule.
In the numerical fields, blanks can be left or leading zeros, up to the first number. However intermediate blanks must be replaced with a zero. I.e. ¦ " ¦ " ¦ 2 can be ¦ ¦ ¦ 2 ¦ but ¦ 4 ¦ " ¦ 8 ¦ has to be ¦ 4 ¦ 0 ¦ 8 ¦ .
At the end of the first page there is probably a total. In a column to the right headed page, input the page or image number and drag it down to cover all the entries for that page. Going back to the values input columns, and then curser down to the bottom. Use the page number to select the relevant information, or use the filter to select the page if that does not work. If all the selections are working, the total written in the Summary and that calculated on the spreadsheet should be correct. If they are not, check and recheck the transcription.
It is easier to do checks progressively, one page at a time, instead of waiting to do the check at the end and then trying to find what page the error is on followed by doing the same check as above for the page.
If it does tally correctly, proceed to the next page and continue. The checks would not highlight compensatory errors, but further checks happen latter.
At the end of the Summary there are totals for area and monies. The spreadsheet should correlate with the historic document.
Return to the Primary Data tab and add the Area Total, Acres, R, P after the names of the Tithe Commissioners.
Repeat with the Monetary Values for both Rent Charges.
The checks inspect the input against the same information on the historical documents.
There are some tabs on the spreadsheet that use the Summary as source. PT is for Pivot Table in these instances. The tabs are 'PT Summary Area Rent', 'PT Summary V Rent', 'PT Summary IM Rent', and 'PT Summary Area'.
Schedule
Creating the Dataset - Schedule
Spreadsheet tab - Plot registry.
A table where each row is a record, and each cell in that row is a field, or element of that record.
The Schedule has all the detailed data at the all important plot level.
Landowners and Occupiers and Numbers referring to the Plan
The plot number is the first entry, that is simple enough.
The next field only applies to some Schedules, where there is a Leasor at the top of the page. Which in turn renders what would normally be Landowner to become Leasee Landowner.
(Leasee Landowner) Landowner and Occupier are the next fields, which can either be by direct typing or by using the dropdowns which are fuelled by the data filled in 'Names of L and O' tab.
Name and Description of Lands and Premises and State of Cultivation
Lands and premises field is a copy of the schedule column Name and Description of Lands and Premises. This is a typing field. Sometimes there is very useful information in this field with names that can still be found on current or older maps. Other times it is a little sparse.
The State of Cultivation on the schedule is interested in land use to establish the Tithe. For those elements it is just typing into the column of the same name. However, I am also interested in other land use. Using the Description of Lands and Premises I make and assessment of the alternative usages, generally into one or more of the following usages.
| Name and Description of Land and Premises | State of Cultivation |
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| House and Garden | {Residence} |
| Cottage and Garden | {Residence} |
| Yard and Buildings | {Premises} |
| Farm Yard and Buildings | {Premises} |
| Blacksmiths Shop | {Retail} |
| Willow Bed and Water | {Water} |
| Roadway | {Road} |
| Waste | {Waste} |
| Chapel | {Church} |
| Common | {Common} |
| Pleasure Gardens | {Pleasure Gardens} |
| Orchard | {Orchard} |
| Plantation | {Plantation} |
| House, Blacksmith's Shop, and Garden | {{Residence}{Retail}} |
| ??? Inn and Garden | {{Residence}{Retail}} |
| House, Blacksmith's Shop, Buildings, Garden, and Yard | {{Residence}{Retail}{Premises}} |
| House and Pleasure Garden | {{Residence}{Pleasure Gardens}} |
| Mansion House, and Pleasure Gardens | {{Residence}{Pleasure Gardens}} |
| Mansion House, Buildings, and Pleasure Gardens | {{Residence}{Pleasure Gardens}{Premises}} |
The new categories of use are enclosed in braces { } to distinguish the entry apart form the transcription. Multiple uses are allocated any combination of the new categories, enclosed in a further set of braces {{ }{ }}, although avoid {{ a }{ b }} and {{ b }{ a }} as this will just collate as two entries when it is only one.
I should point out at this point that in my opinion the description 'Garden' is not how we would construe the term today. Today we might think of a front or back garden with perhaps flowers and a lawn, laid out to look good. With some of the front gardens converted as somewhere to park cars. I suspect that in 1800's 'Garden' was more akin to market garden or vegetable patch.
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Following the end of the war in the 1940's, 50's and 60's the UK went on something of a building spree, with thousands of council houses being built. Part replacing bombed out buildings and part slum clearance. I was brought up in my early years in one such house. I recall reading somewhere that a lot of council houses built then had relatively large gardens to facilitate home production, farming on a small scale. These micro farms may have included animals, a pig, or some chickens, but mainly fruit and vegetables. A continuation of the wartime make do and carry on, self reliance. Times have changed, and as a society we moved away from grow your own, so the gardens have become more about flowers and lawns. We could be at the beginning of a move towards a return to grow your own. See Also Historic England on Post War council housing estates
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Quantities in Statute Measure
In the numerical fields, blanks can be left or leading zeros, up to the first number. However intermediate blanks must be replaced with a zero. I.e. ¦ " ¦ " ¦ 2 can be ¦ ¦ ¦ 2 ¦ but ¦ 4 ¦ " ¦ 8 ¦ has to be ¦ 4 ¦ 0 ¦ 8 ¦ .
The area of the plot numbers are ¦ A. ¦ R. ¦ P. ¦ meaning Acre, Rood (Rod), and Perch. With 40 perch to a rood and 4 rood to the acre.
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One Acre is the area that could be ploughed by a team of eight oxen in one day. Measuring land for ownership (and taxation) is a very ancient concept, as is the word ‘acre’, which occurs in many old languages and translates as ‘open field’. The area thus described was originally a strip of land (a long furrow, which gave rise to the word furlong, an old measurement of length) that a ploughman and his yoke of two oxen could turn over in an average day’s work – a strip being easier to plough than a square, as there were fewer turning points required. Acres. Later an acre was more accurately measured as an area which is equivalent to 10 chains by one chain. A chain is now standardised as 66 feet (20.18 m), so the actual area covered by an acre is 660 feet by 66 feet, which (to save you the maths) converts to near enough 4,048 square metres. To visualise this, a professional football (soccer) field covers an area of two acres, so one team’s half is an acre. Thus a hectare, which is approximately 2 1⁄2 acres, takes up both halves of the playing area, plus the land around it between players and spectators. Roods & perches. These are subdivisions of an acre. There are four roods in an acre, and in turn a rood contains 40 perches. As a rood is a quarter of an acre, it contains 1.012 square metres – about the size of two tennis courts. Each of the 40 perches in a rood thus consists of just over 25 square metres – the size of one of the net-side playing areas of the tennis court. One chain is also the distance between wickets on a cricket pitch. The chain (abbreviated ch) is a unit of length equal to 66 feet (22 yards), used in both the US customary and Imperial unit systems. It is subdivided into 100 links. There are 10 chains in a furlong, and 80 chains in one statute mile. In metric terms, it is 20.1168 m long.
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Each plot has an area measurement and therefore an entry under Quantities in Statute Measure. However, not every plot has an entry under rent-charge.
Amount of Rent-Charge apportioned upon the several Lands, and Payable to the Vicar / Rector / Impropriator
There are now two groups of columns, one group regarding the rent-charge payable to the vicar, and the other to the Impropriator.
Each group separated into ¦ £. ¦ s. ¦ d. ¦. £ s d being Pounds, shillings, and pence. With 12 pence to the shilling and 20 shillings to the pound. If you are of a certain age you will be able to add up the values easily.
Sometimes the Tithe Apportionment pro-forma only has one group of rent-charge, as is the case with Nursling, with the charge payable to the Rector. I don't think it makes much difference but I have decided to record the entries for the Rector under the columns for Impropriator. I will hide the columns for the vicar for the time being to aid filling in the data.
Applies to both Quantities in Statute Measure and Rent-Charge
Where there is one Landowner and one occupier for a single plot there is a single entry for each such set.
Where a Landowner has a number of occupiers across numerous plots, there might be a subtitle for that landowner. In such a case add a sub-subtitle into the column headed Sub title info. The numbers entered adjacent to such annotations are treated differently in the totals calculations to avoid double counting. Adding the sub totals in this way should allow the entered data to look similar to the original document. Which should allow better visual checking of data entry.
At the end of the each page there may be a total. This would be annotated sub-total.
If there is a total at the end of the page set the filters to that page and filter out the sub-subtotals and the subtotal annotations in the column headed Sub title info,and the totals displayed should equal those shown on the original document. If not firstly check for the correct page designations, and filter settings. Then check the entries. Then check the entries again. If after all these checks there is still a variance, check the arithmetic on the original document.
Whatever the outcome of the checks, transcribe the document as it is, and make a note in the notes column of the variance and suspected cause. So if the Tithe Apportionment has the rent-charge sub-total of £ 3 5s 10p but it should have totaled £ 3 6s 10p write the original £ 3 5s 10p and note the 1s variance. Expect that variance to show up again in the totals.
Obviously, if the error is found to be an incorrect transcription/data entry then that is corrected. A 3 looks like and 8, but the totals confirm that it was a 3, go back and change it from a 8 to a 3.
The same applies to the sub-subtotals as you work your way down the page. You can either use the filtering method or hone your arithmetic skills other than decimal, with 40, 4, and 12, and 20, being the shift to the next column.
If you do use the filtering method, there is a yellow box under the data input area of the table which does the arithmetic for you. But don't forget to either filter out the sub-subtotals or do it before entering the data, otherwise you will get incorrect totals. A reminder, this procedure is to check your data entry, not the Tithe Apportionment arithmetic.
In some instances the occupier or landowner may be split across more than one page with the use of 'carry forward' and 'brought forward'. I have not created a mechanism for dealing with this as it is not required in a continuous record set. It is very much a paper based way of doing things. A very good way, I might add, for paper. So although the record set should look similar to the original, this is left out, both the 'carry forward' at the bottom of the page, and 'brought forward' at the top of the following page. However, I do consider it prudent to think of it as a sub-total and check if my input thus far equals the stated 'carry forward' figure by using the filters as above. As long as that is the case, I just move on and discard them. If not, I find the cause of the variance.
Additional information
Creating the Dataset - Additional information
Spreadsheet tab - Plot registry.
Still working on the Plot Registry and data from the The Schedule.
Name and Description of Lands and Premises and State of Cultivation
| Number of dwellings | Sub total info |
Where the information from the original document implies a residence, such as House and Garden or Cottage and Garden add a 1 to the column headed 'Number of dwellings'. If is states Two Cottages, add a 2, etc.
Ultimately, that will provide the total number of dwellings covered by the Tithe Apportionment survey, which can be compared to the appropriate Census.
Sub total info has been dealt with above.
| Include in Landowners report | Include in Occupiers report | Owner Occupier | Probable Residence |
Include in Landowners report / Include in Occupiers report
Are both part of data checking.
Owner Occupier
Owner Occupier is actually a calculated field not a direct entry. It reports true if the entered Landowners and Occupiers Names are the same.
Probable Residence
Probable Residence is a simple drop down 'True' statement where the description suggests that there is one or more dwellings on the plot. It could have been a calculated field based on the 'Number of dwellings' column but this gives a degree of data checking.
Place named
I have recently added a column headed 'Place named', which is intended as a 'TRUE' or blank. With reference to the Description on the Schedule the are several named fields which could be useful, but they don't qualify for a 'TRUE' in this column. A named inn, a church, or named mansion are all examples which would be 'TRUE'. The idea being that when the data is filtered to 'TRUE' the named places can be searched for on old maps. Once a particular named place is located on both the Tithe Map and an old map it is easier to start matching plots on the Tithe Map to fields and places on an old map, which can then be used to create the associated latitude and longitude.
Page and notes are further into the 'Engine' as shown below.
The page is just the page number of the Tithe Apportionment for this particular Parish. The Page number can also be used to create page totals and to check the data entry of the figures where the Tithe Apportionment has page totals. A change of page number generates a broken underline at the first six fields of data entry.
Notes are just that, either notes on the Tithe Apportionment document or your own notes. I do not normally add the coded / accounting annotations found at the edge of some rows on the Tithe Apportionment.
I use the notes to record variations in arithmetic (errors on the original Tithe Apportionment) - rare, but do occasionally show up.
Checks
As well as the double entry typing as part of the checks there are both overall and detailed checks.
The basic overall checks are included in the Primary Data tab. Rudimentary TRUE or FALSE statements which combine to either a sad or happy face.
Following completion of Names of L and O, Summary, and Plot registry, we need to check for consistency of names and the presentation of those names. In a dataset John Smith is different to Smith, John, so all the answers about that person will be incorrect. John Smith and John Smith and others is similarly a problem if they are meant to be the same but OK if they a meant to be different.
Go to PT LO Check or PT OW Check, yellow tabs. Refresh the Pivot tables.
There are two collection Pivot tables, one from the detail, Plot registry, and another from the Summary. The two adjacent columns, Compare and Correct, checks for a match of the area quantities for each person in the detail against the summary. However, if the names mis-match by as much as a trailing space, the calculation returns N/A. Filter all of the N/A and find the variances in the names. Then amend the name in the Names of L and O and Summary, to match the detail, where it is appropriate to do so. It is natural to create a summery from the detail, which is why I have given preference to the detail being correct. The variance could have been created by me or on the original documents. Either way, a correction is needed for subsequent calculations. I do not tend to make notes about these changes. If however, the problem is caused by two people having exactly the same name, then add something to differentiate them, such as a 2 at the end of one of the names.
Once all for the names inconsistencies have been resolved in both PT LO Check and PT OW Check it is time to look at the values. Variances are shown highlighted FALSE. Check and resolve the differences, often by checking the original scans, and the consistent use of suffixes such as '& Others' or '& another'. Sometimes there will be an annoying small variance that just does not want to be found. It can be something as simple as 1 3 "" instead of 1 3 0.
In the unlikely even that there is a demonstrable error in the original documents, there is a facility to record that in the Primary Data tab, in the compare section. Then you can still get an OK for the spreadsheet data whilst still keeping its integrity.
Spreadsheet Engine
Creating the Dataset - Spreadsheet Engine
Spreadsheet tab - Plot registry.
Still working on the Plot Registry and data from the The Schedule.
This section is all about the backroom stuff. The calculations that help verify the input data and aid analysis and data interrogation.
The stuff that goes on in the background without direct input.
Generally with yellow or brown column headers.
| Landowners Initial | Landowners Family Name | Landowners Given Names | Occupiers Family Name | Occupiers Given Names | Page | Quantities in Statute Measure | Rent charge payable to Vicar | Rent charge payable to Impropriator | Landowners names included in TNG | Landowners names included in TNG ref | Occupiers names included in TNG | Occupiers names included in TNG ref | Notes |
| Parish | Latitude | Longitude | Landowners Area | Landowners V Rent | Landowners IM Rent | From Summary Landowners Area | From Summary Landowners V Rent | From Summary Landowners IM Rent | Check | Is Plot ID a number |
In hindsight, Page and Notes would be at the end of the other direct entries, not mixed within the calculated and lookup fields. Parish is looked up from the Prime Data, and the Latitude and Longitude is looked up from another data entry table specifically for location.
Output
Creating the Dataset - Output
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Geolocation
Geolocation
Matching the Tithe Map to current Mapping
As stated above, It is unnecessary to discuss in detail the problems of interpreting a tithe map; but it is well to bear in mind that reliance cannot be placed upon the area of individual tithe areas stated in an apportionment or computed from the tithe map, unless the map is scaled.
I therefore resort to comparing the Tithe Maps to the Ordnance Survey 25" maps held by The National Library of Scotland and prefer the Georeferenced Mapping.
It is not that easy to see the correlation with the OS Map with it's Northerly orientation compared to a Tithe Map which is normally arranged to best fit the paper.
Sometimes I can rotate a digital copy of the Tithe Map 90o or more, to approximate the Compass Rose northerly direction. It is then more discernible as to whether it is the same location as indicated on the 25" OS Maps as being the same as the Tithe Map.
Unfortunately Tithe Maps are frequently without place name annotations. So it is generally down to shapes to enable identification of the places by comparison to both old and current maps.
The shapes of the rivers, roads, and fields as well as the plot numbers confirm that it is the same hand drawn map. Fields are amazingly often the same shape now and then.
Another point of help can sometimes be the Apportionment Schedule, if the plots have named places which can be identified and found on the comparison map.
The first Tithe Map I used was from the Hampshire Record Office. Latterly I use the Tithe Apportionment and Maps held at The Genealogist, under the Landowner & Occupier Record Collection. Some of their Tithe Maps are now geolocated, which makes matching a lot easier.
Spreadsheet tab - Lookups A
Working on the tab Lookups A and from the Tithe Apportionment Maps, OS Maps held at the The National Library of Scotland, and the Esri COE Pariah Map. Referring to the Parish itself, what are the significant settlements of the time. The Esri COE Parish Map give the current extent of the parish, which is probably not the same as the time of the Tithe Apportionment, but will assist in interpreting the other, older maps.
Click on the map both for details about the parish and to show the current boundary.
Compare settlements to the relevant old OS map.
Another source of information is British History Online. The link is a description of the Parish of Nursling, Hampshire.
I currently have a subscription to The Genealogist which with their recent enhancement, of geolocated maps, allows me to check which settlements I have identified are actually within the Tithe Map.
Then it is just a case of entering those settlements into the table headed 'Valid_Settlement' on the tab 'Lookups A', and selecting from the dropdown if they are a hamlet, or village, etc.
Refresh All on the spreadsheet and that information is now available in the 'Location' tab of the spreadsheet.
Spreadsheet tab - PT Plot number.
Working on the tab 'PT Plot number' and data from the The Schedule.
The first elements are two simple Pivot Tables. The first gives the total number of Plots recorded in the dataset in the 'Plot Registry', and the second checks for duplicate plot number entries. If found to have more that one entry for a particular plot number, check if it is a transcription error, and correct accordingly. If it is an error on the original Tithe Apportionment or Map, add a non-numeric suffix to one of the numbers, perhaps a special character such as a # or a *. All plot numbers it the spreadsheet engine must be unique for the cross referencing to work. Make a note of the change and why in the associated note column.
It next part is jiggery-pokery. It is all about the complexities of sorting a list of both numbers and numbers with an alpha suffix. One way is to use the pivot table sorted list. This however, has the numbers first followed by the numbers with the suffix. These are all text entries, so 7a comes after 429b. It is manageable, but not elegant.
The column headed 'Plot number numeric sort' is the resultant info following a little jiggery-pokery, where the 7a comes after the 6, so is more intuitive to use.
Once all the plots have been added to the 'Plot Registry', move to the 'PT Plot number' and check that the formulas extend to all the rows necessary to capture the whole of the 'Plot Registry' dataset, including the ranges on the formula, in the 'Plot number numeric sort'.
Do some cross checks to see if the results are as expected.
There will be a string of zeros at the start of the column as the sub-subtotal, and subtotal lines do not have a plot number but are still part of the dataset.
Move to the end of the zeros, and copy the contents of the column, from the first non-zero cell, to the last non-zero cell, and paste as values only into the column headed 'Plot' in the table on the tab 'Location'
That should instantly fill in the relevant data from the 'Plot Registry' tab.
Check that the data is as expected for a few sample plot numbers, both numeric and alpha-numeric.
If all is well, move to the next step, which is populating the 'Location' tab, as described below.
Spreadsheet tab - Location
Working on the 'Location' tab and data from the The Schedule and the Tithe Map
The first column is populated as above described in Spreadsheet tab - PT Plot number.
The next eight columns fill in before your eyes based on the plot number entered in the 'Plot' column.
Do not be tempted to mix up the data entry tasks by starting this table before completing the transcription of the The Schedule into the 'Plot Registry'. The plot list is not designed to be dynamic, on purpose. If new plots are added, the list will have to be generated again. This will result in some, if not all, of the Latitude and Longitude data becoming disassociated from the plot number and the eight other pieces of information. This will result in either starting the 'Location' work again from scratch, or a lot of copy and paste work to try and remedy the error of judgement.
How to find and add the Latitude and Longitude.
Starting with the plots that have named places, find the same places on the OS 25" map. Then look at all the surrounding information. Are there enough similarities to fairly robustly identify the place as being one and the same.
For instance, on the Nursling Title Apportionment, in the Description column of the Schedule, there is and entry of 'Horns Inn & Garden' against plot 278. There is a Horns Inn marked on the old OS 25" Map and there are similarities in plot shape and size, together with similarities with road layout and adjacent fields and premises. All in all, enough to make a preliminary assessment that they are one in the same place. The Latitude and Longitude of the cursors position are shown in the bottom right hand corner of the map image. One way would be to write that number on a scrap of paper and manually type it in. However, I prefer to add a marker pin to the relevant point on the map. Then look to the website address, and the last few characters, after 'marker=' are the Latitude and Longitude of the marker and therefore the plot. Copy that data and place it into the appropriate line in the column headed Lat Long. The spreadsheet is set up for that format and extracts the relevant Latitude and Longitude.
Before moving on to the next, copy the full website address, of the map and marker, paste it into the 'Map Link' column. Excel normally automatically turns this into a hyperlink. This allows you and others to look at the source of your data, so it can be reviewed, checked, and validated. The repetition of work does not take long and is well worth it, especially from a data integrity point of view.
Repeat for the other identified named places, and then consider the comparison for the whole of the tithe map to the OS map and ascertain if there is a reasonable correlation, including reference to the Compose Rose.
If so, work along roads and rivers, to establish plot Lat Long and then start the infill areas. It is surprising how may fields still have either the same basic shape, or there are discernible similarities between joined fields or woodlands, and their constituent parts.
I tend to go for the approximate centre of mass, as it were, for the placing of the mark, but for the purposes of this exercise it does not have to be exact. As long as it is in the right field, it is good enough. Some plots are so small that there is little option for maneuver.
Eventually, after a significant amount of time you will find that all of the plots have been geolocated.
A quick note regarding the use of Inns as a place name. Sometimes they change name, and it will take some time and research to trace back to the time of the Tithe Apportionment to establish the names then and now. It may therefore be expeditious to discount it as and initial plot to be correlated, and just work it the same as the other plots in the area.
Google Earth
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ESRI Story Maps
ESRI Story Maps
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Creating the Website
Creating the Website
My website articles with regard to Tithe Apportionment has been amended due to Mr Gerry Dutton of Basingstoke whose work on the The North Hampshire Tithe Map Project and the resultant website gave me the inspiration to consider my work on Tithe Apportionment and Maps as a collective as well as the previous thought of only including the work within the relevant One Place Studies or articles.
At the time of writing I am building my fourth Tithe Apportionment dataset and the associated articles within my Genealogy website. Unsurprisingly it has evolved and improved on each draft. For the forth iteration I am creating a template to structure both the information and the resultant articles, based on past experience and The North Hampshire Tithe Map Project.
I will use the new template, which is not a copy of The North Hampshire Tithe Map Project website, but a re-imagining of mine, to rework my previous articles on the subject. They will be separated form the original articles and used as both standalone article together with articles in articles for the original work and the collective Tithe work.
The format will be;
Introduction
The first paragraph will be;
Introduction
For details about what Tithes where, how they came about, and the Tithe Computation Act that gave us all this wonderful information read the article titled Tithe Commutation Act 1836.
This link points to this article but avoids repeating the same text every time there is a Parish Specific Tithe Apportionment Article.
Having said that, including it as an article within article, does make the overarching article a standalone document. It can be skipped if already read in another article.
Notes
Notes and Stories
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Transcription
I transcribe the text of the Tithe Agreement directly into the article for the Tithe Apportionment for the Parish. I use additional script fonts the help maintain the emphasis of the original document, but without attempting to make it a facsimile of that document.
Once I have completed and checked the transcription, I make a copy of it lower down the article, convert it all the Arial 12, select the plain text transcription, and print the selection to pdf. I then upload the file and place a pdf link just beneath the first transcription section, and delete the plain text transcription from which it was formed. Nobody wants to read the same dry text twice. This gives the ability for those that want or need to, read the plain text version as a pdf in a new window.
Primary Data
The Primary Data element of the website is by en-large from the tab of the same name. The spreadsheet page is embedded into the website, with the grid showing. It is interactive, so a change in the spreadsheet is reflected in the website upon refresh.
Detailed Data - Summary
The Detailed Data - Summary element of the website is from the tab called 'Names of L and O'. The spreadsheet page is embedded into the website, with the grid showing. It is interactive, so a change in the spreadsheet is reflected in the website upon refresh. Your text...
Detailed Data - Summary Landowners and Occupiers
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Tithe Apportionment background
The Tithe Commutation Act 1836
An Act for the Commutation of Tithes in England and Wales. - 6 & 7 Will 4 c 71. Royal assent; 13 August 1836
Together with several amendments;
Act amended by Tithe Act 1839 (c. 62), Tithe Act 1842 (c. 54), Tithe Act 1860 (c. 93), Tithe Act 1878 (c. 42), Tithe Act 1891 (c. 8) and Tithe Act 1918 (c. 54)
The Tithe Act, 1936 (26 Geo. V and 1 Edw. VIII. C.43) abolished all tithe rent charges. Responsibility for tithe documents created under the tithe acts (1836, 1837, 1839, 1860, 1891) were placed under the charge of the Master of the Rolls, who has the authority to transfer them to an approved place of deposit. This responsibility is exercised by The National Archives: Historical Manuscripts Commission. The Master of the Rolls has issued Tithe (Copies of Instruments of apportionment) Rules 1960 (SI 1960/2440), as amended by the Tithe (Copies of Instruments of Apportionment) (Amendment) Rules 1963 (SI 1963/977)] concerning the care, custody, access to, and definition of tithe documents.
The start and end of Tithes.
Religion, of many faiths, the Established Church, the Pope, the Governments, and Kings of the time shaped the idea and practice of collecting tithes.
From a simple pious concept of the donation one tenth of your crop to the church, for charity, changed over time and created some very rich churches and some very poor people, and a degree of discontent.
Tithes lasted in England for over a thousand years, partly in goods and latterly as money.
All intertwined with a Norman, with Viking Blood, thinking he was the rightful successor to the English Throne, a Pope who wanted to bring Ireland into the European sphere, or should that read his sphere, and Henry VIII wanting to have a male heir to prolong the Tudor epoch. Little did he know Elizabeth I would be so good at being monarch. Power and politics, over centuries of time.
Splits in the Christian Church
There were three major schisms:
- 1) the one in the 5th century that split eastern Christendom in two;
- 2) the one the 11th century that divided the Latin church and the Byzantine church;
- and 3) the Reformation in the 16th century in which Protestantism arose and split from the Roman Catholic church.
2) On July 16, 1054, Patriarch of Constantinople Michael Cerularius was excommunicated, starting the “Great Schism” that created the two largest denominations in Christianity—the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox faiths.
3) The Reformation — more properly called the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation — was a 16th-century religious and political uprising against the authority of the Pope that led to was a schism in Western Christianity. It was initiated by Martin Luther with the publication of the “Ninety-five Theses” in 1517 and continued by Huldrych Zwingli, John Calvin and other Protestant Reformers. The Reformation triggered the bloody the Counter-Reformation, which sucked in much of Europe, and lasted until the end of the Thirty Years' War in 1648. The Reformation led to the division of Western Christianity into different denominations such Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican, Anabaptist and Unitarian. The Eastern Orthodox Christian church had split off in 1054.
The Reformation began as theological debate over real and perceived Church corruption. Early dissenters included John Wycliffe (1320-84) in England, and john Huss (burned as a heretic in 1415) in Bohemia. Martin Luther was from Germany. Other major players in the Reformation were Huldrych Zwingli of Zurich, John Calvin of Geneva and King Henry VIII of England
The Reformation was aided by the invigorated intellectual freedom of the Renaissance and spirit of nationalism in England, France, Germany and Bohemia. In the 16th century the church was corrupt and blemished by greedy clergy and decadent monks, extracting financial burdens from the laity to pay for their indulgences and ambitions. The General Councils of 15th century failed to reform he church. After the Reformation the power of the Catholic Church was greatly weakened
What is the relevance of these splits? The divisions within the Christian Church have in part contributed to the discontent leading to the Tithe Wars and the subsequent Tithe Commutation Act. The Act led to the creation of very useful set of documents for Family Historians, with information about people, places, and land usage.
Feudal system
A copy of some text from the ESRI Story Map of Whiteparish One Place Study
The feudal system and the Domesday Book
The feudal system was a way of organising society into different groups based on their roles. It had the king at the top with all of the control, and the peasants at the bottom doing all of the work.
How did the feudal system start?
The results created what's known as the Domesday Book. It actually described a wide range of ways in which people used the land, but historians suggested that it had a basic structure:
- King – owned all the land.
- Barons – the king gave some land to the barons in return for money and men for the army.
- Knights – the barons gave some of their land to the knights if they promised to fight when needed.
- Peasants – the knights gave a few strips of land to the peasants and the peasants had to share their produce with them. They were not allowed to leave and were not free men
In the Middle Ages, anyone who was higher up in this system than you was a 'lord' and of course the monarch had no one above them. What kept the system working was loyalty. Stay loyal and keep the land and wealth. Fail and your income was taken from you by your lord.
Centuries later the system was not hugely different and Tithes came into play.
Tithes were originally a tax which required one tenth of all agricultural produce to be paid annually to support the local church and clergy. After the Reformation much land passed from the Church to lay owners who inherited entitlement to receive tithes, along with the land.
The Tithe Acts of 1836 and 1936 abolished the old system, but two hundred years ago tithes were engraved upon the lives of the entire population: a source of income, luxury and avarice for the privileged; a tax at 2s
Before Tithes
Fifteenths and tenths, 1334
FIFTEENTHS AND TENTHS: QUOTAS OF 1334
'Fifteenths and tenths, 1334', in A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 4, ed. Elizabeth Crittall (London, 1959), pp. 294-303. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol4/pp294-303 [accessed 24 June 2021].
By the last quarter of the 13th century Englishmen had become familiar with a system of tax assessment which took no account of such old-fashioned assessments of wealth as hides or knight's fees. This new system of assessment was based on a valuation of certain personal property, usually described by the vague word 'movables'. Of this value Parliament had granted the king a fraction: the fraction itself varied from grant to grant but in each grant a greater fraction was levied on cities, towns, and royal demesne than on other areas. Thus in 1332 the townsman found himself contributing a tenth of his assessed movables but the countryman only a fifteenth. In addition there were some categories of goods which the collectors were instructed to ignore, and as a result the statistics from the collections deal only with those Englishmen and women who were wealthy enough to fall under the scrutiny of the local assessors. It is rather like an iceberg the size of whose submerged depths is unknown. In addition there was probably evasion and under-assessment everywhere.
Frustfield Hundred 274s.
- Abbotstone (in Whiteparish);50s 0d
- Alderstone (in Whiteparish);13s 4d
- Cowesfield (in Whiteparish);100s 0d
- Landford; 66s 8d
- Whelpley (in Whiteparish); 44s 0d
Whiteparish does not appear as a separate settlement in 1334, assuming that the (in Whiteparish) is a later addition when the table was constructed from the original data.
Tithe background
Tithe background
From Wikipedia, extracts from articles about Tithes and Tithe Commutation
A tithe (/taɪð/; from Old English: teogoþa "tenth") is a one-tenth part of something, paid as a contribution to a religious organization or compulsory tax to government.
Church collection of religious offerings and taxes - England and Wales
The right to receive tithes was granted to the English churches by King Ethelwulf in 855. The Saladin tithe was a royal tax, but assessed using ecclesiastical boundaries, in 1188. The legal validity of the tithe system was affirmed under the Statute of Westminster of 1285. The Dissolution of the Monasteries led to the transfer of many rights to tithe to secular landowners and the Crown – and tithes could be extinguished until 1577 under an Act of the 37th year of Henry VIII's reign. Adam Smith criticized the system in The Wealth of Nations (1776), arguing that a fixed rent would encourage peasants to work far more efficiently.
The system gradually ended with the Tithe Commutation Act 1836, whose long-lasting Tithe Commission replaced them with a commutation payment, land award and/or rentcharges to those paying the commutation payment and took the opportunity to map out (apportion) residual chancel repair liability where the rectory had been appropriated during the medieval period by a religious house or college. Its records give a snapshot of land ownership in most parishes, the Tithe Files, are a socio-economic history resource. The rolled-up payment of several years' tithe would be divided between the tithe-owners as at the date of their extinction.
This commutation reduced problems to the ultimate payers by effectively folding tithes in with rents however, it could cause transitional money supply problems by raising the transaction demand for money. Later the decline of large landowners led tenants to become freeholders and again have to pay directly; this also led to renewed objections of principle by non-Anglicans.[39] It also kept intact a system of chancel repair liability affecting the minority of parishes where the rectory had been lay-appropriated. The precise land affected in such places hinged on the content of documents such as the content of deeds of merger and apportionment maps.
Tithe redemption
Rent charges in lieu of abolished English tithes paid by landowners were converted by a public outlay of money under the Tithe Act 1936 into annuities paid to the state through the Tithe Redemption Commission. Such payments were transferred in 1960 to the Board of Inland Revenue, and those remaining were terminated by the Finance Act 1977.
The Tithe Act 1951 established the compulsory redemption of English tithes by landowners where the annual amounts payable were less than £1, so abolishing the bureaucracy and costs of collecting small sums of money.
Ireland
From the English Reformation in the 16th century, most Irish people chose to remain Roman Catholic and had by now to pay tithes valued at about 10 per cent of an area's agricultural produce, to maintain and fund the established state church, the Anglican Church of Ireland, to which only a small minority of the population converted. Irish Presbyterians and other minorities like the Quakers and Jews were in the same situation.
The collection of tithes was resisted in the period 1831–36, known as the Tithe War. Thereafter, tithes were reduced and added to rents with the passing of the Tithe Commutation Act in 1836. With the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland by the Irish Church Act 1869, tithes were abolished.
Tithe War
The Tithe War (Irish: Cogadh na nDeachúna) was a campaign of mainly nonviolent civil disobedience, punctuated by sporadic violent episodes, in Ireland between 1830 and 1836 in reaction to the enforcement of tithes on the Roman Catholic majority for the upkeep of the established state church, the Church of Ireland. Tithes were payable in cash or kind and payment was compulsory, irrespective of an individual's religious adherence.
Tithe payment was an obligation on those working the land to pay ten per cent of the value of certain types of agricultural produce for the upkeep of the clergy and maintenance of the assets of the church. After the Reformation in Ireland of the 16th century, the assets of the church were allocated by King Henry VIII to the new established church. The majority in Ireland who remained loyal to the old religion were then obliged to make tithe payments which were directed away from their own church to the reformed one. This increased the financial burden on subsistence farmers, many of whom were at the same time making voluntary contributions to the construction or purchase of new premises to provide Roman Catholic places of worship. The new established church was supported by only a minority of the population, seventy-five percent of whom continued to adhere to Roman Catholicism.
Emancipation for Roman Catholics was promised by Pitt during the campaign in favour of the Act of Union of 1801 which was approved by the Irish Parliament, thus abolishing itself and creating the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. However, King George III refused to keep Pitt's promises. It was not until 1829 that the Duke of Wellington's government promoted and parliament enacted the Roman Catholic Emancipation Act, in the teeth of defiant royal opposition from King George IV.
But the obligation to pay tithes to the Church of Ireland remained, causing much resentment. Roman Catholic clerical establishments in Ireland had refused government offers of tithe-sharing with the established church, fearing that British government regulation and control would come with acceptance of such money.
(British rule in Ireland began with the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169. Most of Ireland gained independence from Great Britain following the Anglo-Irish War as a Dominion called the Irish Free State in 1922, and became a fully independent republic following the passage of the Republic of Ireland Act in 1949. The papal bull Laudabiliter of Pope Adrian IV was issued in 1155. It granted the Angevin King Henry II of England the title Dominus Hibernae (Latin for "Lord of Ireland"). Laudabiliter authorised the king to invade Ireland, to bring the country into the European sphere. In return, Henry was required to remit a penny per hearth of the tax roll to the Pope. This was reconfirmed by Adrian's successor Pope Alexander III in 1172. When Pope Clement VII excommunicated the king of England, Henry VIII, in 1533, the constitutional position of the lordship in Ireland became uncertain. Henry had broken away from the Holy See and declared himself the head of the Church in England. He had petitioned Rome to procure an annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. Clement VII refused Henry's request and Henry subsequently refused to recognise the Roman Catholic Church's vestigial sovereignty over Ireland, and was excommunicated again in late 1538 by Pope Paul III. The Treason Act (Ireland) 1537 was passed to counteract this.
The Lordship of Ireland (Irish: Tiarnas na hÉireann), sometimes referred to retroactively as Norman Ireland, was the part of Ireland ruled by the King of England (styled as "Lord of Ireland") and controlled by loyal Anglo-Norman lords between 1177 and 1542. The lordship was created following the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169–1171. It was a papal fief, granted to the Plantagenet kings of England by the Holy See, via Laudabiliter. As the lord of Ireland was also the king of England, he was represented locally by a governor, variously known as justiciar, lieutenant, or lord deputy.
The kings of England claimed lordship over the whole island, but in reality the king's rule only ever extended to parts of the island. The rest of the island—known as Gaelic Ireland—remained under the control of various Gaelic Irish kingdoms or chiefdoms, who were often at war with the Anglo-Normans.
The area under English rule and law grew and shrank over time, and reached its greatest extent in the late 13th and early 14th centuries. The lordship then went into decline, brought on by its invasion by Scotland in 1315–18, the Great Famine of 1315–17, and the Black Death of the 1340s. The fluid political situation and Norman feudal system allowed a great deal of autonomy for the Anglo-Norman lords in Ireland, who carved out earldoms for themselves and had almost as much authority as some of the native Gaelic kings. Some Anglo-Normans became Gaelicised and rebelled against the English administration. The English attempted to curb this by passing the Statutes of Kilkenny (1366), which forbade English settlers from taking up Irish law, language, custom and dress. The period ended with the creation of the Kingdom of Ireland in 1542.)
The Kingdom of Ireland (Classical Irish: an Ríoghacht Éireann; Modern Irish: an Ríocht Éireann, pronounced [ənˠ ˌɾˠiːxt̪ˠ ˈeːɾʲən̪ˠ]) was a monarchy on the island of Ireland that was a client state of the Kingdom of England and then of Great Britain. It existed from 1542 until 1800. It was ruled by the monarchs of England and then the monarchs of Great Britain. The kingdom was administered from Dublin Castle by a viceroy appointed by the English king — the Lord Deputy of Ireland. A Parliament of Ireland, composed of Anglo-Irish and native nobles, was created. From 1661-1801, the administration controlled an army. A Protestant state church — the Church of Ireland — was established. Although styled a kingdom, for most of its history it was, de facto, an English dependency.
The Protestant Ascendancy, meeting in their Parliament of Ireland, passed the Acts of Union 1800 which abolished both the parliament itself and the kingdom.[5] The act was also passed by the Parliament of Great Britain. On the first day of 1801, a new state — the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland — was established which united the parliaments of Ireland and of Great Britain into a single legislature — the Parliament of the United Kingdom.)
Scotland
In Scotland teinds were the tenths of certain produce of the land appropriated to the maintenance of the Church and clergy. At the Reformation most of the Church property was acquired by the Crown, nobles and landowners. In 1567 the Privy Council of Scotland provided that a third of the revenues of lands should be applied to paying the clergy of the reformed Church of Scotland. In 1925 the system was recast by statute and provision was made for the standardisation of stipends at a fixed value in money. The Court of Session acted as the Teind Court. Teinds were finally abolished by section 56 of the Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000.
Tithe Commutation History
Tithe Commutation History
The extract below is from the The National Library of Wales. The same applied to England.
What Were Tithes?
Tithes were payments made from early times for the support of the parish church and its clergy. Originally these payments were made in kind (crops, wool, milk, young stock, etc.) and usually represented a tenth (tithe) of the yearly production of cultivation or stock rearing.
There were 3 types of tithe:
- Predial tithes were the products of crop husbandry - such as grain, woodland, and vegetables
- Mixed tithes were the products of animal husbandry - such as calves, lambs, wool and milk.
- Personal tithes were the profits of man's labour - such as fishing or milling (and largely insignificant after 1549).
It is more usual to refer to tithes as ‘Great Tithes’ and ‘Small Tithes’. The great tithes, also known as the ’rectorial tithes’, were payable to the rector and generally comprised the predial tithes of corn, grain, hay and wood while the small tithes, also known as the ‘vicarial tithes’, were payable to the vicar and comprised all other tithes
The ownership of the tithe was a property right that could be bought and sold, leased or mortgaged, or assigned to others. This resulted in many of the rectorial tithes passing into lay hands - particularly after the dissolution of the monasteries. These tithes then became the personal property of the new owners, or lay impropriators. After the sale of the tithes forfeited to the Crown in the 1530s, about 22.8% of the net value of tithes in Wales were held by lay impropriatorsat the time of commutation in 1836. A vicar usually continued to have the spiritual care of the parish and to receive the vicarial tithes.
From early times money payments had begun to be substituted for payments in kind. Fixed sums (moduses) were substituted for some categories of production, particularly for livestock and perishable produce; while adjustable payments known as compositions, which were sometimes assessed annually, were increasingly being substituted in local arrangements in latter years.
The National Archives holds a similar text as a guide, however, it was archived in 2015. Below is an extract from the archived version, just in case it disappears. The current version is In The National Archives Research Guides
The history of tithes
Originally, tithes were payments in kind (crops, wool, milk etc.) comprising an agreed proportion of the yearly profits from farming, and made by parishioners for the support of their parish church and its clergy. In theory, tithes were payable on
(i) all things arising from the ground and subject to annual increase - grain, wood, vegetables etc.;
(ii) all things nourished by the ground - the young of cattle, sheep etc., and animal produce such as milk, eggs and wool; and
(iii) the produce of man's labour, particularly the profits from mills and fishing.
Such tithes were termed respectively predial, mixed and personal tithes. Tithes were also divided into great and small tithes; generally speaking, corn, grain, hay and wood were considered great tithes, and all other predial tithes together with all mixed and personal tithes were classed as small tithes. It was common, but by no means universal, for the great tithes to be payable to the rector and the small tithes to the vicar of the parish.
During the dissolution of the monasteries, much church land - and in many cases also the accompanying rectorial tithes - passed into lay ownership. These tithes became the personal property of the new owners or lay impropriators. Usually a vicar continued to have spiritual oversight of the parish and to receive its vicarial tithes.
From early times money payments began to be substituted for payments in kind, a tendency further stimulated by enclosures, particularly the parliamentary enclosures of the late18th century. Enclosures were often made in order to improve the land and its yield, and had they proceeded without some arrangements respecting tithes, the rectors, vicars and lay owners of the tithes would have received an automatically increased income, as indeed they did when cultivation was improved without preliminary enclosure. One object of the Enclosure Acts was to get rid of the obligation to pay tithes. This could be done in one of two ways: by the allotment of land in lieu of tithes, or by the substitution either of a fixed money payment or of one which varied with the price of corn (hence the name corn rents applied to payments in lieu of tithes). The limits of the land allotted, or of the land charged with a money payment, were generally shown on a map attached to the Enclosure Award.
Tithe commutation from 1836
Statutory enclosure was a purely local affair, prompted by local landowners. Although much of the country was covered, in 1836 tithes were still payable in the majority of parishes in England and Wales. Scotland and Ireland have a different history: the Acts cited in this research guide did not apply there. In 1836, the government decided to commute tithes (i.e. to substitute money payments for payments in kind) throughout the country. The Bill received Royal Assent on 13 August 1836; three Tithe Commissioners were appointed, and the process of commutation began. Although the Tithe Act 1836 (6 & 7 Will IV, c.71) is a long and complicated piece of legislation, the underlying principle was the simple one of substituting for the payment of tithes in kind corn rents of the same sort as were already payable in many parishes under the authority of a local Enclosure Act. These new corn rents, known as tithe rentcharges, were not subject to local variation, but varied according to the price of corn calculated on a septennial average for the whole country. Existing corn rents were left unaffected: they continued to be paid according to the varied provisions of the local Acts which created them.
The first task of the Commissioners was to discover to what extent commutation had already taken place. Enquiries were directed to every parish or township listed in the census returns.
The initial process in the commutation of tithes in a parish was an agreement between the tithe-owners and landowners or, in default of agreement, an award by the Tithe Commissioners. Generally the next stage was the apportionment of payments, and the substance of the preceding agreement or award was then recited in the preamble of the instrument of apportionment.
Tithe maps
The Tithe Maps are by no means as uniform as the apportionments (see Section 6), varying greatly in scale, accuracy and size. At the outset, the Tithe Commissioners had attempted to secure a uniform and high standard. However in most cases there was no suitable map already in existence, and while there were many skilled land surveyors available, the expense of any new survey had to be met by the landowners. Insistence upon a fixed standard would have retarded the progress of commutation, so concessions therefore had to be made. When the 1836 Act was amended in the following year, a provision was inserted to the effect that, whilst every tithe map should be signed by the Commissioners, a map or plan should not be deemed evidence of the quantity of the land, or treated as accurate, unless it was sealed as well as signed by the Commissioners (Tithe Act 1837, s.1). Approximately 1,900 only of the tithe maps - about one-sixth of the whole - were sealed by the Tithe Commissioners, and it is these alone - called first-class maps - which can be accepted as accurate. The unsealed (or second-class) maps constitute a very mixed collection - indeed, some are little more than topographical sketches.
In many cases, discrepancies between apportionment and map subsequently created difficulties in the administration of payments and redemptions. At the time of the survey, when all the landowners concerned were well acquainted with the ground, the exact area of a piece of land or its precise delineation on a map might have appeared of little significance. The matter assumed more importance as time went on, particularly when readily-identifiable tithe areas vanished as a result of later developments. It is unnecessary to discuss in detail the problems of interpreting a tithe map; but it is well to bear in mind that reliance cannot be placed upon the area of individual tithe areas stated in an apportionment or computed from the tithe map, unless the map is sealed.
The numbers of the tithe areas on the map correspond to those in the schedules to the apportionment. These numbers are not consecutive.
Back to the The National Library of Wales.
The tithe maps
The accuracy of the maps depended on the skill of the local surveyors employed on the task. More than 200 different surveyors worked in Wales.
The first specification (British Parliamentary Papers, Session 1837, Vol. XLI 405) for the mapping proved to be over-ambitious. This was drawn up by one of the Assistant Commissioners, Lieutenant R K Dawson of the Ordnance Survey, and was intended to be at the scale of 3 chains to the inch (1:2,376) with a standardised set of symbols.
Unfortunately, this was not adopted, because the landowners had to pay the costs of the survey and many were unwilling, especially if they already had estate plans that could do the job.
Amending legislation had to be passed in 1837 permitting the presentation of less accurate maps, often on a smaller scale. Many of these maps were compiled from existing estate maps and involved very little new surveying.
Those maps that met the standard were calledfirst-class plans and received a seal from the Tithe Commissioners. The Tithe Commissioners refused their seal to inferior plans.
In Wales only 50 of 1,091 were sealed as first-class maps, mostly for Districts in Monmouthshire or Breconshire. The remainder were simply certified as being the documents on which the tithe rent-charge apportionment was based.
These second-class maps vary in scale and quality; there are some at the prescribed scale of 3 chains to the inch which for some reason were not sealed as first-class maps; while others are little more than topographical sketches and of no value for information about property boundaries, e.g. Llangeitho, Cardiganshire (1:7,920) and Nantglyn, Denbighshire (1:21,120). Some maps were simply enlargements of the Ordnance Survey One-inch maps.
Updates
Tithe Apportionment Updates
Dec 2025 Jan 2026
Not updates on the Tithes, but on what I do with them and the process I use.
I have recently completed the Nursling Tithe Apportionment spreadsheet and used the data to create an ESRI Story Map as part of the Nursling One Place Study.
The spreadsheet used to record the data needed reworking as the Agreement had Leese and Lessor in addition to Landowner and Occupier.
All the previous Tithe Apportionment spreadsheets were built on the previous, apart from the first one obviously, Similar but different.
I though I had enough examples to make it worth creating a Template from the Nursling Tithe Apportionment spreadsheet.
Which I have done.
I am now reworking all the previous Tithe Apportionment parish spreadsheets to fit the template. Hopefully, I wont have to change the structure of the template to accommodate the earlier data. If I do have to, I will have to repeat the cycle of reworking until, it all fits harmoniously.
The idea is still to keep the spreadsheets as separate entities, and datasets, but to use Excel Power Query and Data Manager, to absorb all of the data into a single dataset from which all information can be compared and filtered, all within the same system and schema.
One Drive has been reconfigured accordingly, together with the concept as pulling together Census data and Parish Register data, such as baptisms. The later two are in early stages of development so there will be more about that here later.
The first Tithe Apportionment spreadsheet being remastered is Millbrook. It is not a short process.
Tithe Apportionment - Sopley
Tithe Apportionment - Parish of Sopley, Hampshire
Introduction
Tithe Apportionment
Time for a bit of time travel. Away from the Vikings, William the Conqueror, and the Domesday Book. Not all the way to the current day but to another significant change in the rural community.
Whereas an Agreement for the COMPUTATION of TITHES in the Parish of Sopley in the County of Southampton was, on the Eighteenth day of June in the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty Nine confirmed by the Tithe Commissioners for England and Wales, of which Agreement, with the schedule thereunto annexed, ...
A jump to 18/06/1839 form 1086 in a single leap, missing out the Inclosure Acts of 1773 et al. Sometimes known as the Enclosure Acts.
I have recently purchased a copy of the Sopley Tithe Map and Award from the Hampshire Record Office. This is the record of the Tithe Survey for the Sopley area.
Tithes were originally a tax which required one tenth of all agricultural produce to be paid annually to support the local church and clergy. After the Reformation much land passed from the Church to lay owners who inherited entitlement to receive tithes, along with the land.
By the early 19th century tithe payment in kind seemed a very out-of-date practice, while payment of tithes per se became unpopular, against a background of industrialisation, religious dissent and agricultural depression. The 1836 Tithe Commutation Act required tithes in kind to be converted to more convenient monetary payments called tithe rentcharge. The Tithe Survey was established to find out which areas were subject to tithes, who owned them, how much was payable and to whom.
From the map and award I hope to be able to locate the place of residence of some of my ancestors.
Introduction & Conclusion
The award, which may have also been known as a living, was granted to Reverend John Parish Hammond, Clerk Vicar of the Parish, and his successors, in the sum of £330 and 10 shillings per annum in respect of the vicaraul and small tithes. The Rector, William Wyndham, of Denton, Wiltshire, and his heirs and assigns, is granted £552, in respect of the Rectoral or Great Tithes of Corn and Grain. What sort of living would that provide? Depending on how it was calculated the vicar would be on, somewhere in the range between £28,360 and £380,000. Not too shabby. The rector would fair somewhat better, not surprisingly. His income range was £47,370 to £634,700, each year. Time to read some Jane Austen again? Quite a comfortable living.
The very first entry in the schedule prompted another diversion including some therapeutic colouring in, albeit digital. The Tithe Map on the CD from Hampshire Record Office is not for reproduction. However, I have a subscription to The Genealogist and they have recently published the Tithe Survey data from the National Archives. It has predominantly the same information as the CD. However, it does provide a download button. The first entry of the Sopley schedule is a Landowner called Elizabeth Arney. She has one primary tenant and several lesser tenants. Using the tithe maps, the historic maps and internet maps, the majority of her holdings were found to be in and around Avon, in Hampshire. I downloaded the Tithe Map of Avon, part of the Parish of Sopley, and then colour washed the plots for the three major landowners in the area. There are a few plots not coloured in, generally in individual ownership.
Not quite the current fad of adult colouring in books, but similar.
I find it interesting that the large majority of the land is owned by just three people. I suspect that this is not that unusual for the period. In the Domesday Book period the Landowners would have predominantly have been the aristocracy. The blue is however a Sir, not quite blue blood, or perhaps he is. The orange represents the small amount of Common Land left after all the changes to rural life.
Elisabeth Arney owned 39 acre 1 rood 16 perch, or 39.35 acres, or 15.92 Hectares, and had to pay the vicar £4 14s 10d in Rent-Charge, each year. Together with a further £9 19s 7d to the impropriator (a person to whom a benefice is granted as their property). Is this the Rectors Share, in which case it was paid to William Wyndham.
The next landowner on the schedule is George Aldridge. His middle name is either Clive or Olive. The Genealogist transcription opted for Olive. I'm more inclined towards the more conventional Clive. The easy bit is that he owns and lives at Sopley Mill. Easy to find on both old and current maps as the building is still there. The interesting thing for me is the another of his plots. Plot 497D, which is annotated as Sopley Sharphams, or something similar.
Looking at the plot on the tithe map it seems to be an area of strip farming south of his mill, on the other side of the river, not far from Sopley Common. This led me to looking for different names for strip farming and consequently a site on field systems. Open fields is one name, but that does not fit with Sharphams.
An extract of the article;-
The move towards enclosure gathered pace during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. At this time Parliamentary enclosure field systems were laid out through a series of Parliamentary Acts resulting in wholesale enclosure of land previously held within the open-field system. In total, 21% of England was enclosed by the Acts; 7 million acres of land was affected, two-thirds of which had been arable, the remainder waste. The Parliamentary fields in many ways resembled earlier regular enclosed field systems in that they were typically rectilinear/square in outline and set together, where topography allowed, with mathematical regularity.
Commons and open-field or strips were lost in this process. The strips have been replaced with fields, albeit still relatively small.
Parish of Sopley Tithe Apportionment Data Set
Although the paragraphs of this article are not dated it has been a few weeks since the last entry. I have been very busy extracting the data from the Tithe Apportionment and transcribing it into a spreadsheet. The images have detail pages and summary pages. Using both to create a form of double entry enabled me to validate my own input, and incidentally, that of the original scribes. The numbers for acres and the two rents were correct on the original and the double entry spreadsheet. There were a very few anomalies in spelling of names between detail and summary, and I opted for the detail version. One error was a tenant of Elizabeth Arney who was described as Henry Corbin in the Summary but George Corbin in the Detail. I have opted for George Corbin. I hope this will be confirmed by the 1841 Census.
Using the spreadsheet I can now analysis land usage and ownership. See potential family ties. The total number of shops for the whole parish is amazingly low. The only industrial premises in the parish appears to be the Sopley Mill, whereas Farms abound. There are 46 plots which appear to be residences, the majority described as cottage, with some houses, farm houses, and one mansion house.
The latter being Sopley Park, which at the time was owned and occupied by George Brander Willis Esquire. George was a 1st Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, from 17 November 1809 an fought in the Peninsular War. He was also a painter with his View of Bayonne (1814) being held in the Royal Collection Trust. Click here to see the image held at the Royal Museums Greenwich. George was the son of Revd James Willis, fought with Wellington and died on 29th August 1868, at the age of 79. He was about 20 when he became a 1st Lieutenant, and served his country in Holland, Spain and America.
However, the biggest landowner was Sir Henry Fane. He lived at plot 892, Avon Hills Cottage. the link to plot 892 is to The Genealogist website, which also holds images and index transcriptions of the Title Maps. I am a subscriber, so the link works for me, apologies if it does not work for you. I also used The Genealogist data to cross check mine if I was having trouble reading the script, or finding plots. Back to Avon Hills Cottage. I think cottage gives the wrong impression. Firstly the plot is 7 Acres 3 roods 30 perch, or 7.9375 Acres or 3.212 Hectares. That is very large for a cottage. Looking at other old maps and current Google Maps, plot 892 has Avon Tyrrel and Tyrrells Ford Country Inn & Hotel respectively. An extract from the hotel's website, 18th century Manor House hotel set in 8 acres of beautifully peaceful grounds on the edge of the New Forest. Tyrrells Ford Country Inn & hotel is situated in the Avon valley in Hampshire. Avon Tyrrel is has a rich history according to Wikipedia. Sir Henry Fane 26 November 1778 – 24 March 1840, also fought with Wellington, and had a distinguished army career, and served both as a member of Parliament and Commander-in-Chief of India. Sir Henry had holdings of about 2200 Acres across the Parish of Sopley, amounting to 64% of the Tithe area. Made up of Arable 1383.625, Meadow 302.5, Pasture 212.31, Wood 176.85, and others, across 80 tenants. The graph of Total Acres by Family Surname for the Parish of Sopley clearly illustrates the dominance of Sir Harry Fane in the Parish, and reinforces the map above with plots coloured in by landowner.
The Tice surname is next on the list, with a mear 8%. Even the Willis Family with the mansion house is just 1%, which is still a big landowner and very wealthy, just in a different league to Fane. This is only 1839, less than 200 years ago.
Again looking at the information extracted from the Tithe Apportionment using the spreadsheet. The graph represents the State of Cultivation recorded on the survey together with some reasonable assumptions based from the Lands and Premises data, shown in { }, with the largest being Arable 58%, followed by Meadow 13%, Pasture 9%, Wood 6%. Most definitely a farming community. The remaining significant slice of pie is (blank) at 9%, ie no recorded or implied use.
Notes
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Transcription
Transcription
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Dataset
The Dataset
The dataset comprises all of the transcribed information from the Tithe Apportionment and Maps together with additional information, including, inter alia, geolocation and census data. All held in an Excel Spreadsheet. The data is both analysed within the spreadsheet and formed into reports for export as csv files to populate the StoryMap data.
Primary Data
Primary Data
Pending population
Detailed Data - Summary
Detailed Data - Summary
Pending population
Detailed Data - Landowner and Occupier Summary
Detailed Data - Landowner and Occupier Summary
Pending population
Detailed Data - Schedule
Detailed Data - Schedule
Pending population
Land Usage
Graph of Land Usage in Whiteparish in 1842 from the Tithe Apportionment information.
Analysis of the land usage based on the Tithe Apportionment information, showing the primary use as arable at 61%, and secondary usages of woodland 18% and pasture 16%. Common and Furze land has been reduced to about 1%, presumably as a result of the Inclosure Acts, (Enclosure).
Land Ownership
Graph of Land Ownership in Whiteparish in 1842 from the Tithe Apportionment information.
Land Ownership is more widely distributed than in some parishes that I have looked at.
Scroll right to see the list of landowners associated to the graph.
Plot register
The Table with all the data of the Detailed Plot register.
This table has the Landowners and Occupiers of all the Plots in the Parish, including the Description or Names of the plots together with the State of Cultivation. It instances where there is no entry, but it is evident what the Land Usage is I have added the category surrounded with { Brace Brackets }. Not relative to the Tithe Apportionment as some of the Land Usage is not part of the charge regime, however {Residence), {Premises} and {Retail} etc are useful additions. There are approximately 220 Mansions, Houses, or Cottages etc, across the Parish.
The areas of each plot together with the Rentcharge amount in respect of both the Small and Great Tithe, for the Vicar and Impropriator.
Top Ten Landowners
Top Ten Landowners in Whiteparish from the Tithe Apportionment information
From this analysis of the plot level detail for the Parish of Whiteparish the Top Ten Landowners own 91% of the whole recorded area of the parish. Two of the Landowners were relations to the Nelson of The Battle of Trafalgar fame.
Horatio Nelson, 3rd Earl Nelson, (7 August 1823 – 25 February 1913), was 16 years 9 months 7 days at the recorded data of the survey, 14th May 1840, a Minor, hence the Guardians of ...
He was the son of Thomas Bolton (a nephew of Vice Admiral The 1st Viscount Nelson) by his wife Frances Elizabeth Eyre. On 28 February 1835 his father inherited the title Earl Nelson from William Nelson, 1st Earl Nelson and adopted the surname of Nelson. He died on 1 November that year, and his son Horatio succeeded to the title and the estate, Trafalgar House in Wiltshire, in the nearby parish of Downton. The Eyre Family were the owners of Brickworth Park according to the Turnpike Acts for the Whiteparish Romsey Southampton Road. The Dowager Countess Frances Elizabeth Nelson was recorded as being the Landowner as Brickworth Park.
The remainder are either titled or referred to as Esquire. Although not all of the Esquires are in the top ten.
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Tithe Apportionment - Millbrook
Tithe Apportionment - Parish of Millbrook, Hampshire
Note the reference to Depopulation and read more about it here. By 1530 the population of England and Wales had risen to around 3 million. At the end of the 17th century it was estimated the population of England and Wales was about 5 1/2 million. The population of Scotland was about 1 million. The population of London was about 600,000. London went on to become the biggest city in the world for a while. In the 19th century Britain became the world's first industrial society. It also became the first urban society. By 1851 more than half the population lived in towns. As our population approaches 70m it is interesting to think of depopulation efforts at 3 million! The maps of Millbrook clearly show the urbanisation of the countryside.
Following the Tithe Commutation Act 1836 Tithe Maps were produced which recorded both the Landowner and Occupier for most lands. From the Tithe Apportionments records it is apparent that on 4th March 1843 Lady Hewitt was both the Landowner and Occupier of Plot 875, Freemantle Estate, described as House Offices and Pleasure Grounds, with an area in statute measure 6,0,2, about 2.4 Hectares.
Nathaniel Newman Jefferys was both Landowner and Occupier of Plot 825 described as House Offices and Garden, an area of 2,2,24 imperial, on 4th March 1843. However, one plot does not show the full picture.
Using the Tithe Apportionment map of the Parish of Millbrook, Hampshire, as a base, I have colour washed some of the plot landowners. The Freemantle and Banister Estates, pale orange and brown respectively can be clearly seen. The landowners in 1843 where Lady Hewitt and Reverend William Fitzhugh. Shirley Park, owned by William Henry Roe, is in green. Blightmont Lodge, occupied by Lady Lisle, just north of Millbrook Road, and part of the larger Berrywood estate owned by Nathaniel Newman Jefferys is shown in a slightly darker blue than the light blue of the rest of the estate. It appears that Nathaniel Newman Jefferys has bought a large swath of the newly released Shirley Common land in the area of Shirley Warren. Clement Hoare & William Dunn seem to have also taken advantage of the inclosue of Shirley and Nutshalling Commons, as joint owners of plots coloured lime green. Roads such as Warren Avenue, Warren Crescent and Tremona Road have already been laid out for the impending urbanisation. However, the biggest landholding in the Parish, by a long way, is Sir John Barker Mill and various associates who together are landowners of the pink coloured plots, mainly farmland in 1843, but destined to be developed and absorbed as suburbs of Southampton.
Introduction and Conclusion
Introduction and Conclusion
Greenwood's Hampshire 1826 section 53
Moving into the current, the Church of England has a database of interesting statistics about all the Parishes in the country. Below is the Map which covers the original Millbrook Parish and shows the current Parishes of;
Millbrook: Holy Trinity
Freemantle: Christ Church (1851)
Shirley: St James (1836)
Maybush.
Click on the parish to bring up the statistics.
The Parish of Millbrook Tithe Map 1843 including Shirley, Freemantle and Four Posts, layered onto Google Earth Pro and Geolocated. Same base map as the coloured ownership map. Over 20 separate tiles or files to fit spherical base globe of Google Earth. All adjusted to best fit the projection, and align roads and as many details as possible. Below is just an image of the result. Google Earth Pro is desktop based so does not lend itself to sharing. However, using transparency of the layers I can locate buildings on the tithe map and see what is there now. I can also use the Lat and Lon and show on Google Maps to georeferenced individual buildings or plots.
The interactive version is created using a Project in Google Earth and can be seen here, The Parish of Millbrook Tithe Apportionment. Using the Tithe Map plotted on Google Earth Pro above and other maps, I have placed some of the Property names onto a Google Earth Project with an up to date backdrop. History mapped to now.
A screenshot as at March 2020. Work ongoing.
Notes
Notes
Extract from the British Newspaper Archive. Link to source but subscription required.
SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday, April 10. The Sale of Timber the New Inn, West JSr.d, by Air. C. Brooks, will not take place until Wednesday the 21st of April, 1830, instead of Thursday the 15th, as advertised in page 3. j N.B. good Dinner, Sfc. will be provided, gratis, and on the table at one o'clock. Married, on Thursday, at Eling, by tbe Rev. J. G. Phillips, MrThos.Couchman, coal merchant, to Ellen, eldest daughter of Capt. W. Gregson. Elm Lodge, Bursledon, formerly occupied by Mr Tyson, and since by Richard Trench, Esq. now fitting for a summer retreat by Wm. Moffat, Esq. ate of the firm of Williams and Co. bankers, Birchin-lane, London.—Col. F. Le Blanc has purchased Blackbrook House, between Fareham and Titehfield, and will shortly take up his permanent residence there. Several elegant villas are about to be erected on Shirley Common. Tht: overseers appointed for the parish of Eling, for tbe ensuing year, are—Jolin Taylor and John Anderson, Esqrs. Wm. Kimber, yeoman John Bull, coal merchant. Assistant overseer, J.Tiller.
Several elegant villas are about to be erected on Shirley Common.
Thought to be Plots 760 to 776 as shown on the Tithe Apportionment Map, in the Tithing of Hill and Sidford. Built on the Romsey Turnpike, later to become Shirley Road, the A3057. In the vicinity of the Rising Sun Public House, probably of the same date.
The Rising Sun public house in Shirley Road, now renamed The Brass Monkey. It opened in 1830, it's postal address was Shirley Common and it was a quiet country wayside inn. In this photo, it is called 'Rising Sun Hotel', J. Carter is the proprietor and Strong's of Romsey is the Brewery.
Transcription
Transcription
The Agreement is first transcribed into the Excel spreadsheet as part of the process of collating the data.
| APPORTIONMENT of the RENT-CHARGE in lieu of TITHES in the | Parish | of | Millbrook |
| in the | County | of | Southampton |
| Whereas an Agreement for COMMUTATION of TITHES in the | Parish | of | Millbrook |
| in the | County | of | Southampton |
| was, on the fourth Day of March in the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty three, | 4th March 1843 | ||
| confirmed by the Tithe Commissioners for England and Wales, of which Agreement, with the Schedules thereunto annexed, the following is a Copy :-- |
|
Articles of Agreement
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| for the Commutation of the Tithes of the Parish of Millbrook in the County of Southampton in pursuance of the Act for the Commutation of Tithes in England and Wales made executed at a Meeting duly called and holden in the said Parish and adjourned from time to time and holden by Adjournment on the thirty first day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty two By and Between the Several Persons Owners of Land within the said Parish by whom or by whose Agents |
| duly authorised in that behalf these presents are executed and the interest of which Land Owners in the said Parish is not less than two thirds of the Lands therein subject to Tithes of the one part |
| The Reverend William Joseph George Phillips |
| who as Rector of the said Parish of the said Parish is Owner of a portion of the Tithes as well Great as Small thereof arising from forty six acres two roods and one perch of Titheable Lands which are setforth in the Second Schedule hereunder written and are |
| situate and being in the Tithing of Hill and Sidford in the said parish and |
| Sir Charles Henry Rich |
| now of Francfort on Maine Baronet Owner of another portion of the Tithes consisting of all the Tithes as well Great as Small arising from all the titheable lands in the said Tithing of Hill and Sidford excepting only all the Tithes of the before mentioned forty six acres two roods and one perch of land and also excepting all the Tithes as well as Great as Small arising from the Tithable lands of the said Tyithing of Hill and Sidford which are setforth in |
| the third fourth fitth and sixth Schedules hereunder written and are therein particularly described and |
| Sir John Barker Mill |
| of Mottisfont Abbey in the said County of Southampton Baronet Owner of the remaining portion of the Tithes as well great as small of the said parish consisting of all the Tithes arising from the titheable lands of the said Tything of Hill and Sidford which are setforth in the third fourth fifth and sixth Schedules hereunder written and are therein particularly described of the other part |
| Whereas |
| the said |
| Sir John Barker Mill |
| is seized in possession of an Estate for life with remainder to his Children in tail of all the Tithes of the lands ??? ??? particularly specified and described in the said third schedule hereunder written and is also seized in possession of an Estate for life with remainder to his children in tail of and in the said lands |
| Now |
| he the said |
| Sir John Barker Mill |
| Doth hereby declare it to his Will and Intent certified by his signature and seal hereunder annexed that the said Tithes as well great as small of the said lands shall henceforth be absolutely merged and extinguished in the freehold and inheritance of the said Lands. |
| It is |
| hereby agreed that the sum of Five hundred and fifty pounds by way of Rent Charge subject to the provisions of the said Acts shall be paid to the said |
| William Joseph George Phillips as Rector |
| of the said Parish and to his Successors instead of all the tithes as well great as small and all moduses and compositions real and prescriptive and customary payments payable to the said Rector in respect of the tithable lands of the said Parish or the produce thereof (except the customary payment of the sum of Five pounds hereinafter mentioned) and also including the tithe of Glebe the rent charge in lieu of which it is hereby agreed shall be fixed at the sum of six shillings in respect of all the tithes as well great as small of all the glebe lands of the said Parish which Glebe land belongs to the said |
| William Joseph George Phillips |
| and consists of three roods and thirty three perches and which item it is hereby agreed shall be apportioned exclusively upon the said Glede lands |
| And it is |
| hereby further agreed that the annual sum of Two hundred and fifty six pounds ten shillings by way of rent charge subject as afordsaid and also charged with the payment thereout of the entire provision or stipend amounting to the sum of Four pounds annually to the Rector of the said Parish for the time being which sum hash been customarily paid by the Lay Impropriator of the tithes of the Tythings of Hill and Sidfoord in the said Parish shall be paid to the said |
| Sir Charles Henry Rich |
| and his assigns during his life and after his decease to the person or persons who for the time being shall be entitled to the same instead of all those tithes of which the said |
| Sir Charles Henry Rich |
| is Owner as aforesaid and all Moduses and Compositions real and prescriptive and customary payments payable to him in respect of any of the titheable lands of the said Parish or the produce thereof |
| And it is |
| hereby further agreed that the annual sum of Thirteen pounds seven shillings and six pence by way of rent charge subject to the provisions of the said Act shall be paid to the said |
| Sir John Barker Mill |
| and his assigns during his life and after his decease to the person or persons who for the time being shall be entitled to the same instead of all those tithes as well great as small and all moduses and compositions real and prescriptive and customary payments payable to him or them in respect of the titheable lands of the said Parish or the produce thereof which lands are respectively set forth and particularly described in the said fourth fith and sixth schedules to those Presents |
| And it is |
| hereby lastly agreed that the lands of the said Parish shall be discharged from the payment of tithes as well great as small except as is excepted by the said Act from the first day of October which shall happen next before the Confirmation of the Apportionment of the said rent charges and that the first payment of such rent charges shall be made or be recoverable on the expiration of Six calendar months from the time from which the said lands are discharged from the payment of tithes |
| In testimony |
| whereof the said parties to these Presents or their respective Agents thereunto duly authorized in their names and on their behalf have to these Presents subscribed and set their respective hands and seals. |
| The |
| whole Parish of Millbrook aforesaid contains two thousand nine hundred and forty seven acres two roods and eighteen perches of land statute measure |
| The |
| whole of which lands except those lands the tithes arising from which are hereinafter declared be excepted are subject to the payment of tithe |
| The |
| whole quantity of land within the said Parish which is at present cultivated as arable land is One thousand five hundred and fifty seven acres and twenty six perches Statute Measure |
| The |
| whole quantity of land within the said Parish which is at present cultivated as meadow or pasture land is Six hundred and thirty acres two roods and thirty eight perches statute measure |
| The |
| whole quantity of land within the said Parish at present forming the sites of houses and roads and consisting of homesteads wood lands and commons or wastes is Four hundred and eight acres three roods and thirty three perches statute measure |
| The |
| under mentioned lands of the said Parish set forth in the first schedule to these Presents are exempt form the payment of all tithes as well Great as Small discharged therefrom by presumption of law |
Dataset
The Dataset
The dataset comprises all of the transcribed information from the Tithe Apportionment and Maps together with additional information, including, inter alia, geolocation and census data. All held in an Excel Spreadsheet. The data is both analysed within the spreadsheet and formed into reports for export as csv files to populate the StoryMap data.
Primary Data
Primary Data
Pending population
Detailed Data - Summary
Detailed Data - Summary
Pending population
Detailed Data - Landowner and Occupier Summary
Detailed Data - Landowner and Occupier Summary
Pending population
Detailed Data - Schedule
Detailed Data - Schedule
Pending population
Land Usage
Graph of Land Usage in Whiteparish in 1842 from the Tithe Apportionment information.
Analysis of the land usage based on the Tithe Apportionment information, showing the primary use as arable at 61%, and secondary usages of woodland 18% and pasture 16%. Common and Furze land has been reduced to about 1%, presumably as a result of the Inclosure Acts, (Enclosure).
Land Ownership
Graph of Land Ownership in Whiteparish in 1842 from the Tithe Apportionment information.
Land Ownership is more widely distributed than in some parishes that I have looked at.
Scroll right to see the list of landowners associated to the graph.
Plot register
The Table with all the data of the Detailed Plot register.
This table has the Landowners and Occupiers of all the Plots in the Parish, including the Description or Names of the plots together with the State of Cultivation. It instances where there is no entry, but it is evident what the Land Usage is I have added the category surrounded with { Brace Brackets }. Not relative to the Tithe Apportionment as some of the Land Usage is not part of the charge regime, however {Residence), {Premises} and {Retail} etc are useful additions. There are approximately 220 Mansions, Houses, or Cottages etc, across the Parish.
The areas of each plot together with the Rentcharge amount in respect of both the Small and Great Tithe, for the Vicar and Impropriator.
Top Ten Landowners
Top Ten Landowners in Whiteparish from the Tithe Apportionment information
From this analysis of the plot level detail for the Parish of Whiteparish the Top Ten Landowners own 91% of the whole recorded area of the parish. Two of the Landowners were relations to the Nelson of The Battle of Trafalgar fame.
Horatio Nelson, 3rd Earl Nelson, (7 August 1823 – 25 February 1913), was 16 years 9 months 7 days at the recorded data of the survey, 14th May 1840, a Minor, hence the Guardians of ...
He was the son of Thomas Bolton (a nephew of Vice Admiral The 1st Viscount Nelson) by his wife Frances Elizabeth Eyre. On 28 February 1835 his father inherited the title Earl Nelson from William Nelson, 1st Earl Nelson and adopted the surname of Nelson. He died on 1 November that year, and his son Horatio succeeded to the title and the estate, Trafalgar House in Wiltshire, in the nearby parish of Downton. The Eyre Family were the owners of Brickworth Park according to the Turnpike Acts for the Whiteparish Romsey Southampton Road. The Dowager Countess Frances Elizabeth Nelson was recorded as being the Landowner as Brickworth Park.
The remainder are either titled or referred to as Esquire. Although not all of the Esquires are in the top ten.
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Tithe Apportionment - Whiteparish
Tithe Apportionment - Parish of Whiteparish, Wiltshire
There is a possibility that some of my ancestors lived there and migrated from there.
That requires further investigations.
This is part of those investigations. There are three main streams, one is via ESRI ArcGIS StoryMap and another other a spreadsheet based database. The third is the normal family tree, both in Ancestry and TNG. The TNG list of the people of Whiteparish currently starts with Elizabeth born in 1565.
A child with the surname Hurst was born in 1564, and Edith Hurst was born in 1566, both in Whiteparish. The question of are these people related remains un-answered at the moment.
Intorduction and Conclusion
Story Map and Graphical Display of data
The StoryMap is below, and the spreadsheet full of interesting records below that. The Story Map Tithe Apportionment Parish of Whiteparish can also be open in a new window by clicking on the link.
Depending on your computer and your internet connection you may have to be a little patient and allow the StoryMap time to load the maps and images.
Notes
Transcription
Dataset
The Dataset
The dataset comprises all of the transcribed information from the Tithe Apportionment and Maps together with additional information, including, inter alia, geolocation and census data. All held in an Excel Spreadsheet. The data is both analysed within the spreadsheet and formed into reports for export as csv files to populate the StoryMap data.
Primary Data
Primary Data
The primary data for this parish Tithe Apportionment pulled together as a simple reference document
Detailed Data - Summary
Detailed Data - Summary
Pending population
Detailed Data - Landowner and Occupier Summary
Detailed Data - Landowner and Occupier Summary
Pending population
Detailed Data - Schedule
Detailed Data - Schedule
Pending population
Spare
Pending population
Land Usage
Graph of Land Usage in Whiteparish in 1842 from the Tithe Apportionment information.
Analysis of the land usage based on the Tithe Apportionment information, showing the primary use as arable at 61%, and secondary usages of woodland 18% and pasture 16%. Common and Furze land has been reduced to about 1%, presumably as a result of the Inclosure Acts, (Enclosure).
Land Ownership
Graph of Land Ownership in Whiteparish in 1842 from the Tithe Apportionment information.
Land Ownership is more widely distributed than in some parishes that I have looked at.
Scroll right to see the list of landowners associated to the graph.
Plot register
The Table with all the data of the Detailed Plot register.
This table has the Landowners and Occupiers of all the Plots in the Parish, including the Description or Names of the plots together with the State of Cultivation. It instances where there is no entry, but it is evident what the Land Usage is I have added the category surrounded with { Brace Brackets }. Not relative to the Tithe Apportionment as some of the Land Usage is not part of the charge regime, however {Residence), {Premises} and {Retail} etc are useful additions. There are approximately 220 Mansions, Houses, or Cottages etc, across the Parish.
The areas of each plot together with the Rentcharge amount in respect of both the Small and Great Tithe, for the Vicar and Impropriator.
Top Ten Landowners
Top Ten Landowners in Whiteparish from the Tithe Apportionment information
From this analysis of the plot level detail for the Parish of Whiteparish the Top Ten Landowners own 91% of the whole recorded area of the parish. Two of the Landowners were relations to the Nelson of The Battle of Trafalgar fame.
Horatio Nelson, 3rd Earl Nelson, (7 August 1823 – 25 February 1913), was 16 years 9 months 7 days at the recorded data of the survey, 14th May 1840, a Minor, hence the Guardians of ...
He was the son of Thomas Bolton (a nephew of Vice Admiral The 1st Viscount Nelson) by his wife Frances Elizabeth Eyre. On 28 February 1835 his father inherited the title Earl Nelson from William Nelson, 1st Earl Nelson and adopted the surname of Nelson. He died on 1 November that year, and his son Horatio succeeded to the title and the estate, Trafalgar House in Wiltshire, in the nearby parish of Downton. The Eyre Family were the owners of Brickworth Park according to the Turnpike Acts for the Whiteparish Romsey Southampton Road. The Dowager Countess Frances Elizabeth Nelson was recorded as being the Landowner as Brickworth Park.
The remainder are either titled or referred to as Esquire. Although not all of the Esquires are in the top ten.
more later
Tithe Apportionment - Nursling
Tithe Apportionment - Parish of Nursling, Hampshire
Part of a Study of the Parish of Nursling in the County of Hampshire, or sometime known as the County of Southamptonshire.
The details are behind the dropdowns.
Introduction & Conclusion
Introduction
For details about what Tithes where, how they came about, and the Tithe Commutation Act that gave us all this wonderful information read the article titled Tithe Commutation Act 1836.
The Award of Rent-charge in lieu of Tithes in the Parish of Nursling in the County of Southampton. Hampshire variously known as the County of Southampton, Southamptonshire, and abbreviated to Hants.
This is the fourth iteration of Tithe Apportionment articles, and the first of the new templated concept.
Details of the Parish of Nursling are included in the One Place Study about Nursling
StoryMap and Graphical Display of Data
Pending population
Notes
Notes and Stories
William Wakeford Attree
From the 'Know all Men' paragraph, the Assistant Tithe Commissioner responsible for Nursling was William Wakeford Attree of the Middle Temple Barrister at Law. He was also responsible for the Tithe Commutation for the Parish of Freefolk in the County of Southampton, and possibly others.
I found an article in The National Archives which has some information about William Wakeford Attree and his family, extract below. The Atrree family do not live in Nursling but have an involvement by virtue of the Tithe Award.
THE HISTORY OF HOWLETT & CLARKE by Antony Dale
Howlett & Clarke is not only the oldest firm of Solicitors in Brighton but the only one that can be traced back to the eighteenth century. Its first known principal or partner was William Attree. He came of an old established Ditchling family. His grand-father, William Attree, was a brick-layer there. The latter died in 1767 but left a Will, so he must have been a man of some education. This William Attree's son, John Attree, was a prosperous malster. In 1745 John Attree married at Newtimber Susannah, daughter of Henry Scrase of Withdean, Patcham. He died on the 9th June 1772 and is buried in a table-tomb in Ditchling church-yard to the north of the church
John and Susannah Attree had one daughter and four sons
William Attree was the second of these sons and was born in 1749. In 1765 he was articled for 5 years to an attorney in Lewes named Henry Burtenshaw. He was admitted to the roll of solicitors before 1775. But this must have been at least two years earlier, as in 1773, when the Brighton Town Commissioners were first set up to pave and light the streets and to erect groynes in front of the town, he became their first Clerk and also Treasurer. The Commissioners' minutes have not survived from before 1789, but Bishops' "Brighton in the Olden Time" quotes an advertisement by William Attree as Clerk to the Commissioners of 1st August 1773, so he must have held this office since the initiation of the Commission. His salary as such in 1789 was £4-10-0 a year
He was also Clerk to the Brighton Vestry. The date when he was appointed to that office is unknown because again the minutes of the Vestry have not survived from before 1790. He may well have been in office for some time before that date and perhaps was even appointed Clerk to the Commissioners in 1773 because he was already Clerk to the Vestry. His salary as Clerk to the Vestry was £10-10-0 a year in 1790 and £30-0-0 a year in 1804
It is just possible that William Attree's legal connection may extend further back than this. His mother's first cousin, Charles Scrase, was also an attorney. He was born in 1709 and was Town Clerk of Seaford in 1733. In 1771 Scrase purchased a moiety of the manor of Brighton and lived in the Manor House there which was on the site of Royal York Buildings in Old Steine. Scrase was also the solicitor of Dr Johnson's friend, Hester Thrale, later Mrs Piozzi. She stayed with him at the Manor House and subsequently bought a house of her own in Brighton in West Street. William Attree acted as steward of the Manor for Scrase from 1778 onwards. So it is possible that he had been articled to Scrase. The latter died in 1791
When William Attree established his practice in Brighton, he built himself an office and a house where he also lived. In 1775 he bought a site in Ship Street for £50. On this he built No. 8 Ship Street and probably the adjoining house, No. 9. No. 8 was his residence and office combined until his death and after that the residence and office of his son until 1830. William Attree mortgaged the building for £2,000 in 1803, and this loan was not finally paid off by his son until 1824. The house was rebuilt in its present form, but still with a facade of Georgian character, at some time between 1830 and 1863. But continuity has been preserved as the building is still the office of Howlett & Clarke today
In or before 1800 there were few attorneys in Brighton, so William Attree easily acquired a near monopoly of the best legal work in the town. Amongst his fashionable clients was the Prince of Wales. When the Prince was acquiring land to enlarge the grounds of his Brighton house, he employed Attree in the various purchases which this involved. Attree's position will have been of benefit to both parties when, in 1803, the Prince sought the agreement of the Town Commisioners to divert the north end of Great East Street, as East Street was then called, which ran almost directly under his windows, and to give the town instead a piece of land further west which, in 1806, became New Road
The above is not really relevant to the Parish of Nursling but does give some background to the next extract where William Wakeford Attree, the Assistant Tithe Commissioner for Nursling and a number of other Hampshire Parishes.
Thomas Attree married about 1805. His wife's Christian names were Elizabeth Austin. They had a son and a daughter. The son, William Wakeford Attree, was born in 1806. He followed his father into the legal profession, but became a barrister in the Middle Temple. He was Recorder of Rye, Hastings and Seaford. He died in his father's life-time and at his father's Brighton house on the 28th January 1862 aged 56. He was buried in Ditchling church-yard
In his memory his father endowed a scholarship at Brighton College. To provide the money for this he conveyed to the Trustees of the College No 9 Ship Street adjoining his office and, if this Trust was invalidated by his death within 6 months of the date of gift, he substituted in his Will a bequest to the College of £1,000. Thomas Attree's daughter, Elizabeth Wakeford Attree, died when quite young. Stained glass windows in memory of both the son and daughter were inserted in the north wall of the nave of Ditchling Church in 1863.
Transcription
Transcription of Agreement
APPORTIONMENT; of the RENT-CHARGE in lieu of TITHES in the Parish of Nursling in the County of Southampton
Whereas AN AWARD of RENT-CHARGE in lieu of TITHES in the Parish of Nursling in the County of Southampton was, on the twenty second Day of January in the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty six confirmed by the Tithe Commissioners for England and Wales, of which Award with the Schedule therein comprised, the following is a Copy :---
Know All Men by these Presents That I William Wakeford Attree of the Middle Temple Barrister at Law having been duly appointed and sworn an Assistant Tithe Commissioner according to the provisions of the Act for the Commutation of Tithes in England and Wales and having been also duly appointed to ascertain and Award the total sum to be paid by way of Rent Charge instead of the Tithes of the Parish of Nursling in the County of Southampton.
Do hereby Award as follows that is to say.
Whereas I have held divers Meetings in the said Parish touching the matter aforesaid of which Meetings due Notice was given for the information of the Land owners and Tithe owner of the said Parish.
And Whereas I have duly considered all the allegations and proofs tendered to me by all parties interested and have myself made all inquiries touching the premised subject which appeared to me to be necessary.
And Whereas I find that the estimated Quantity in Statute measure of all the Lands of the said Parish which are subject to payment of Tithes amounts to one thousand nine hundred and ninety acres three roods and twenty one perches which are cultivated as follows that is to say.
One thousand and forty seven acres and sixteen perches as Arable Land
Four hundred and six acres three roods and thirty perches as Meadow or Pasture.
One hundred and thirty six acres three roods and five perches as Water Meadow
Three hundred and eighty three acres three roods and eighteen perches as Woodland.
And Four acres and thirty two perches are Homesteads and the Sites of Buildings.
And Whereas I find that the Glebe Lands belonging to the Rector of the said Parish amounting by estimation to Twelve acres statute measure is by prescription absolutely exempt from the render of all Tithes.
And Whereas I find that all the Lands of the said Parish are save as aforesaid subject to payment of all manner of Tithes in Kind.
And Whereas in estimating the clear annual value of the said Tithes I have taken into account the rates and assessments paid in respect of such Tithes during the seven years of average prescribed by the said Act.
And Whereas due Notice was was given to me in the manner prescribed by the said Act that the clear average value of the Rectoral Tithes of the said Parish during the said seven years of average would not fairly represent the sum which ought to be the basis of a permanent commutation of the said Tithes.
And Whereas I have taken into consideration all the allegations and proofs tendered to me touching the matter of the said Notice before awarding the Rent charge hereinafter mentioned.
And Whereas I find that the Rector of the said Parish for the time being is entitled to all the Tithes thereof.
Now Know Ye that I the said William Wakeford Attree do hereby Award that the Annual sum of Five hundred and fifty Pounds by way of Rent Charge subject to the provisions of the said Act shall from the first day of October next preceding the confirmation of the Apportionment of the said Rent Charge be paid to the Rector of the said Parish for the time being instead of all the Tithes arising from all the Lands of the said Parish except the Glebe Lands.
And I do hereby Award and direct that no part of the said Rent Charge shall be apportioned on any Holdings of less extent than thirty five perches.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this second day of January in the year One thousand eight hundred and forty six.
Signed
Wm Wakeford Attree
Now I Charles Fielder
of the Parish of Sparsholt near Winchester in the County of Southampton
having been duly appointed Valuer to apportion the total Sum awarded to be paid by way of Rent Charge in lieu of Tithes, amongst the several Lands of the said Parish of Nursling
Do HEREBY apportion the Rent Charge as follows:--
GROSS RENT CHARGE payable to the Titheowner in lieu of tithes for the Parish of Nursling in the County of Southampton
Five Hundred and Fifty Pounds
| Price per Bushel. | Bushels and Decimal Parts. | |||
| s. | d. | |||
| Wheat | 7 | 01/4 | 522, 25519 | |
| Barley | 3 | 111/2 | 926, 31579 | |
| Oats | 2 | 0 | 1333, 33333 | |
The above Transcription can be seen in plain text on the pdf file linked below, which opens in a new window.
Transcription Tithe Agreement - Nursling.pdf94.57 KB07/03/2022
Transcription of the Schedule
The schedule is transcribed directly into the Dataset by double entry typing, and is therefore not repeated here.
Transcription of the Summary
The Summary is transcribed directly into the Dataset by double entry typing, and is therefore not repeated here.
Transcription of the Ratification
We the undersigned Tithe Commissioners for England and Wales do hereby confirm the within written Apportionment.
In testimony whereof we have hereunto subscribed our respective names and caused out official seal to be affixed this thirteenth day of September in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty six.
The Tithe Commissioners whose signatures appear on the ratification are;-
William Blamire (chairman)
Thomas Wentworth Buller
At a later time than the original Tithe Commutation, the Apportionment was altered and attached.
Transcription of the Later Alteration
ALTERED APPORTIONMENT OF TITHE RENT CHARGE UNDER THE TITHE ACTS, 1836 TO 1891
WHEREAS certain Rentcharges in lieu of Tithes have been apportioned under the Tithe Acts upon certain lands in the Parish of Nursling in the County of Southampton as set forth in the First Schedule hereof
AND WHEREAS application has been duly made to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries to alter the apportionment of the said Rentcharges.
NOW the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, in pursuance of the powers vested in them by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries Acts, 1889 to 1909, and the said Tithe Acts, 1836 to 1891, DO HEREBY ALTER the apportionment of the said Rentcharges in the manner and proportions mentioned in the Second Schedule hereof.
IN WITNESS AND CONFIRMATION whereof the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries have hereunto set their Official Seal this nineteenth day of July nineteen hundred and fifteen.
Transcription of the Amended First Schedule
The amended first schedule is transcribed directly into the Dataset by double entry typing, and is therefore not repeated here.
Transcription of the Amended Second Schedule
The amended second schedule is transcribed directly into the Dataset by double entry typing, and is therefore not repeated here.
Dataset
The Dataset
The dataset comprises all of the transcribed information from the Tithe Apportionment and Maps together with additional information, including, inter alia, geolocation and census data. All held in an Excel Spreadsheet. The data is both analysed within the spreadsheet and formed into reports for export as csv files to populate the StoryMap data.
Primary Data
Primary Data
Below is the first page of the spreadsheet containing the Nursling Tithe Dataset. It shows the Primary or key facts pertaining to the Parish of Nursling.
It is a live document, so if the dataset changes, so does this.
Detailed Data - Summary
Detailed Data - Summary
The Summary in the Tithe Apportionment paperwork often appears after the Schedule, and of which it is, as the title suggests, the summary, by landowner and occupier. It includes details of the area together with both the small and great Tithe.
The transcription is below as an extract of the spreadsheet containing the dataset.
Out of this first pass of information, with the addition of gender based on the names of the people, I have generated some graphs within the spreadsheet. They are live and interactive on the spreadsheet, but here they are screenshots.
As well as the addition of gender, there are some which are general neutral, such as Assignees, which includes Executors, Trustees and the like, Corporate, including the Church, and Public etc, which also includes roads, where measured.
Land Area - Acres
You can see from the Pie chart that Sir John Barker Mill is by far the largest single landowner with 74%. However, the graph does not show much other land he owns but leases to others, with the lessees recorded in the landowners column.
The Pie chart above shows the 1581.85 acres not leased out but owned by Sir John Barker Mill together with a further 141.69 acres, approximately 20%.. 
Altogether he therefore owns about 94% of the parish. The 19% of land where Sir John Barker Mill is lessor on the lower pie chart but 20% on the one above is just the way the numbers round.
Lord Viscount Palmerston, the owner of The Broadlands Estate between Nursling and Romsey, is the only other Landowner, but even that, as both Landowner and Lessee, only equates to less than 5% of the total area.
Looking at the gender split, 89% of the land is attributed to males as Landowners / Lessees with just 9% attributed to females. The pie chart above represents that 9%, with Mary Ann King clearly the leader with 114 acres, 59%. There are 9 Widows amongst the 15 women listed as Landowners / Lessees. Just known as widow of husband.
I recognise that in terms of gender 89% plus 9% does not equate to 100%. That is therefore 2% other.
Strictly speaking, this is not consistent with the other graphs as a large proportion of the other 2% is Landowner Sir John Barker Mill, so that would add another 1% of the whole to the male camp above. However, that land is occupied by Rice and Coward, who I have attributed to Corporate. It could be Mr Rice and Mr Coward, but that would normally be John Rice and another, if Mr Rice was a John. Having attributed Rice and Coward to corporate It thought it better to bring it out here for clarity.
Rentcharge - Vicar
The is no value to the Vicar in the Tithe Apportionment for the Parish of Nursling
Rentcharge - Rector
Not surprisingly, Sir John Barker Mill, being the biggest landowner, results in having the biggest proportion of Rentcharge. He also has further lands where most of the list are his lessees. Of the total rentcharge for the Parish of Nursling of £550 Sir John Barker Mill is directly responsible for approximately £406. In 2020, the relative value of £406 4s 3d from 1846 ranges from £40,220.00 to £1,467,000.00. With a relative income value of that income or wealth is £464,600.00.
We know from the Tithe Apportionment for the Parish of Millbrook that Sir John Barker Mill has substantial holdings in that parish as well as almost the whole of Nursling. In The Genealogist website, searching for Landowner and Occupier (mainly Tithe) records, for John Barker (surname) Mill in the Parish of (keyword) Nursling resulted in 497 records. Remove the keyword Nursling and replace it with Landowner, that number goes up to 2,684 results. Some of both these numbers could still be double entries, being in some instances both Landowner and Occupier. Of those results 2,113 were in Hampshire
Other Parishes it that list include, in the County of Hampshire; Broughton (6), East Dean (59), Mottisfont (530), Longstock (174), Kingsomborne and Little Sombourne (King's Somborne) (87), Stockbridge (2), Eling (537), Millbrook (255) and Nursling (461), and Whiteparish (10) in the County of Wiltshire. The total of the Hampshire identified parishes is 2111 results, so either 2 in another parish or just an anomaly.
| Parish | Count of search results | Quantity | Rentcharge V | Rentcharge R | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | R | P | £ | s | d | £ | s | d | ||
| Broughton | 6 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | |||
| East Dean | 59 | 601 | 1 | 5 | 101 | 14 | 3 | |||
| Eling | 537 | 2355 | 1 | 33 | 86 | 7 | 06 | 179 | 19 | 0 |
| Kingsomborne and Little Sombourne (King's Somborne) | 87 | 732 | 1 | 24 | 62 | 16 | 5 | 16 | 19 | 10 |
| Longstock | 174 | 820 | 3 | 2 | 100 | 12 | 2 | 136 | 15 | 1 |
| Millbrook | 255 | 820 | 1 | 37 | 303 | 12 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 9 |
| Mottisfont | 530 | 1737 | 3 | 15 | 295 | 5 | 0 | |||
| Nursling | 461 | 2076 | 2 | 7 | 522 | 1 | 8 | |||
| Stockbridge | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 11 | ||||
| Whiteparish | 10 | 33 | 2 | 29 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 8 |
| Total (10) | 2121 | 9187 | 3 | 38 | 553 | 14 | 10 | 1263 | 17 | 10 |
| 3718 Hectares | £ 553.74 | £ 1263.90 | ||||||||
This is just a quick collection with none of the checks for accuracy that are done for specific parishes. Even so, it does show Sir John Barker Mill to be a very significant land owner with about 9000 acres spread over 9 parishes in Hampshire and one parish in Wiltshire. Eling is complicated as it has multiple Impropriators and therefore multiple entries for Sir John Barker Mill in both the Schedule and in the Summary.
Detailed Data - Landowner and Occupier Summary
Detailed Data - Summary
Detailed Summary - Schedule
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Land Usage
Graph of Land Usage in Whiteparish in 1842 from the Tithe Apportionment information.
Analysis of the land usage based on the Tithe Apportionment information, showing the primary use as arable at 61%, and secondary usages of woodland 18% and pasture 16%. Common and Furze land has been reduced to about 1%, presumably as a result of the Inclosure Acts, (Enclosure).
Land Ownership
Graph of Land Ownership in Whiteparish in 1842 from the Tithe Apportionment information.
Land Ownership is more widely distributed than in some parishes that I have looked at.
Scroll right to see the list of landowners associated to the graph.
Plot register
The Table with all the data of the Detailed Plot register.
This table has the Landowners and Occupiers of all the Plots in the Parish, including the Description or Names of the plots together with the State of Cultivation. It instances where there is no entry, but it is evident what the Land Usage is I have added the category surrounded with { Brace Brackets }. Not relative to the Tithe Apportionment as some of the Land Usage is not part of the charge regime, however {Residence), {Premises} and {Retail} etc are useful additions. There are approximately 220 Mansions, Houses, or Cottages etc, across the Parish.
The areas of each plot together with the Rentcharge amount in respect of both the Small and Great Tithe, for the Vicar and Impropriator.
Top Ten Landowners
Top Ten Landowners in Whiteparish from the Tithe Apportionment information
From this analysis of the plot level detail for the Parish of Whiteparish the Top Ten Landowners own 91% of the whole recorded area of the parish. Two of the Landowners were relations to the Nelson of The Battle of Trafalgar fame.
Horatio Nelson, 3rd Earl Nelson, (7 August 1823 – 25 February 1913), was 16 years 9 months 7 days at the recorded data of the survey, 14th May 1840, a Minor, hence the Guardians of ...
He was the son of Thomas Bolton (a nephew of Vice Admiral The 1st Viscount Nelson) by his wife Frances Elizabeth Eyre. On 28 February 1835 his father inherited the title Earl Nelson from William Nelson, 1st Earl Nelson and adopted the surname of Nelson. He died on 1 November that year, and his son Horatio succeeded to the title and the estate, Trafalgar House in Wiltshire, in the nearby parish of Downton. The Eyre Family were the owners of Brickworth Park according to the Turnpike Acts for the Whiteparish Romsey Southampton Road. The Dowager Countess Frances Elizabeth Nelson was recorded as being the Landowner as Brickworth Park.
The remainder are either titled or referred to as Esquire. Although not all of the Esquires are in the top ten.
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Tithe Apportionment - Eling
Eling is only just started, as a copy o Nursling initially.
Tithe Apportionment - Parish of Eling, Hampshire
Part of a Study of the Parish of Eling in the County of Hampshire, or sometime known as the County of Southamptonshire.
Do not read beyond here as it is currently only a copy of the Nursling Article
The details are behind the dropdowns.
Introduction & Conclusion
Introduction
For details about what Tithes where, how they came about, and the Tithe Commutation Act that gave us all this wonderful information read the article titled Tithe Commutation Act 1836.
The Award of Rent-charge in lieu of Tithes in the Parish of Eling in the County of Southampton. Hampshire variously known as the County of Southampton, Southamptonshire, and abbreviated to Hants.
This is the fifth iteration of Tithe Apportionment articles, and the second of the new templated concept. Others are slowly being converted to this template.
Details of the Parish of Eling are included in the One Place Study about Eling
StoryMap and Graphical Display of Data
Pending population
Notes
Notes and Stories
William Wakeford Attree
From the 'Know all Men' paragraph, the Assistant Tithe Commissioner responsible for Nursling was William Wakeford Attree of the Middle Temple Barrister at Law. He was also responsible for the Tithe Commutation for the Parish of Freefolk in the County of Southampton, and possibly others.
I found an article in The National Archives which has some information about William Wakeford Attree and his family, extract below. The Atrree family do not live in Nursling but have an involvement by virtue of the Tithe Award.
THE HISTORY OF HOWLETT & CLARKE by Antony Dale
Howlett & Clarke is not only the oldest firm of Solicitors in Brighton but the only one that can be traced back to the eighteenth century. Its first known principal or partner was William Attree. He came of an old established Ditchling family. His grand-father, William Attree, was a brick-layer there. The latter died in 1767 but left a Will, so he must have been a man of some education. This William Attree's son, John Attree, was a prosperous malster. In 1745 John Attree married at Newtimber Susannah, daughter of Henry Scrase of Withdean, Patcham. He died on the 9th June 1772 and is buried in a table-tomb in Ditchling church-yard to the north of the church
John and Susannah Attree had one daughter and four sons
William Attree was the second of these sons and was born in 1749. In 1765 he was articled for 5 years to an attorney in Lewes named Henry Burtenshaw. He was admitted to the roll of solicitors before 1775. But this must have been at least two years earlier, as in 1773, when the Brighton Town Commissioners were first set up to pave and light the streets and to erect groynes in front of the town, he became their first Clerk and also Treasurer. The Commissioners' minutes have not survived from before 1789, but Bishops' "Brighton in the Olden Time" quotes an advertisement by William Attree as Clerk to the Commissioners of 1st August 1773, so he must have held this office since the initiation of the Commission. His salary as such in 1789 was £4-10-0 a year
He was also Clerk to the Brighton Vestry. The date when he was appointed to that office is unknown because again the minutes of the Vestry have not survived from before 1790. He may well have been in office for some time before that date and perhaps was even appointed Clerk to the Commissioners in 1773 because he was already Clerk to the Vestry. His salary as Clerk to the Vestry was £10-10-0 a year in 1790 and £30-0-0 a year in 1804
It is just possible that William Attree's legal connection may extend further back than this. His mother's first cousin, Charles Scrase, was also an attorney. He was born in 1709 and was Town Clerk of Seaford in 1733. In 1771 Scrase purchased a moiety of the manor of Brighton and lived in the Manor House there which was on the site of Royal York Buildings in Old Steine. Scrase was also the solicitor of Dr Johnson's friend, Hester Thrale, later Mrs Piozzi. She stayed with him at the Manor House and subsequently bought a house of her own in Brighton in West Street. William Attree acted as steward of the Manor for Scrase from 1778 onwards. So it is possible that he had been articled to Scrase. The latter died in 1791
When William Attree established his practice in Brighton, he built himself an office and a house where he also lived. In 1775 he bought a site in Ship Street for £50. On this he built No. 8 Ship Street and probably the adjoining house, No. 9. No. 8 was his residence and office combined until his death and after that the residence and office of his son until 1830. William Attree mortgaged the building for £2,000 in 1803, and this loan was not finally paid off by his son until 1824. The house was rebuilt in its present form, but still with a facade of Georgian character, at some time between 1830 and 1863. But continuity has been preserved as the building is still the office of Howlett & Clarke today
In or before 1800 there were few attorneys in Brighton, so William Attree easily acquired a near monopoly of the best legal work in the town. Amongst his fashionable clients was the Prince of Wales. When the Prince was acquiring land to enlarge the grounds of his Brighton house, he employed Attree in the various purchases which this involved. Attree's position will have been of benefit to both parties when, in 1803, the Prince sought the agreement of the Town Commisioners to divert the north end of Great East Street, as East Street was then called, which ran almost directly under his windows, and to give the town instead a piece of land further west which, in 1806, became New Road
The above is not really relevant to the Parish of Nursling but does give some background to the next extract where William Wakeford Attree, the Assistant Tithe Commissioner for Nursling and a number of other Hampshire Parishes.
Thomas Attree married about 1805. His wife's Christian names were Elizabeth Austin. They had a son and a daughter. The son, William Wakeford Attree, was born in 1806. He followed his father into the legal profession, but became a barrister in the Middle Temple. He was Recorder of Rye, Hastings and Seaford. He died in his father's life-time and at his father's Brighton house on the 28th January 1862 aged 56. He was buried in Ditchling church-yard
In his memory his father endowed a scholarship at Brighton College. To provide the money for this he conveyed to the Trustees of the College No 9 Ship Street adjoining his office and, if this Trust was invalidated by his death within 6 months of the date of gift, he substituted in his Will a bequest to the College of £1,000. Thomas Attree's daughter, Elizabeth Wakeford Attree, died when quite young. Stained glass windows in memory of both the son and daughter were inserted in the north wall of the nave of Ditchling Church in 1863.
Transcription
Transcription of Agreement
APPORTIONMENT; of the RENT-CHARGE in lieu of TITHES in the Parish of Eling in the County of Southampton
Whereas AN AWARD of RENT-CHARGE in lieu of TITHES in the Parish of Eling in the County of Southampton was, on the twelfth Day of June in the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty three, confirmed by the Tithe Commissioners for England and Wales, of which Award with the Schedule therein comprised, the following is a Copy :---
Know All Men by these Presents That I Thomas James Tatham of Bedford Place Russell Square London Land Agent having been duly appointed and sworn an Assistant Tithe Commissioner according to the provisions of the Act for the Commutation of Tithes in England and Wales and having been also duly appointed to ascertain and award the sums to be paid by way of Rent charges instead of the tithes of the parish of Eling in the County of Southampton.
Do hereby award as follows that is to say.
Whereas I have held divers meetings in the said parish touching the matter aforesaid of which meetings due notice was given for the information of the Land Owners and Tithe Owners of the said Parish.
And Whereas I have duly considered all the allegations and proofs tendered to me by all parties interested and have myself made all inquiries touching the premised subject which appeared to me to be necessary.
And Whereas I find that certain enclosed lands of the said parish containing by estimation in Statute measure Thirty seven acres two roods and twenty perches of which lands Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria in right of the Crown is owner and the present Occupier are by prescription or other lawful means absolutely exempt from payment of all tithes both great and small.
And Whereas I find that all the Lands of the said Parish which are now cultivated as wood land are also by prescription or other lawful means absolutely exempt from payment of all tithes which said lands contain by estimation in Statute Measure Three thousand and ninety seven acres and fourteen perches.
subject to payment of Tithes amounts to one thousand nine hundred and ninety acres three roods and twenty one perches which are cultivated as follows that is to say.
One thousand and forty seven acres and sixteen perches as Arable Land
Four hundred and six acres three roods and thirty perches as Meadow or Pasture.
One hundred and thirty six acres three roods and five perches as Water Meadow
Three hundred and eighty three acres three roods and eighteen perches as Woodland.
And Four acres and thirty two perches are Homesteads and the Sites of Buildings.
And Whereas I find that the Glebe Lands belonging to the Rector of the said Parish amounting by estimation to Twelve acres statute measure is by prescription absolutely exempt from the render of all Tithes.
And Whereas I find that all the Lands of the said Parish are save as aforesaid subject to payment of all manner of Tithes in Kind.
And Whereas in estimating the clear annual value of the said Tithes I have taken into account the rates and assessments paid in respect of such Tithes during the seven years of average prescribed by the said Act.
And Whereas due Notice was was given to me in the manner prescribed by the said Act that the clear average value of the Rectoral Tithes of the said Parish during the said seven years of average would not fairly represent the sum which ought to be the basis of a permanent commutation of the said Tithes.
And Whereas I have taken into consideration all the allegations and proofs tendered to me touching the matter of the said Notice before awarding the Rent charge hereinafter mentioned.
And Whereas I find that the Rector of the said Parish for the time being is entitled to all the Tithes thereof.
Now Know Ye that I the said William Wakeford Attree do hereby Award that the Annual sum of Five hundred and fifty Pounds by way of Rent Charge subject to the provisions of the said Act shall from the first day of October next preceding the confirmation of the Apportionment of the said Rent Charge be paid to the Rector of the said Parish for the time being instead of all the Tithes arising from all the Lands of the said Parish except the Glebe Lands.
And I do hereby Award and direct that no part of the said Rent Charge shall be apportioned on any Holdings of less extent than thirty five perches.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this second day of January in the year One thousand eight hundred and forty six.
Signed
Wm Wakeford Attree
Now I Charles Fielder
of the Parish of Sparsholt near Winchester in the County of Southampton
having been duly appointed Valuer to apportion the total Sum awarded to be paid by way of Rent Charge in lieu of Tithes, amongst the several Lands of the said Parish of Nursling
Do HEREBY apportion the Rent Charge as follows:--
GROSS RENT CHARGE payable to the Titheowner in lieu of tithes for the Parish of Nursling in the County of Southampton
Five Hundred and Fifty Pounds
| Price per Bushel. | Bushels and Decimal Parts. | |||
| s. | d. | |||
| Wheat | 7 | 01/4 | 522, 25519 | |
| Barley | 3 | 111/2 | 926, 31579 | |
| Oats | 2 | 0 | 1333, 33333 | |
The above Transcription can be seen in plain text on the pdf file linked below, which opens in a new window.
Transcription Tithe Agreement - Nursling.pdf94.57 KB07/03/2022
Transcription of the Schedule
The schedule is transcribed directly into the Dataset by double entry typing, and is therefore not repeated here.
Transcription of the Summary
The Summary is transcribed directly into the Dataset by double entry typing, and is therefore not repeated here.
Transcription of the Ratification
We the undersigned Tithe Commissioners for England and Wales do hereby confirm the within written Apportionment.
In testimony whereof we have hereunto subscribed our respective names and caused out official seal to be affixed this thirteenth day of September in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty six.
The Tithe Commissioners whose signatures appear on the ratification are;-
William Blamire (chairman)
Thomas Wentworth Buller
At a later time than the original Tithe Commutation, the Apportionment was altered and attached.
Transcription of the Later Alteration
ALTERED APPORTIONMENT OF TITHE RENT CHARGE UNDER THE TITHE ACTS, 1836 TO 1891
WHEREAS certain Rentcharges in lieu of Tithes have been apportioned under the Tithe Acts upon certain lands in the Parish of Nursling in the County of Southampton as set forth in the First Schedule hereof
AND WHEREAS application has been duly made to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries to alter the apportionment of the said Rentcharges.
NOW the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, in pursuance of the powers vested in them by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries Acts, 1889 to 1909, and the said Tithe Acts, 1836 to 1891, DO HEREBY ALTER the apportionment of the said Rentcharges in the manner and proportions mentioned in the Second Schedule hereof.
IN WITNESS AND CONFIRMATION whereof the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries have hereunto set their Official Seal this nineteenth day of July nineteen hundred and fifteen.
Transcription of the Amended First Schedule
The amended first schedule is transcribed directly into the Dataset by double entry typing, and is therefore not repeated here.
Transcription of the Amended Second Schedule
The amended second schedule is transcribed directly into the Dataset by double entry typing, and is therefore not repeated here.
Dataset
The Dataset
The dataset comprises all of the transcribed information from the Tithe Apportionment and Maps together with additional information, including, inter alia, geolocation and census data. All held in an Excel Spreadsheet. The data is both analysed within the spreadsheet and formed into reports for export as csv files to populate the StoryMap data.
Primary Data
Primary Data
Below is the first page of the spreadsheet containing the Nursling Tithe Dataset. It shows the Primary or key facts pertaining to the Parish of Nursling.
It is a live document, so if the dataset changes, so does this.
Detailed Data - Summary
Detailed Data - Summary
The Summary in the Tithe Apportionment paperwork often appears after the Schedule, and of which it is, as the title suggests, the summary, by landowner and occupier. It includes details of the area together with both the small and great Tithe.
The transcription is below as an extract of the spreadsheet containing the dataset.
Out of this first pass of information, with the addition of gender based on the names of the people, I have generated some graphs within the spreadsheet. They are live and interactive on the spreadsheet, but here they are screenshots.
As well as the addition of gender, there are some which are general neutral, such as Assignees, which includes Executors, Trustees and the like, Corporate, including the Church, and Public etc, which also includes roads, where measured.
Land Area - Acres
You can see from the Pie chart that Sir John Barker Mill is by far the largest single landowner with 74%. However, the graph does not show much other land he owns but leases to others, with the lessees recorded in the landowners column.
The Pie chart above shows the 1581.85 acres not leased out but owned by Sir John Barker Mill together with a further 141.69 acres, approximately 20%..
Altogether he therefore owns about 94% of the parish. The 19% of land where Sir John Barker Mill is lessor on the lower pie chart but 20% on the one above is just the way the numbers round.
Lord Viscount Palmerston, the owner of The Broadlands Estate between Nursling and Romsey, is the only other Landowner, but even that, as both Landowner and Lessee, only equates to less than 5% of the total area.
Looking at the gender split, 89% of the land is attributed to males as Landowners / Lessees with just 9% attributed to females. The pie chart above represents that 9%, with Mary Ann King clearly the leader with 114 acres, 59%. There are 9 Widows amongst the 15 women listed as Landowners / Lessees. Just known as widow of husband.
I recognise that in terms of gender 89% plus 9% does not equate to 100%. That is therefore 2% other.
Strictly speaking, this is not consistent with the other graphs as a large proportion of the other 2% is Landowner Sir John Barker Mill, so that would add another 1% of the whole to the male camp above. However, that land is occupied by Rice and Coward, who I have attributed to Corporate. It could be Mr Rice and Mr Coward, but that would normally be John Rice and another, if Mr Rice was a John. Having attributed Rice and Coward to corporate It thought it better to bring it out here for clarity.
Rentcharge - Vicar
The is no value to the Vicar in the Tithe Apportionment for the Parish of Nursling
Rentcharge - Rector
Not surprisingly, Sir John Barker Mill, being the biggest landowner, results in having the biggest proportion of Rentcharge. He also has further lands where most of the list are his lessees. Of the total rentcharge for the Parish of Nursling of £550 Sir John Barker Mill is directly responsible for approximately £406. In 2020, the relative value of £406 4s 3d from 1846 ranges from £40,220.00 to £1,467,000.00. With a relative income value of that income or wealth is £464,600.00.
We know from the Tithe Apportionment for the Parish of Millbrook that Sir John Barker Mill has substantial holdings in that parish as well as almost the whole of Nursling. In The Genealogist website, searching for Landowner and Occupier (mainly Tithe) records, for John Barker (surname) Mill in the Parish of (keyword) Nursling resulted in 497 records. Remove the keyword Nursling and replace it with Landowner, that number goes up to 2,684 results. Some of both these numbers could still be double entries, being in some instances both Landowner and Occupier. Of those results 2,113 were in Hampshire
Other Parishes it that list include, in the County of Hampshire; Broughton (6), East Dean (59), Mottisfont (530), Longstock (174), Kingsomborne and Little Sombourne (King's Somborne) (87), Stockbridge (2), Eling (537), Millbrook (255) and Nursling (461), and Whiteparish (10) in the County of Wiltshire. The total of the Hampshire identified parishes is 2111 results, so either 2 in another parish or just an anomaly.
| Parish | Count of search results | Quantity | Rentcharge V | Rentcharge R | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | R | P | £ | s | d | £ | s | d | ||
| Broughton | 6 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | |||
| East Dean | 59 | 601 | 1 | 5 | 101 | 14 | 3 | |||
| Eling | 537 | 2355 | 1 | 33 | 86 | 7 | 06 | 179 | 19 | 0 |
| Kingsomborne and Little Sombourne (King's Somborne) | 87 | 732 | 1 | 24 | 62 | 16 | 5 | 16 | 19 | 10 |
| Longstock | 174 | 820 | 3 | 2 | 100 | 12 | 2 | 136 | 15 | 1 |
| Millbrook | 255 | 820 | 1 | 37 | 303 | 12 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 9 |
| Mottisfont | 530 | 1737 | 3 | 15 | 295 | 5 | 0 | |||
| Nursling | 461 | 2076 | 2 | 7 | 522 | 1 | 8 | |||
| Stockbridge | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 11 | ||||
| Whiteparish | 10 | 33 | 2 | 29 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 8 |
| Total (10) | 2121 | 9187 | 3 | 38 | 553 | 14 | 10 | 1263 | 17 | 10 |
| 3718 Hectares | £ 553.74 | £ 1263.90 | ||||||||
This is just a quick collection with none of the checks for accuracy that are done for specific parishes. Even so, it does show Sir John Barker Mill to be a very significant land owner with about 9000 acres spread over 9 parishes in Hampshire and one parish in Wiltshire. Eling is complicated as it has multiple Impropriators and therefore multiple entries for Sir John Barker Mill in both the Schedule and in the Summary.
Detailed Data - Landowner and Occupier Summary
Detailed Data - Summary
Detailed Summary - Schedule
Detailed Data - Schedule
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Land Usage
Graph of Land Usage in Whiteparish in 1842 from the Tithe Apportionment information.
Analysis of the land usage based on the Tithe Apportionment information, showing the primary use as arable at 61%, and secondary usages of woodland 18% and pasture 16%. Common and Furze land has been reduced to about 1%, presumably as a result of the Inclosure Acts, (Enclosure).
Land Ownership
Graph of Land Ownership in Whiteparish in 1842 from the Tithe Apportionment information.
Land Ownership is more widely distributed than in some parishes that I have looked at.
Scroll right to see the list of landowners associated to the graph.
Plot register
The Table with all the data of the Detailed Plot register.
This table has the Landowners and Occupiers of all the Plots in the Parish, including the Description or Names of the plots together with the State of Cultivation. It instances where there is no entry, but it is evident what the Land Usage is I have added the category surrounded with { Brace Brackets }. Not relative to the Tithe Apportionment as some of the Land Usage is not part of the charge regime, however {Residence), {Premises} and {Retail} etc are useful additions. There are approximately 220 Mansions, Houses, or Cottages etc, across the Parish.
The areas of each plot together with the Rentcharge amount in respect of both the Small and Great Tithe, for the Vicar and Impropriator.
Top Ten Landowners
Top Ten Landowners in Whiteparish from the Tithe Apportionment information
From this analysis of the plot level detail for the Parish of Whiteparish the Top Ten Landowners own 91% of the whole recorded area of the parish. Two of the Landowners were relations to the Nelson of The Battle of Trafalgar fame.
Horatio Nelson, 3rd Earl Nelson, (7 August 1823 – 25 February 1913), was 16 years 9 months 7 days at the recorded data of the survey, 14th May 1840, a Minor, hence the Guardians of ...
He was the son of Thomas Bolton (a nephew of Vice Admiral The 1st Viscount Nelson) by his wife Frances Elizabeth Eyre. On 28 February 1835 his father inherited the title Earl Nelson from William Nelson, 1st Earl Nelson and adopted the surname of Nelson. He died on 1 November that year, and his son Horatio succeeded to the title and the estate, Trafalgar House in Wiltshire, in the nearby parish of Downton. The Eyre Family were the owners of Brickworth Park according to the Turnpike Acts for the Whiteparish Romsey Southampton Road. The Dowager Countess Frances Elizabeth Nelson was recorded as being the Landowner as Brickworth Park.
The remainder are either titled or referred to as Esquire. Although not all of the Esquires are in the top ten.
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