Tag: HEARTH TAX
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Died, very rich?
The Non-Conformist or Northowram Register, as it has become known, does not merely preserve the bare bones of baptisms, marriages and burials between 1644 and 1743. 1 The Presbyterian minister Oliver Heywood and his successor Thomas Dickenson occasionally added pithy comments that help illuminate the lives of their congregation in Halifax (and some further afield).…
Early Modern Kinship 