Stoke Abbott, circa 1841
I have done my best to locate the households of Stoke Abbott in 1841 by combining the details shown on the Census for that year and the Tithe Map for 1842. This is not the easiest of tasks as the Tithe Map records Landowners and Occupiers while the Census lists individuals by household. The Occupier of a property in Tithe terms being the person who owns or leases the plot and pays the tithes. This is not necessarily the physical occupant of the property (eg George HANN snr who was a landlord and Parish Clerk is shown as being occupier of a house at Curfew Plot owned by the Parish, the house he lived in and also property five other plots that he let out). A Household in the Census could just be one person, so a property could be occupied by a family with a household head and a number of their family etc, or it could just be occupied by three different individuals who would all be shown as the head of their individual household. It appears that some households lived in properties divided for multi-occupancy (Nos. 3, 9, 16, 25 and 35 on map) whereas others just lived in a room within larger properties. For those households for whom I have been unable to ascertain living arrangements, those with the knowledge may be possible to make an educated guess by investigating whether there are sufficient relationships between them to believe they may have lived together (eg three households for two properties - SMITH, Jones and Brown, for instance - was Mrs SMITH nee Jones?)
Households of the 1841 census (in census order)
Occ |
Head and size of household |
Map No |
Occ |
Head and size of household |
Map No |
Occ |
Head and size of household |
Map No |
Occ |
Head and size of household |
Map No |
The Village |
Benjamin DAVEY (7) |
16* |
Francis HUSSEY (9) |
30 |
Samuel MEECH (5) |
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James MARWOOD (8) |
1 |
John HELLIAR (3) |
16* |
George HALLETT (1) |
John TUCKER (9) |
41 |
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William WAKELY (5) |
William COOMBS (6) |
16* |
The Village |
Mary BROWN (1) |
44 |
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William HELLIAR (4) |
2 |
Henry SYMES (7) |
18 |
John FORSEY (8) |
Anne STAPLE (2) |
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John TIZARD (10) |
John HAMILTON (3) |
19 |
Daniel TRUMP (7) |
Thomas KNIGHT (4) |
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Sarah FORSEY (8) |
John GUPPY (6) |
20 |
James HELLIER (4) |
George WHITE (5) |
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Judith FOWLER (2) |
John CORNICK (6) |
21 |
George CORNICK (2) |
George SYMES 7) |
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Henry HANN (4) |
7 |
James NORRIS (5) |
21 |
William CANTERBURY (4) |
David HANN (6) |
45 |
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William STAPLE (6) |
8 |
Wiilliam AKERMAN (3) |
David BUGLER (9) |
Thomas KNIGHT (3) |
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John IVORY (7) |
John HUTCHINGS (2) |
22 |
Church Lane |
William KNIGHT (2) |
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Jane STOODLEY (5) |
George BARTLETT (2) |
Joshua CANTERBURY (4) |
34 |
John GILLINGHAM (5) |
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Betsey CANTERBURY (6) |
Arthur HANN (8) |
23 |
George SLADE (3) |
35* |
George GILLINGHAM (6) |
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William DAVIS (9) |
John HUSSEY (2) |
Henry SLADE (2) |
35* |
William HANN jnr (2) |
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Abraham WAKELY (4) |
Philip CLARE (3) |
24 |
Simeon HALLETT (9) |
35* |
George HANN snr (2) |
46 |
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John MEECH (2) |
9* |
John SEAL (3) |
25* |
Berry |
Robert NORTH (4) |
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Henry HELLIAR (2) |
9* |
Nathaniel MEECH (5) |
25* |
Robert HARDY (5) |
36 |
John KERSLAKE (4) |
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Robert ELLIOTT (3) |
11 |
Norway Lane |
George CANTERBURY (7) |
36 |
John WILDRON (5) |
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William PURCHASE (5) |
12 |
William CLARE (4) |
26 |
Butts Bubbles |
Samuel STAPLE (3) |
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Elizabeth WAKELY (3) |
12 |
Manasses CLARE (1) |
26 |
Job CANTERBURY (2) |
38 |
Jonathan PROSSER (3) |
47 |
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William HANN snr (6) |
13 |
Richard CLARE (2) |
26 |
John PARKER (3) |
38 |
Frederick DAUNCEY (5) |
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Charles COOMBS (7) |
William KERSLAKE (2) |
Butts |
George SMITH (7) |
48 |
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George PAYNE (5) |
14 |
Martha CLARE (1) |
27 |
Thomas CLARE (2) |
37 |
ind |
Thomas CONWAY (5) |
49 |
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George HANN jnr (4) |
15 |
William HANSFORD (4) |
28 |
Hannah KERSLAKE (6) |
37 |
Robert PARKER (3) |
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Robert ELLIOTT |
16* |
William HUSSEY (2) |
29 |
The Village |
David ROBERTS (3) |
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Benjamin VINCENT (3) |
16* |
Robert SEAL (4) |
29 |
Rev George S PAYNE (3) |
39 |
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James SEAL (3) |
16* |
Charles EDWARDS (4) |
29 |
Edward HOLLAND (3) |
32 |
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* indicates tenement where property divided for multi-household occupancy |
Main occupation of household: |
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stone worker |
butcher/pig dealer |
Innkeeper |
tinman |
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farmer |
carpenter |
razor grinder |
miller |
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farm labouring |
shoemaker |
thatcher |
clergyman | ||||
flax processer/sailcloth manufacturer |
tailor |
A full list of 1841 inhabitants can be found on the Dorset OPC webpage
Map of Stoke Abbott village
It was not until I did this exercise that I realised that at this time the village was split into three parts, occupationally. To the north of the village where the road travels west-east and where there were two farms, and south of the church where there were two more farms, lived the majority of farm labourers. In the centre, around the church and in a large swathe down to the valley in which the flax mill (next to Horsehill Farm) was situated to the east of the village between the Beaminster and Netherbury roads, lived those employed in the processing of flax and the manufacture of sailcloth and sacking. Those few flax workers who lived in the north doing so at the eastern end of the village nearest the road to the mill which led off the Beaminster road. 'Service' occupations being spread amongst the village to be available to all. The farm that I have marked as Payne's Farm (as it was owned by George Payne) which later became the New Inn seems to have been recorded as Stoke Farm in 1851. In 1841 and 1861, none of the farms were named and in 1851 the only one named was Stoke Farm which seems to be in the north of the village next to the pub - the one near the church being un-named
Since creating this page ancestry.co.uk and thegenealogist.co.uk have put tithe map details online so I have been able to check where various houses are and if necessary revise the original table (above). Below is a table of tithe equivalents and their owners and residents
Entries for the 1839 Tithe map
Map Ref(above) |
Tithe Ref |
Description |
a-r-p |
Owner | Occupier |
1 | 547 | House garden and orchard | 1-0-15 | Robert WOODCOCK | James MARWOOD |
2 | 546 | House and garden | 0-0-12 | Robert WOODCOCK | William HELLIAR |
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4 | 409 | House and garden | 0-0-32 | Charles COOMBS snr | Charles COOMBS jnr |
5 | 410 | Orchard | 2-1-15 | Charles COOMBS snr | Charles COOMBS jnr |
6 | 224 | House garden and orchard | 0-2-24 | Samuel COX | John SEYMOUR |
7 | 527 | House and garden | 0-0-20 | George HANN snr | |
8 | 528 | House and garden | 0-0-18 | George HANN snr | |
9 | 545 | Three tenements and gardens | 0-0-36 | Henry HELLIER | John MEECH, George HUSSEY & Hannah KERSLAKE |
10 | 303 | House and garden | 0-0-17 | Robert CONWAY | John Tucker |
11 | 544 | House garden and orchard | 0-2-9 | Isaac STAPLE | Robert ELLIOTT |
12 | 543 | House garden and orchard | 0-2-20 | Edmund WAKELY | William PURCHASE |
13 | 542 | House garden and orchard | 0-1-23 | William HANN | William HANN |
14 | 384 | Homestead and garden | 0-3-39 | Hon. Henry Damer DAWSON | George Payne |
15 | 559 | House garden and orchard | 0-2-17 | Henry WHEADON | George HANN jnr |
16 | 557 | Three tenements garden and orchard | 0-2-16 | Edward SMITH | John COOMBS, William Knight & John HELLIER |
17 | 558 | Cottages and gardens | 0-0-26 | Alexander WELLMAN | John TUCKER |
18 | 541 | House and garden | 0-0-32 | Henry SYMES | Henry SYMES |
19 | 325 | House buildings and garden | 0-1-0 | Christopher WELLMAN | John HAMILTON |
20 | 540 | House and garden | 0-0-35 | George HANN snr | |
21 | 556 | House and garden | 0-0-8 | William HANN | James Norris & John CORNICK |
22 | 539 | House and garden | 0-0-18 | John HUTCHINGS | John HUTCHINGS |
23 | 538 | House garden and orchard | 0-2-8 | Arthur HANN | Arthur HANN |
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25 | 536 | Two tenements and garden | 0-0-16 | John DAVEY | Nathaniel Meech and John SEAL |
26 | 564 | Houses and garden | 0-0-18 | Manessah Wm & Richard CLARE | Manessah Wm & Richard CLARE |
27 | 565 | House and garden | 0-0-13 | Martha CLARE | Martha CLARE |
28 | 585 | House and garden | 0-0-10 | William HANSFORD | William HANSFORD |
29 | 566 | Houses and gardens | 0-0-34 | Charles EDWARDS, Robert SEAL & William HUSSEY | Charles EDWARDS, Robert SEAL & William HUSSEY |
30 | 567 | House and garden | 0-0-13 | Frank HUSSEY | Frank HUSSEY |
31 | 554 | House and garden | 0-0-32 | Stoke Abbott parish | George HANN snr |
32 | 553 | House and garden | 0-0-17 | Edward HOLLAND | Edward HOLLAND |
33 | 413 | Houses and garden | 0-1-7 | Matthew GALPIN | Charles COOMBS jnr |
34 | 534 | House and garden | 0-0-8 | Rev William Page RICHARDS | James CANTERBURY |
35 | 535 | Three tenements and gardens | 0-0-10 | New College Oxford | Robert LARCOMBE, William MARSH & Simon HALLETT |
36 | 411 | House and garden | 0-0-12 | Matthew GALPIN | Charles COOMBS jnr |
37 | 581 | House garden and nursery | 0-1-16 | Thomas CLARE | Thomas CLARE |
38 | 582 | Houses and Gardens | 0-0-38 | John SNELL | James SEAL and John PARKER |
39 | 265a | Parsonage barn and yard | 0-0-27 | Rev William Page RICHARDS | George SMITH |
40 | 283 | House and garden | 0-1-21 | Robert CONWAY | John TUCKER |
41 | 533 | Homestead | 0-0-37 | Robert CONWAY | John TUCKER |
42 | 283 | House and garden | 0-1-21 | Robert CONWAY | John TUCKER |
43 | 552 | Independent Chapel | 0-0-6 | Henry WHEADON | |
44 | 551 | House garden and orchard | 2-0-16 | Mary BROWN | Mary BROWN |
45 | 532 | House and garden | 0-0-14 | George HANN snr | |
46 | 530 | House garden and orchard | 0-1-34 | George HANN snr | George HANN snr |
47 | 531 | House garden and orchard | 0-2-17 | Jonathan PROSSER | Jonathan PROSSER |
48 | 508 | Homestead and garden | 0-0-11 | George SMITH | George SMITH |
49 | 391 | House and garden | 0-1-2 | Thomas CONWAY | Thomas CONWAY |
Four members of the Hann family were recorded in the Tithe records as owners or liable for the following properties:
Owner | Occupier |
Plot No |
Current name of property |
William Hann | Himself |
542 |
Mins Cottage and Gales Cottage |
James Norris & John Cornick |
556 |
1-2 Brooklyn Cottages | |
Arthur Hann | Himself |
538 |
The Old Bakery, Church House, Church House Cott. & Orchard Cottage |
George Hann snr | Himself |
530 |
, The Barn, Old Sawyers Cottage |
Not stated |
529 |
Orchard at rear of Woodlands Cottage and 1-2 Chartknolle Cottages | |
528 |
Woodlands Cottage | ||
527 |
1-2 Chartknolle Cottages | ||
525 |
Croft (a narrow NW-SE field north of Brimley Mill) | ||
532 |
Post Office Cottage and Linden Lea | ||
540 |
1-2 Wayside Cottages | ||
Henry Wheadon | George Hann jnr |
559 |
Anchor House |
Stoke Abbott Parish | George Hann snr (as Parish Clerk) |
554 |
Curfew Plot |
552 |
Independent Chapel | ||
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Roads etc. |
PROPERTIES WITH HANN CONNECTIONS IN THE 1842 TITHE RECORDS |
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1 - 2 Chartknolle Cottages
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Woodlands Cottage |
Plot 527 |
Plot 528 |
Old Sawyers, The Barn, Swift Cottage and Orchard View
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Post Office Cottage and Linden Lea |
Plot 530 |
Plot 532 |
The Old Bakery, Church House, Church House Cottage and Orchard Cottage
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1-2 Wayside Cottages |
Plot 538 |
Plot 540 - |
Mins and Gales Cottages
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1-2 Brooklyn Cottages |
Plot 542 - | Plot 556 - |
Anchor House
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Plot 559 - |