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GREAT HARWOOD CENSUS INFORMATION
supplied by flo monty
Some of these are large files so to be certain you have downloaded them completely make sure you see END at the bottom of the page.

Censuses for some surrounding towns at .org


DIRECTORIES FOR GREAT HARWOOD
Mannex
1854
Barrett's
1878
Barrett's
1881
Barrett's
1885
Barrett's
1888
Barrett's
1891
Barrett's
1894
Barrett's
1897
Barrett's
1903
Barrett's
1906
The Barretts are scanned images and therefore not searchable. Not the best of copies either.
So if you're unsure of an entry let me know and I'll have a look at my copy.
If you want to volunteer to transcribe these directories so they are searchable see above.

St. Bartholomew's Churchyard
Index of names on gravestones. Transcriptions of gravestones. Use these with the plans to find the positions of graves.

St. Bartholomew's Burial Registers
1813 onwards.


Wills

Abstracts from the Wills of some of Great Harwood's more prosperous inhabitants and, where permission has been granted, transcriptions of the full Last Will and Testament with inventory of possessions. The abstracts give names to help with family research and, even without a family connection, the inventories give an interesting, personal insight to the times they were made.
Have a go at deciphering a will from 1611.

Register of Recusants 1682 and Returns of Papists 1767
From Elizabethan times lists of recusants were compiled. The second list, 1767, covers Great Harwood and Rishton.

Great Harwood Window Tax 1762
List of contributors to this infamous tax and how much their extravagant use of natural light cost them.

Window Tax Lower Town 1782
List for only part of the town although there are almost as many paying as there were 20 years earlier in the whole town.

Land Tax 1782
A Land Tax was imposed from 1692 to 1831, and was made perpetual in 1797.

Land Tax 1800
Returns were made every spring. The usual rate was 4 shillings in the pound.

1847 Tithe

Tenant list of the enclosed Great Harwood Moor, 1762
Enclosing the moor had been going on for years before this list was made. It shows not only the tenants of the new farm land but also that the Heskeths as owners of two thirds of Great Harwood were alotted two thirds of what had been common land.

Lease of Squires Farm, 1726
"Between Thomas Hesketh of Rufford in the County of Lancaster Esquire of the one part and John Mercer of Harwood magna in the said County yeoman on the other part .......................................... "

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