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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Hearth tax - Lanarkshire - Volume 1, E69/15/1

Hearth tax transcription

[page] 81 -- Biggar Parish

The Earle of Wigtouns List
Boghall house -- 15
James Telfer -- 1
William Brown -- 1
Andrew Telfer -- 1
Peter Telfer -- 1
William Watson -- 1
John felstown -- 1
Alexander Wardlaw -- 4
James Twadell -- 1
John Kello -- 2
John Wilson -- 1
John Thripland -- 2
John Bogle -- 1
Alexander Smith -- 1
Gilbert Vallance -- 1
James Penman -- 1
Ritchard Jamison -- 1


Parserlands list
The Lady her self -- 5
James McWatt -- 1
John Wilson -- 1

Biggertoun List
William Tait bayllie -- 2
James Wilson -- 3
John Hill -- 1
[total] 49

James Crighton -- 2
Hew McKennan -- 2
William Crighton -- 2
James Broun bayllie -- 3
James Mcmurren -- 1
James Vallance -- 1
Malcom Broun -- 2
Margaret Smith -- 1
James Carmichaell -- 1
John Gilchreist -- 1
James Tod -- 2
James Aitkin -- 2
Alexander Broun -- 1
John France -- 1
Thomas Cosh -- 2
James Jonkison -- 1
James Forsyth mrt [merchant] -- 12
Andrew Broun -- 2
John Lang -- 1
[total] -- 40

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Hearth tax - Lanarkshire - Volume 1, E69/15/1

This volume contains a list of householders liable for hearth tax in Lanarkshire in 1694.

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records)

The Scottish Exchequer, and subsequently the Court of Exchequer, were concerned with the accounting of collected taxes in Scotland. These taxes include the Carriage tax (1785-1798), Cart tax (1785-1798), Clock and watch tax (1797-1798), Dog tax (1797-1798), Farm horse tax (1797-1798), Servant tax (1777-1798), Hearth tax (1691-1695), Horse tax (1785-1798), Inhabited house tax (1778-1798), Land tax (1645-1831), Poll tax (1694-1698), Shop tax (1785-1789), Window tax (1748-1798). Following the Consolidating Acts (38 Geo. III cap. 40 and 41), the duties on windows, inhabited houses, male servants, carts, carriages and dogs were incorporated in Consolidated Schedules of Assessed Taxes (1798-1799).

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