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RECORDS AND ROLLS
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Families can be traced back in time through a variety of legal and church documents---- 1.Medieval Court Rolls.(written in Latin,re property transactions and felonies etc). 2.Tax Rolls.(lists of property holders paying Lay Subsidies,Hearth and Window taxes etc). 3.Poll Books.(lists of freeholders and tenant holders entitled to vote at elections). 4.Church Records.(of births,deaths and marriages also some church warden accounts). 5.Wills.(of generally the more wealthy families up to 1837 held at Lichfield Cathedral). 6.Census Returns.(1841&1851 the first U.K.records of every household and its occupants).
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1Medieval Court Rolls- (an example from some held in the County Record Office,Shrewsbury). 1401. Griffith ap Howell and Roger his son feloniously robbed Radulphum Giffard and John Wetales of 14 oxen price 100s at Waters Upton. 1414. Seven men feloniously murdered Griffith ap Howell at Tern Hill.
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2. 1327. The Shropshire Lay Subsidy.(A Tax by King Edward III on all property holders). TheN and S Bradford Hundreds Divisions of North Shropshire. (22 Parishes with 300 Houses). PARISHES HOUSEHOLDERS GRIFFITHS or MADOC Shawbury 16 - Stok sup Tern (Stoke upon Tern) 42 Griffino de Lee Cold Hatton 7 - Elwarthyn (Ellerdine) 14 Thomas Madoc Magna Ercalewe (High Ercall) 28 - Staunton sup Hyne Heth 14 - Ighterfield 8 Griffino fil Rici
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3. THE SHROPSHIRE HEARTH TAX ROLL 1662&1672.A list of Householders in theCounty .PARISH No of HOUSEHOLDERS No of GRIFFITHS HEARTHS (Bradford North Hundred) Edgebolton 16 John Griffiths 3 Muckleton 12 - Shawbury 16 - Stanton upon Hine Heath 18 - Hatton on Hine Heath 18 - Hodnet - Peplow Griffiths Richards 1 Stoke upon Tern - - Weston and Whixall Thomas Griffiths 1 (Paupers discharged from paying include Ellen Griffiths,Cicely Griffiths and Philip Griffiths). (Bradford South Hundred) High Ercall 12 ;Rowton18 ;Osbaston 6; Roden 12 --- Sleape 9 names missing Ellardine 8 - Cold Hatton 13; Waters Upton 19; Great Bolas 20; - Upton Magna 38 John Griffiths 1 Walcott 8 Griffiths house 1 .Kinnersley 25 Thomas Griffiths 1 James Griffiths 1 .Eyton upon Wyld Moor - (Paupers discharged from payment number 265 and include no Griffiths's).
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