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Fersfield : Absent Voters 1918 - 1921

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Tithing was the centuries-old, mainly rural, system of a 10% levy or tax in produce on land, stock and industry for the upkeep of the local Church and its clergyman. The ‘payment in kind’ had been established in Anglo-Saxon England before the Norman Conquest. In some cases the right to receive the tithe was acquired by an organisation such as a monastery or a college, who paid a curate. It was applied to farms, gardens and small pastures within rural and urban areas, and the bulk produce (hay, grain, wood, etc.) were stored in huge tithe barns.
The tithes themselves were controversial, particularly among nonconformists who resented supporting the established church and payment in kind was sometimes not convenient for either the farmer or the tithe owner.
The “Tithe Commutation Act 1836” and an amending act in 1837 established a process whereby tithes could be converted to money payments. This required the drawing of an accurate map showing all the land in each parish.
The resulting series of maps provided unprecedented coverage, detail and accuracy. The map and its accompanying schedule gave the names of all owners and occupiers of land in the parish. Each map showed at least the boundaries of woods, fields, roads and waterways and the location of buildings. The houses are sometimes shown in enough detail to show their shape.
The tithe apportionment was the main record that accompanies the tithe map, giving how tithes were to be applied, showing the overall rentcharge for the district was apportioned to individual landowners on the basis of identifiable pieces of land, and how much tithe had to be paid for each plot of land. Every plot on the tithe map has a number on it and this matches the entry in the apportionment. It detailed the name of the landowner, the name of the occupier, the name of the field or piece of land, the type of cultivation, the acreage and its tithe valuation.
Legislation in 1925, 1936 and 1951 reduced payments but it was not until the Finance Act 1977 that tithes were finally abolished.
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Records found = 40 from 125065
ID	No.	Name	Date	Address	Notes
23495	18	SMITH Oscar	1918	Village	82249 L.-Cpl., 238th M.G.C.
23496	1	ALLUM Percy	1918	Common	46658 Pte., 12th Bn. Rifle Bde.
23497	2	BARTRUM Charles	1918	Thwaites Green	1164 Pte., No. 2 C.H.D., A.V.C.
23498	3	BARTRUM Roland	1918	Thwaites Green	9033 Pte., 7th Nfk. Regt.
23499	4	BRASNETT Herbert Lewis	1918	Hall	279254 Pte., 2/4th Lon. Regt.
23500	5	BRASNETT Wilfred Gordon	1918	Hall	354704 Pte., 7th Lon. Regt.
23501	6	BUCKLE Archibald	1918	Village	M2/052563 Pte., 161st Batty. R.G.A.
23502	7	BUCKLE Reginald	1918	Village	4664 Dvr., 77th Army Bde.
23503	8	BURROWS Basil	1918	Village	234258 Pte., 60th Batty. Lessness Park, Abbey Wood, Lon.
23504	9	HALL Ernest	1918	Village	Pte., Lab. Bn.
23505	10	HALL Standley	1918	Village	343668 Pte., 527 (H.S.) Emp. Co.
23506	11	HOSKINS William Percy	1918	Common	85204 Sap., 207th Field Co., R.E.
23507	12	JOYCE Alfred	1918	c/o Mrs. Crick	94487 Pte., 1st Tr. Bn. R.A.M.C.
23508	13	LOND John Horace	1918	Wash Farm	200986 Sgt., l/4th Nfk. Regt.
23509	14	LOND Reginald Charles C.	1918	Wash Farm	45359 Pte., 30th Co. M.G.C.
23510	15	NEVILLE William	1918	Village	46330 2-A.M., 2nd Balloon Co. R.A.F.
23511	16	NEWSTEAD William	1918	Village	79019 Pte., 14th Siege Batty. R.G.A.
23512	17	ROGERS Standley John Stephen	1918	Algar House	240860 Pte., 450th Ag. Co.
23513	39	BARTRUM Roland	1919 Aut	Thwaites Green	9033 Pte., 7th Nfks
23514	40	MEARS Frederick	1919 Aut	Close Rd.	386426 Dvr., Aux. H.T. Co. A.S.C.
23515	19	ALLUM Percy	1919 Spr	Wilney Green	Wilney Green, Fersfield
23516	20	BARTRUM Charles	1919 Spr	Thwaites Green	Thwaites Green, Fersfield
23517	21	BARTRUM Roland	1919 Spr	Thwaites Green	9033 Pte., 7th Nfk. Regt.
23518	22	BRASNETT Herbert Lewis	1919 Spr	Hall	279254 Pte., 2/4th Lon. Regt.
23519	23	BRASNETT Wilfred Gordon	1919 Spr	Hall	Hall, Fersfield
23520	24	BUCKLE Archibald	1919 Spr	Village	Fersfield
23521	25	BUCKLE Reginald	1919 Spr	Village	4664 Dvr., 77th Army Bde.
23522	26	HALL Standley	1919 Spr	Village	Fersfield
23523	27	HOSKINS William Percy	1919 Spr	Common	85204 Sap., 207th Field Co., R.E.
23524	28	JOYCE Alfred	1919 Spr	c/o Mrs. Crick	94487 Pte., 20th Coy., R.A.M.C.
23525	29	LOND John Horace	1919 Spr	Wash Farm	200986 Sgt., 1/4th Nfk. Regt.
23526	30	LOND Reginald Charles C.	1919 Spr	Wash Farm	45359 Pte., 30th Co. M.G.C.
23527	31	NEWSTEAD William	1919 Spr	Wash Farm	Fersfield
23528	32	ROGERS Standley John Stephen	1919 Spr	Algar House	240860 Pte., 450th Ag. Co.
23529	33	SCOTT Oscar	1919 Spr	Wilney Green	82249 L.-Cpl., 238th M.G.C.
23530	34	BRASNETT Thomas Claud	1919 Spr	Hall	Hall, Fersfield
23531	35	GARLAND Edgar Willie	1919 Spr	Hall Lane	Hall Lane, Fersfield
23532	36	HOSKINS Russell	1919 Spr	Common	Common, Fersfield
23533	37	MEARS Frederick	1919 Spr	Close Rd.	386426 Dvr., Aux. H.T. Co.A.S.C.
23534	38	NEWSTEAD Ernest Frederick.	1919 Spr	Village	34234 Pte., 3rd R. Sussex Regt.
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