GUIDE TO RECORDS OF RATING AND TAXATION Introduction This Guide is intended to bring together in summary list form by parish all nominal lists of inhabitants which may be regarded as reasonably comprehensive of their kind. Thus some are full population lists, while others may be restricted to the owners and/or occupiers of land. Usually only the covering dates and major gaps are given. The parishes used as the basis of this guide are either ancient or civil (and not ecclesiastical) as is appropriate to the records in question. Parishes of different kinds may not have identical boundaries, especially in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and any introductory notes about boundary changes should be carefully read. Rating records Except in some ancient boroughs the earliest examples are church rates, which may date from the fifteenth or sixteenth centuries. Church Rates became voluntary after 1868, and any later examples will be increasingly incomplete. The parish poor rate was made compulsory in 1563 though records do not normally survive before the seventeenth century. This rate was the basis of all later civil rates. After 1835 it was collected on a district (Poor Law Union) basis, developing in the twentieth century into the district rate. It was administered by district councils after 1925. Rates were based on valuation lists, which were complete reassessments made at intervals, and which are listed separately. Annual, supplementary, valuations, may sometimes be found. Highway rates will generally be encountered in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but there are occasional earlier examples. Taxation records The earliest surviving taxation records are to be found in The National Archives. Of these, particularly useful examples include the lay subsidy returns of 1524-1525, which are printed in Sussex Record Society 56 (ESRO Library); and the hearth tax returns of 1662, 1665-6, and 1670, which are available in ESRO on microfilm (XA 5 series); the 1662 returns for the Rapes of Lewes and Pevensey are published (ESRO Library). References to these are not given in this guide because they are arranged on a hundred/borough (ie tithing) basis, not by parish. The principal series of records listed here are the land tax assessments, which may range in date from 1693 to the 1930s or 1940s, though some places only begin in 1750 or 1780, and some may end in the mid-nineteenth century. The returns for East and West Sussex in 1785 have been published Sussex Record Society 77 and Sussex Record Society 82. Other forms of tax, such as the poll, window or other assessed’ taxes, may occasionally be mentioned, but there is no coherent series of these. A transcript of the 1747 window tax assessments is available on-line at www.sussexrecordsociety.org/home.asp. The ‘Doomsday’ valuation of 1911 is a particularly useful countywide land and property assessment for that year. For further information about how to use it see the introduction to the IRV list. Introduction Tithe maps and apportionments These parish surveys recording the ownership and occupation of land and property, generally between 1836 and 1850, are particularly useful because they locate holdings on large-scale maps. Census returns Except for a few 1801-1831 national census returns, and for some private censuses, the records noted here are all microforms of originals held at The National Archives. Unless otherwise stated, they are all full population listings. There are surname indexes to the 1851 returns for eastern Sussex (ESRO Library) and national indexes to the returns 1841-1901 (www.ancestry.co.uk) and street indexes for Brighton, 1851-1901, Eastbourne, 1891-1901, Hastings, 1881-1901 and Hove, 1891-1901. June 2014 Albourne Transferred to West Sussex, 1974. Document type Reference Microform reference Land tax 1785 AMS 6118/1 Census 1841 1851 XA 9/17-18 1861 XA 2/8 1871 XA 53/116 1881 XA 27/12 1891 XA 54/124 1901 XA 81/141 Alciston Adds area from Selmeston, 1883; loses detached area to Selmeston, 1934; loses part to Alfriston, 1990. Document type Reference Microform reference Land tax 1749-1779 ELT/Alciston XA 31/1 1780-1832 LT/Alciston XA 31/1 1834-1933 LLT/Alciston Tithe map and award nd & 1843 TDE 25/1-2 Census 1841 XA 19/4 1851 XA 9/20 1861 XA 2/10 1871 XA 53/129 1881 XA 27/13 1891 XA 54/137 1901 XA 81/80 Poor rate 1772-1773, 1805-1825 PAR 227/31/1-4 1883-1904 PAR 227/30/1-13 1915-1927 DW/C 1/1 District rate 1928 DW/C 35/1 1931 DW/C 35/17 Valuation list 1911 IRV 1/1 1920 DW/C 48/1 1929 DW/C 49/5 1934 DW/C 36/1 Aldrington Adds detached area from Portslade, 1883; abolished and merged with Hove, 1974. Document type Reference Microform reference Land tax 1780-1831 LT/Hangleton XA 31/13 Tithe map and award 1844 & 1843 TDE 78/1-2 Census 1841 1851 XA 9/22 1861 XA 2/16 1871 XA 53/188 1881 XA 27/20 1891 XA 54/210-211 1901 XA 81/229-231 Poor rate 1914 DO/B 13/5-6 1921 DO/B 13/11-12 Valuation list 1911 IRV 1/87-88 1909-1934 DO/B 12/6, 8 1956-1973 DO/B 12/15, 17, 24 Alfriston Loses area to Seaford, 1934; adds areas from Alciston and Litlington and loses areas to form Cuckmere Valley, 1990. Document type Reference Microform reference Land tax 1750-1779 ELT/Alfriston XA 31/1 1780-1832 LT/Alfriston XA 31/1 1834-1933 LLT/Alfriston Tithe map and award 1843 & 1842 TDE 15/1-2 Census 1821 PAR 230/37/1/1 1841 XA 19/4 1851 XA 9/8 1861 XA 2/4 1871 XA 53/45 1881 XA 27/6 1891 XA 54/66-67 1901 XA 81/80 Poor rate 1916-1926 DW/C 1/3-7 District rate 1928 DW/C 35/2 1931 DW/C 35/16 Valuation list 1911 IRV 1/1 1920 DW/C 48/2 1929 DW/C 49/1 1934 DW/C 36/1 Ardingly Loses detached area to Balcombe, 1934; transferred to West Sussex, 1974. Document type Reference Microform reference Land tax 1785 AMS 6118/2 Census 1841 1851 XA 9/16 1861 XA 2/8 1871 XA 53/104 1881 XA 27/11 1891 XA 54/113-114 1901 XA 81/128-129 Arlington Adds areas from Chiddingly, Hellingly and Wilmington, and loses areas to Berwick, Hellingly and Long Man, 1990. Document type Reference Microform reference Land tax 1750-1779 ELT/Arlington XA 31/1 1780-1832 LT/Arlington XA 31/1 1834-1933 LLT/Arlington Tithe map and award nd & 1843 TDE 51/1-2 Census 1841 XA 19/5 1851 XA 9/8 1861 XA 2/4 1871 XA 53/53 1881 XA 27/7 1891 XA 54/69 1901 XA 81/86 Poor rate 1721-1835 AMS 6342/1-4 1855 DW/C 54/12 1888 PAR 232/30/1/1 1915-1917 DW/C 26/1-4 1921-1926 DW/C 26/1-4 Highway rate 1870-1878, C/R 20/1-10 1884-1894 District rate 1928, 1931-1932 DW/C 28/1, 14 Arlington Document type Reference Microform reference Valuation list 1878 DW/C 55/8 1897, 1903, 1913 DW/C 52/1-3 1911 IRV 1/2 1929-1933 DW/C 53/1 1934 DW/C 36/3 Ashburnham Adds detached area from Dallington, 1883; adds detached area from Dallington and loses area to Ninfield, 1887. Document type Reference Microform reference Land tax 1693-1779 ELT/Ashburnham XA 31/1 1780-1832 LT/Ashburnham XA 31/1 1833-1930 LLT/Ashburnham Tithe map and award 1839 & 1840 PAR 233/21/2 & TDE 68/2 Census 1841 XA 19/1 1851 XA 9/7 1861 XA 2/4 1871 XA 53/42 1881 XA 27/5 1891 XA 54/44 1901 XA 81/42 Church rate 1620-1621 PAR 233/8/1/1-3 Poor rate 1610-1622 PAR 233/30/1-6 1852-1864 PAR 233/38/1/1-7 Valuation list 1838 PAR 233/38/2/1 1864 ASH 3068 1897, 1908 DR/ D 102/6, 20 1911 IRV 1/3 1925, 1929, 1933 DR/D 103/1, 14, 25 1956-1963 DR/D 140/1, 3 1963-1990 DR/D 140/5, 7, 10, 13 1991 DR/D 141/3 Others Poll Tax 1702 ELT/Ashburnham XA 31/1 Window Tax 1747 RAF 15/21 Balcombe Adds detached area from Ardingly and loses detached area to Cuckfield Rural, 1934; adds area from Cuckfield Rural, 1957; transferred to West Sussex, 1974. Document type Reference Microform reference Land tax 1785 AMS 6118/3 Census 1841 1851 XA 9/16 1861 XA 2/8 1871 XA 53/105 1881 XA 27/11 1891 XA 54/114 1901 XA 81/134-135 Barcombe Adds detached area from Newick and loses detached area to Newick, 1934; loses area to Chailey, 1990. Document type Reference Microform reference Land tax 1703 AMS 5556 1780-1832 LT/Barcombe XA 31/1-2 1833-1933 LLT/Barcombe Tithe map and award 1840 & 1839 TDE 134/1-2 Census 1841 XA 19/3 1851 XA 9/19 1861 XA 2/9 1871 XA 53/122 1881 XA 27/12 1891 XA 54/129 1901 XA 81/146-147 Poor rate 1719 SAS/WG 849 1817-1872 PAR 235/30/1-24 XA 30/99-100 (only to 1835) Valuation list 1863-1871 PAR 235/38/2/1-9 1911 IRV 1/4 1929-1934 DL/C 89/1 Battle Adds areas from Mountfield and Westfield, and loses areas to Sedlescombe, Westfield and Whatlington, 1958.