The Worcestershire, England, Land Tax, 1781-1945 collection is now available online at Ancestry, indexing and linking images of the original registers held by the Worcestershire Archive and Archaeological Service.
For each entry, expect to find:
- Owner name
- Occupier name
- Hamlet
- Parish
- City
- County
- Tax date
Each page of the tax registers lists multiple landowners and occupiers together, drawn from the original records. The record images may have detail such as a property description and street address, its value and acreage, the number of buildings or machinery on site, fruit trees and timber, and the value of the surrounding agricultural land.
I’ll be looking at these records more closely, particularly the 70 Allcroft entries. The 1820s to 1830s have a concentration of records, dominated by Jeremiah and multiple unspecified “Allcroft” entries. His second wife was my distant relative. The late 1700s to early 1800s have a concentration of entries for John/Jno and basic “Allcroft” listings. John was Jeremiah’s father.