Genealogy Chat

Thanks Peter.
Have answered your pm.
Marion

Thanks - iy occurred to me in th enight that the Civil War may have something to do with it - timing is right....

Who are the ones you cant find, Marion, I have several odd sources I can look at.

Peter

I have ancestors from Old Swinford too & have found that they moved around the villages in the Stourbridge area such as Lye, Pedmore, Claines etc.
A good roadmap with the villages on it is invaluable.
if its any consolation I cant find any of mine before about 1740.
Marion

Not necessarily. There were exemptions from the Hearth Tax - if your ancestors were wealthy enough to have tenants who paid the tax or if they were so poor they weren't worth taxing!!

I found the above in an excellent article in Wikipedia.

I am researching a branch of the Moseley family in Oldswinford Worcs. I ave them back to the late 1600's. Key names are Humphrey and Richard.

I ave found a transcript of the 1666 Hearth tax for Lye, Oldswinford and Stourbridge - no Moseley's appear on it.

Is it therefore safe to assume that they arrived in Oldswinford after that?


There are baptisms 1602-1613 and then again from 1678 onwards - does this mean that they had moved out of the village and then trickled back?
(If anyone can tell me when and where from I'll go and have a party!!!)

Peter