PORTER GENEALOGY and HISTORY: A Journey of Generations

INFORMATION

The Porter families covered in this blog are focussed in the Parishes of Standish, Croston, Leyland in Lancashire and Slaidburn, Whitewell (Whalley) in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and environs. The families researched covered the period 1565 to 1800. More parishes will be added to the blog with information and names will be included in Porter Name Database (see link in right hand column) with sources.

Anyone wishing to contribute to this database please provide names and sources. Only sourced information will be added. Contact me at the email listed above.

The following is a list of families that are associated with the Porter Families of Lancashire, Yorkshire and Canada:

Booth, Baldwin, Brinand/Brennand, Catrowe, Device/Deves/Davie/Davies (Pendleton), Hill, Holgate, Kendal, Langton/Longton, Laycock, Lightbound/Lightbourn/Lighbourne/Lightbown/Lightbowne, Martin/MacMartin/Martinus, O'Neill/McNeill, Pomfret, Rhodes, Robinson, Sellers/Sellars, Steele, Waddington.

Master tree (Family ad Infinitum) which includes all families, is available by invitation. This tree contains over 10,000 entries, sources, photos, documents, etc. If you are related to any of these families and wish to have access, grateful you provide your connection and I will invite you to the tree.

Sunday, May 14, 2017

TENANT RECORDS

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Thomas Porter (1759) - Tenant Records

About 1795 Thomas and Alice (Longton) Porter moved their family from Ulnes Walton, LAN to the Forest-of-Bowland area in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Using Parish Records and inference, Thomas was a tenant on the Estate of the Duke of Buccleuch/Queensbury, and the Right Honourable, Earl of Beaulieu. The following information is from the 1802 - 1829 Land Tax Assessment for the Township of the Forest of Bowland (The assessment amounts are written in English pounds, shillings, and pence.) It is surmised that the farm Thomas Porter occupied was the New Hey Farm, N.W. of Whitewell, West Riding, Yorkshire. It appears his son, Thomas ,took over the lease and remained on the land for many years.

1802 tenant Thomas Porter Assessment: 2.18.2

1803 tenant Thomas Porter 2.18.2

Assessors: Thomas Porter, William Brimand

Collectors: Thomas Porter, William Brimand

Confirmed by - the 30th day of May, 1804

1805 tenant Thomas Porter 2.18.2

1807 tenant Thomas Porter 2.18.2

1808 tenant Thomas Porter 2.18.2

Land tax assessment for the Township of Slaidburn 1810/11, Lower Division, Forest of Bowland

Estate of the Dowager Duchess of Buccleugh/Queensbury

1810/11 tenant Thomas Porter 2.18.2

1814 tenant Thomas Porter 2.18.2

1815/16 tenant Thomas Porter 2.18.2

1817 tenant Thomas Porter 2.13

1818 tenant Thomas Porter 2.13.2

1819 tenant Thomas Porter 2.13.2

1820 tenant Thomas Porter 2.13.2

1821 tenant Thomas Porter 2.13.2

1822 tenant Thomas Porter 2.13.2

1823 tenant Thomas Porter 2.13.2

1824 tenant Thomas Porter 2.13.2

1825 tenant Thomas Porter 2.13.2

1827 tenant Thomas Porter 2.13.2

1829 tenant Thomas Porter 2.13.2**

** This is likely Thomas Porter Jr (1789). His father, Thomas Porter (1759) died in 1828. No rents recorded for 1828, likely due to the probate and transfer to his son.