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The survey is not entirely complete and lacks coverage in the City of London and some other major towns as well as the counties of Cumberland, Durham, Northumberland and Westmorland. Some other counties are incomplete. The many problems of the survey’s interpretation are discussed in David Roffe, ''Domesday: the inquest and the book'' (2000). | The survey is not entirely complete and lacks coverage in the City of London and some other major towns as well as the counties of Cumberland, Durham, Northumberland and Westmorland. Some other counties are incomplete. The many problems of the survey’s interpretation are discussed in David Roffe, ''Domesday: the inquest and the book'' (2000). | ||
The text of Domesday in its abbreviated Latin and a translation were printed in county volumes edited by John Morris as ''Domesday Book'' (38 volumes, Chichester, England: Phillimore, 1975-86) [{{FHL|13655}} book 942 R2d]; there are complete indexes of places in volume 36, of persons in volume 37 and subjects in volume 38. An online transcription is available at [http://domesdaybook.co.uk Domesday Book]. The personal names are indexed in K.S.B. Keats-Rohan and David E. Thornton, ''Domesday names: an index of Latin personal and place names in Domesday Book'' (Woodbridge, England: Boydell Press, 1997) [not in FHL] and there is a careful commentary on what is known about the people involved and their subsequent histories in K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, ''Domesday people: a prosopography of persons occurring in English documents 1066-1166'' (Woodbridge, England: Boydell Press, 1999) [ | The text of Domesday in its abbreviated Latin and a translation were printed in county volumes edited by John Morris as ''Domesday Book'' (38 volumes, Chichester, England: Phillimore, 1975-86) [{{FHL|13655}} book 942 R2d]; there are complete indexes of places in volume 36, of persons in volume 37 and subjects in volume 38. An online transcription is available at [http://domesdaybook.co.uk Domesday Book]. The personal names are indexed in K.S.B. Keats-Rohan and David E. Thornton, ''Domesday names: an index of Latin personal and place names in Domesday Book'' (Woodbridge, England: Boydell Press, 1997) [not in FHL] and there is a careful commentary on what is known about the people involved and their subsequent histories in K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, ''Domesday people: a prosopography of persons occurring in English documents 1066-1166'' (Woodbridge, England: Boydell Press, 1999) [FS Library book 942 H2] and''Domesday people: II, Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum'' (Woodbridge, England: Boydell Press, 2002) [FS Library book 942 D3]. | ||
== Record Indexes and Transcripts 1090-1600 == | == Record Indexes and Transcripts 1090-1600 == | ||
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=== Rentals and labour books === | === Rentals and labour books === | ||
On the larger estates with good records the rentals, when used alongside the estate labour books, are a rich source of information about employees. Shane Beaver provides a good example from the records of the Marquis of Salisbury’s estate at Hatfield [''Hertfordshire People'', no. 64 (March 1998) page 13; | On the larger estates with good records the rentals, when used alongside the estate labour books, are a rich source of information about employees. Shane Beaver provides a good example from the records of the Marquis of Salisbury’s estate at Hatfield [''Hertfordshire People'', no. 64 (March 1998) page 13; FS Library book 942.58 D25h] where Richard Oakley, a labourer, did hedging and ditching. Richard Oakley started by renting a house from Charles Kidman, who farmed Suttons Farm and was a tenant of the Marquis. As a sub-tenant Richard Oakley does not himself appear in the records (a standard problem with sub-tenants on estates and manors), but when Charles Kidman gave up the farm in 1881, Richard Oakley became a tenant of the Marquis and appears in the estate book. His wife and children appear in the labour book doing ‘twitching’ (weeding) at 2s 6d a day. The books show how, on becoming a parkman in 1894, he moved to one of the park lodges, and later, on retirement, to one of the estate’s cottages in Hatfield New Town. | ||
=== Sales and advertisements === | === Sales and advertisements === | ||
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Many estate and family papers contain printed advertising material about properties which have been sold in the past and many advertisements about farms in particular have appeared in local newspapers. These may relate to sale, at the end of a tenancy, of farm equipment (both for cultivation and the making of cheese) and of livestock, showing their numbers and breed. | Many estate and family papers contain printed advertising material about properties which have been sold in the past and many advertisements about farms in particular have appeared in local newspapers. These may relate to sale, at the end of a tenancy, of farm equipment (both for cultivation and the making of cheese) and of livestock, showing their numbers and breed. | ||
An article in ''The Local Historian ''(vol. 28, no. 1, February 1998, pages 36-49) [ | An article in ''The Local Historian ''(vol. 28, no. 1, February 1998, pages 36-49) [FS Library book 942 B2ah] analysed the advertisements in the ''Derby Mercury'' from their first appearance in the 1780s. There were about 4,000 in seventy years. Small family-operated tenant farms of less than fifty acres were a characteristic of that county but it would be worth looking for a notice about a sale of stock whenever a tenant-farming ancestor dies. | ||
== [[England Land and Property, Part 2|England Land and Property, Part 2]] == | == [[England Land and Property, Part 2|England Land and Property, Part 2]] == | ||
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