Valuation Office Survey – Name Index

An index to the land owners and occupiers named in the Valuation Officer Survey Valuation Book and Field Books, with links to the Field Book abstracts in which they are named, and brief details of the property they owned and/or occupied.

Surnames: A to B | C to F | G to J | L to O | P to S | T to Y

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Surnames A to B

Allen, Richard: 568 (includes 569) (house, buildings, garden, orchard, land – owner-occupier); 570 (land – owner)

Atcherley, William: 605 (cottage, garden – occupier, replaced J T Buttery)

Austin, Edward John: 585 (cottage, garden – occupier)

Austin, Sarah (Miss): 613 (cottage, garden – occupier)

Ball, Wm A R: 636 (house, garden – owner-occupier)

Beach / Beech, William: 614 (cottage, garden – occupier)

Benit [= Bennett], Samuel [same as S T Bennett below?]: 628 (land – occupier, replaced J Shakeshaft?)

Bennett, S T: 571 (cottage, buildings, garden – owner-occupier)

Bennett, Thomas: 617 (cottage, garden – occupier)

Boulton, A & Co, Messrs / Adam: 592 (warehouse – occupier); 602 (house, buildings – owner)

Brookes, Fanny: 632 (house, buildings, land – owner)

Brooks / Brookes, John: 601 (house, buildings, land – occupier)

Brown, Hannah: 616 (cottage, garden – occupier)

Buttery, J T: 605 (cottage, garden – occupier, replaced by William Atcherley)

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Surnames C to F

Cartwright, Albert: 619 (cottage, garden – occupier)

Cartwright, Josiah [= Joshua]: 607 (cottage, garden – occupier)

Cartwright, M (Mrs): 578 (house, buildings, garden – occupier)

Crowther, Wm: 581 (house, buildings, land – occupier)

Davies, E R: 588 (land – owner); 606 (land [allotments] – owner)

Davies, S A: 576 (house, buildings, land – owner); 577 (land – owner); 578 (house, buildings, garden – owner); 579 (house, buildings, garden – owner); 580 (land – owner); 621 (house, garden – occupier); 638 (house, buildings, land – owner); 639 (included in 577) (land – owner); 641 (included in 577) (land – owner) [add landowner from 638]; possibly 573 (type of property unknown – owner more likely Ernest J Fisk)

Davies, Sarah (Mrs) [not S A Davies above): 640 (included in 389 in Bolas Magna parish) (land – owner)

Davies, Wm: 581 (house, buildings, land – owner)

Evans, James: 623 (included in 620) (cottage, garden – occupier)

Evans, Samuel: 603 (“garden land” [allotments?] – occupier, with others); 608 (house, buildings – occupier)

Ferrington, John: 579 (house, buildings, garden – occupier); 606 (land [allotments] – occupier, with others)

Fisk, Ernest J: 574 (land – occupier); 631 (includes 633 and 573) (house, buildings, land – owner-occupier; cottage – owner); 633 (included in 631) (cottage, garden – owner)

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Surnames G to J

George, Charles: 589 (cottage, garden – occupier)

Hobson, Samuel (Rev): 572 (house, buildings, garden, land – owner-occupier); 574 (land – owner); 575 (land – owner); 587 (cottage, garden – owner); 589 (cottage, garden – owner); 634 (land – owner-occupier); also, as a Charity Trustee, 734 (school, playground – owner as a charity trustee; the occupiers were managers of the school)

Homer, Wm Henry: 607 (cottage, garden – owner)

Hoole, S J: 632 (house, buildings, land – occupier, replaced by Ernest D Rider)

Humphreys, Walter: 608 (house, buildings – owner); 609 (house, post office, buildings, garden – owner)

James, Ann (Mrs): 565 (includes 583) (house, buildings, land – owner-occupier); 577 (land – occupier); 627 (land – occupier); 639 (included in 577) (land – owner); 641 (included in 577) (land – occupier)

James, Charles: 618 (cottage, garden – occupier); possibly 606 (land [allotments] – occupier, with others, or maybe the James in question was Joseph James, below)

James, Joseph: 603 (“garden land” [allotments?] – occupier, with others); possibly 606 (land [allotments] – occupier, with others, or maybe the James in question was Charles James, above)

Jerman, Wm: 635 (land – owner’s agent)

Jervis [‘Jarvis’ in Valuation Book], Wm: 575 (land – occupier, replaced by Albert Thomlinson); 638 (house, buildings, land – occupier, replaced by Albert Thomlinson)

Jones, John: 622 (included in 620) (cottage, garden – occupier)

Juckes, A Lea: 620 (includes 595, 622, 623) (house, grounds, buildings – owner-occupier; two cottages – owner)

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Surnames L to O

Lewis, John: 600 (cottage, buildings, garden – owner, replaced J Matthews)

Lewis, Wm: 573 (included in 631) (type of property unknown – occupier)

Lineton, Stephen: 567 (cottage, land – owner)

Madeley, Richard: 586 (cottage, garden – occupier)

Masefield, Fanny: 604 (land – owner); 605 (cottage, garden – owner)

Matthews, Elizabeth [same as Mrs Matthews below?]: 603 (“garden land” [allotments?] – owner); 615 (cottage, garden – occupier)

Matthews, J: 600 (cottage, buildings, garden – occupier, replaced by John Lewis)

Matthews, Mrs: 580 (land – occupier)

Matthews, William: 587 (cottage, garden – occupier); 588 (land – occupier)

Morgan, John Stanley: 570 (land – occupier); 610 (house, buildings, land – owner-occupier); possibly 611 (house, buildings, land – owner?)

Morgan, Robert Blantern: 611 (house, buildings, land – occupier); 612 (plantation – owner-occupier) [but note “see 610”]; 635 (land – occupier)

Morgan, William: 613 (includes 614, 615) (cottage, garden – owner)

Owen, Elizabeth (Mrs): 590 (includes 591) (public house, garden, land – occupier); 616, 617, 618 and 619 (terrace of four cottages with gardens – owner)

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Surnames P to S

Paddock, Geo Harrie [= Harry]: 590 (includes 591) (public house, garden, land – owner); 592 (warehouse – owner)

Palmer, Wm: 635 (land – occupier, replaced by Robert Blantern Morgan)

Parry, E L: 609 (house, post office, buildings, garden – occupier)

Peacock, Thos: 599 (house, buildings, garden – occupier)

Phillip / Phillips, B T: 640 (included in 389 in Bolas Magna parish) (land – occupier)

Price, W H: 582 (includes 584) (house, buildings, land – occupier)

Richards, John Francis: 567 (cottage, land – occupier)

Rider, Ernest D: 632 (house, buildings, land – occupier, replaced S J Hoole)

Ridgway, Alfred: 624 (cottage, wheelwright’s shop, buildings, garden – owner-occupier)

Ridgway, John Chas: 625 (house, smithy, garden – owner-occupier)

Shakeshaft, J [same as Joseph below?]: 628 (land – occupier, replaced by Samuel Bennett?); 630 (included in 768, Ercall Magna parish) (land – occupier)

Shakeshaft, Joseph Walter: 566 (land – owner)

Shakeshaft, Robert: 566 (land – occupier); 602 (house, buildings – occupier)

Southam, W T: 582 (includes 584) (house, buildings, land – owner)

Sutherland, Duke of: 627 (land – owner); 628 (land – owner); 629 (cottage, garden – owner); 630 (included in 768, Ercall Magna parish) (land – owner)

Swift, John: 633 (included in 631) (cottage, garden – occupier)

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Surnames T to Y

Tomlinson [= Thomlinson], Albert: 575 (land – occupier, replaced William Jervis); 638 (house, buildings, land – occupier, replaced William Jervis)

Walker, S A: 626 (house, garden)

Woolley, Samuel: 629 (cottage, garden – occupier)

Woolley, William: 576 (house, buildings, land – occupier); 604 (land – occupier)

Wright, Ann (Mrs): 585 (cottage, garden – owner); 586 (cottage, garden – owner)

Yonge, Elizabeth May Hombersley (Mrs): 593 (includes 594, 596, 597, 598, 599, 637 and – outside Waters Upton – 735) (house, buildings, gardens, cottages – owner, and occupier of all but 599 and 637); 600 (cottage, buildings, garden – owner); 601 (house, buildings, land – owner); 642 (included in 593) (land – owner-occupier)

Yonge, L V (Rev): 637 (land – occupier)

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