Day: December 26, 2021

Thomas Hawkesworth, taxes, and the Irish Famine

On the 26th December 1846 notice was sent from the Commissioners for General Purposes Act -Dorchester to one Thomas Hawkesworth Esquire of Melcombe Regis. The document was a tax assessment due for the year ending April 5th 1847 to the sum of £34.11.00, duty payable £1.0.1 for sums to be paid for profits on property. An… Read more Thomas Hawkesworth, taxes, and the Irish Famine