Land Tax Assessment 1793-1833

LAND TAX ASSESSMENT BOOKS

Hanworth and Hampton

K.Cox 2018

The Land Tax recorssds were researched to confirm the owners and occupiers of Hanworth Park House [HPH], Forest Road, TW13 7EY, during the above dates. Where were the Dukes living after the destruction of Hanworth Manor house and before HPH was built and when did James Ramsey Cuthbert become the owner? Update Jan 2020: see John Bradley's page: When was HPH built?

The earlier date of 1793 was chosen as being some time before the Manor House burnt down and the later date was chosen as Hanworth Park had by then, passed from James Ramsey Cuthbert to then to Frederick Cuthbert then to Henry Perkins. Hanworth Park House is often referred to in documents as Hanworth Park.

1815, Louisa, Duchess of St Albans, received lands in Hanworth, Feltham, Heston and Isleworth from a bequest in her husband’s will, the 6^th Duke of St Albans. The 6^th Duke was unaware of the pregnancy of his wife and therefore made no mention of the 7^th Duke in his will. Louisa and the 7^th Duke both died on 19^th February, 1816 thereby the Manor of Hanworth was no longer part of the Beauclerk family estates, as Louisa had left her estate to her sister Laura Dalrymple. [Did Laura Dalrymple live in Hanworth Park House/Hanworth Lodge/ Hanworth Farm or Hanworth House – the information is only necessary in relation to HPH history, eg who lived in HPH – though it is interesting from a local history perspective.]

Where the proprietor was also the occupant, it is noted in the records as ‘himself’ or ‘herself’. Where the proprietor has leased\rented their property the name\s of the lessee\renter is noted in the records as occupant.

The Land Tax records for Hanworth and Hampton do not include names or addresses for particular properties. They are, though, revealed through leases, releases, trusts, assignments, wills and fire insurances etc., many of which are held at the London Metropolitan Archives.

The information from the Land Tax records is transcribed below, and although answering some questions more arose, which could\would be answered by an expert in Land Tax records and of those records mentioned above.

Hampton

1793-1816 5^th and 6^th Dukes of St Albans - proprietor - occupier: himself.

Hanworth

1793-1802 5^th Duke of St Albans -proprietor and various occupiers.

1802-1808 6^th Duke of St Albans - proprietor - occupier: Edward Russell Howe.

1810-1811 6^th Duke of St Albans - proprietor - occupier: Cuthbert, Howe.

1812 6^th Duke of St Albans -proprietor – occupier: various.

1812-1825 Cuthbert – proprietor – occupier: himself 1814-16; James King 1818-1822; S. Maine 1825-1833.

1816-1820 Mrs Dalrymple – proprietor-occupier: herself (see endnote).

1822-1833 Lady Tollemache – proprietor-occupier: herself (see endnote).

[i] Shows ‘land only’ in the Land Tax record – does not show the Duke’s home.

Records searched at ancestry.co.uk – apologies for not including the source document refs.

[ii] 1802 Death of Aubrey 5th Duke of St Albans.

[iii] 1815 Death of Aubrey, the 6th Duke of St Albans.

[iv] 1816 Death of Aubrey 7th Duke of St Albans plus his mother Louisa, Duchess of St Albans.

[v] Listed in the record as Mrs Duirimpel

Mrs Dalrymple – became Tollemache after her marriage was annulled:

Lady Laura Manners Tollemache (died 11 July 1834), married on 2 June 1808 as Miss Laura Manners, John William Henry Dalrymple, later 7th Earl of Stair (1784– 1840), divorced July 1811.

The divorce, or rather nullification of her marriage, took place because of Dalrymple's previous contract in 1804, with Johanna, daughter of Charles Gordon of Cluny, which he had chosen to ignore or consider invalid. This marriage was famously upheld by Sir William Scott in Dalrymple v. Dalrymple (July 1811) putting Miss Manners into a difficult position (she was neither widow nor wife nor divorced wife; she had lived effectively without wedlock with a married man). The 1804 marriage though deemed a valid marriage by the laws of Scotland, was annulled by the Court of Session, in June 1820 for reasons unknown. Laura Manners and her mother assumed the surname and arms of the ancient house of Tollemache, which her mother was the last representative. (In 1821 presumably after their mother became Countess of Dysart, her brothers John and Charles assumed the name by a similar licenses). The 7th Earl of Stair, who succeeded his cousin in 1821, did not remarry after the annulment of his first marriage; Lady Laura Tollemache also did not remarry.

Darrin Lythgoe, www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info, Laura Manners-Tollemache Link [15Nov2018].

Duchess of St Albans – wife of 6^th Duke of St Albans

to Laura Dalyrymple/Tollemache,

to Maria Tollemache

to Perkins Family

1) Louisa Tollemache, became Countess Dysart. 02Jul1745-22Sep1840. Married – John Manners, MP.Mother of (2 and 3), grandmother of (4).

2) Louisa Grace Manners, became Duchess of St Albans, wife of the 6^th Duke of St Albans. 04Dec1777-19Feb1816. Married Aubrey Beauclerk, Sixth Duke of St Albans. Sister of (3).

3) Laura Manners, became Laura Dalrymple on her marriage. 26Mar1870 - 11Jul1834. Married John Henry William Dalrymple – marriage annulled – and then she took the name of Tollemache. Inherited Hanworth from her sister (2) She was also aunt of (4).

4) Maria Elizabeth Manners Tollemache, became Marchioness of Ailesbury. 27Oct1809-07May1893. Married Charles Brudenell-Bruce. Inherited Hanworth from (3) and her grandmother (1) was to live in Hanworth until her death: 1840.

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Louisa (2), widow of the Sixth Duke of St Albans and inheritor of his Hanworth estates, died in 1816.

In her will, she left her Hanworth estates to her son, the Seventh Duke of St Albans, and if he did not have children the estates were to pass to her sister Laura (3).

The Seventh Duke was born in 1815 and he died in 1816, therefore the estates passed to Laura (3)

Laura Tollemache(3) died in 1834, in her will she left her Hanworth estates to her brother’s daughter, Maria (4), with the provision that her mother Louisa Dysart (1) should enjoy it for life.

Louisa Dysart (1) died in 1840 at the age of 95.

Maria (4) having outlived her two aunts (2 and 3) and her grandmother (1) sold her Hanworth estates , in 1840, to Henry Perkins. [See Henry Perkins – Henry was already at Hanworth Park House.]

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D. Adamson and P. Beauclerk Dewar, ‘The House of Nell Gwynn 1670-1974’, (London, William Kimber & Co., 1974).