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Abstract from the Overseers Poor Rates and Tithes accounts for the parish of Winkfield, Berkshire (Reference Overseers Poor Rates and Tithes   D/P 151/11/x 2 - 1784 – 1800 at Reading Record Office).

Because Winkfield was a very large parish it was split into two sections for administrative purposes, namely the Winkfield side of the Parish and the Ascot side of the Parish.

Israel Adams appears on the Ascot side of the Parish of Winkfield. In summary the accounts show the following details.

Wording such as 'For late Adams' was commonly used in the Poor Rate Accounts.  It was used to signify a property that was no longer being rented out, but for which rates were still payable.  This suggests that Israel Adams was renting a property in the early part of 1784, but was no longer there during the second assessment in August of that year.

Presumably the owner did not manage to rent out the property to anyone else, and was now having to pay the Poor Rate required for that empty property.  Alternatively, he might have been using the property himself, or maybe renting it out on a short term basis and putting himself down as the person to pay the rates. 

This continued until 1786, when Israel re-occupies a smaller portion of the property with a rateable value of only £6, the owner being responsible for the remaining £24 of rateable value. This suggests that Israel Adams is now occupying a portion of the property that he rented a few years earlier.  This situation continues until February 1788 when the Rates Book has the following entry.

Israel is no longer present and the land he occupied has now been added to make the ‘Late Adams’ land back to a rateable value of £30.

Later entries in the Rate Book suggests that this property was at Hatchet Lane or Temple Hill.

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