Urney Parish, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland Poll Money Book 1660

Fragment of Poll Money Book of the Parish of Urney that lyeth in the Barony of Strabane, Co. Tyrone
Extracted from FHL Film #1279356; Item 18
Filmed from the collection deposited in the Armagh County Museum

Transcribed, compiled and submitted by Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia
len_swindley[at]hotmail.com

 

 

Few parishes in Ulster have surviving Poll Books and all are within Co. Tyrone: the calculation of the tax was;

a gentleman - 4 shillings

a yeoman (farmer) - 2 shillings

a servant (labourer) - one shilling

(the amount was doubled if married)

 

TOWNLANDS	MEN & WOMEN’S NAMES	QUALIFICATION	£ s d
BALLYFATTEN	HAMILTONE Wm. & his wife	gent	8 shillings
...	FORSAITH John & his wife	servant	2 shillings
...	O’DEVILLIN Phelemy	servant	1 shilling
...	ny QUIN Isobel	servant	1 shilling
...	O’CRAMSIE Edmond	labourer	1 shilling
GALLANAGH	LAW Willm	yeoman	4 shillings
...	ORR John & BOYLE Jennet	servants	2 shillings
...	McGLENNYE James	servant	2 shillings
...	McANDREW Thomas	labourer	1 shilling
...	KELSOE Hough & his wife	yeoman	4 shillings
...	KELSOE John	servant	1 shilling
GLEBE	HOUSTON Finley & his wife	yeoman	4 shillings
...	Hugh the Heard & his wife	yeoman	4 shillings
...	WALLACE John & his wife	yeoman	4 shillings
...	MONTGOMERY Robert	labourer	1 shilling
...	RODGER Alex. & his wife	labourer	2 shillings
...	McFADDIN Cor’s.	servant	1 shilling
...	STEVENSON William & his wife	yeoman	4 shillings
...	STEVENSON John	servant	1 shilling
SHEANE	MENTEITH James & his wife	yeoman	4 shillings
...	O’HERDIGAN Brian	servant	1 shilling
...	STEVENSON Robert & his wife	yeoman	4 shillings
...	BURNS William & his wife	labourer	2 shillings
...	WOODS William	labourer	2 shillings
...	GRAY Henry & his wife	labourer	2 shillings
...	McCAWLEY Walter	yeoman	2 shillings
...	PATERSON Robert	labourer	1 shilling
...	FULTONE William & his wife	yeoman	4 shillings
...	CHISHOLM Thomas & his wife	labourer	2 shillings
...	FULTONE Jannet	servant	1 shilling
...	McILL Walter Boy& his wife	yeoman	4 shillings
...	O’DAVIN Patrick & his wife	labourer	2 shillings
...	O’MURKIE Mell & his wife	labourer	2 shillings
...	O’MURKIE Donnell & his wife	yeoman	4 shillings
...	ULTAGH Donaghie & his wife	labourer	2 shillings
GORTLOGHER & TULLYNEHUSKER	McCROSSAN Donaghy & his wife	yeoman	4 shillings
...	McCROSSAN Edmund & his wife	yeoman	4 shillings
...	McCROSSAN Manus & his wife	labourer	2 shillings
....	McNALLY Patrick & his wife	servant	2 shillings
...	O’CARROLAN Donnah & his wife	labourer	2 shillings
...	O’DEVAN Thurlagh & his wife	servant	2 shillings
...	O’MALLAN Owen & his wife	servant	2 shillings
...	SIMPSONE Michall & his wife	yeoman	4 shillings
...	SWAN John & his wife	yeoman	4 shillings
BALLYMACKIER	SMITH John & his wife	labourer	2 shillings
...	JACKSONE Allen	servant	1 shilling
...	McSWIN Donaghie & his wife	servant	2 shillings
...	McSWIN Mulmory & his wife	servant	2 shillings
...	O’BOGGAN Donnell & his wife	labourer	2 shillings
...	O’BOYELL Donaghie & his wife	labourer	2 shillings
...	JOHNSTON George & his wife	labourer	2 shillings
...	HASTIE Rodger & his wife	labourer	2 shillings
...	O’RUSH Shan & his wife	labourer	2 shillings
...	BURRAL Robert & his wife	yeoman	4 shillings
...	McDAVETT Edmond	servant	1 shilling
...	PARK Joseph & his wife	sould: servant	2 shillings
...	THOMSON Gabriel & his wife	yeoman	4 shillings
...	SOMERVALL John & his wife	labourer	2 shillings
...	BOGLE John	servant	1 shilling
...	KENY James & his wife	yeoman	4 shillings
...	JOHNSTON Gilbert & his wife	labourer	2 shillings
...	JOHNSTON Wllm	labourer	1 shilling
...	O’HUGH Pat	servant	1 shilling
...	KILL Laurence and his wife	yeoman	4 shillings
...	TEMPLETON Archabald & his wife	labourer	2 shillings
...	CLARKE Thomas & his wife	yeoman	4 shillings
URNEY	SPIER John & his wife	labourer	2 shillings
...	McFADDEN Donell	servant	1 shilling
...	CRAWFORD John & his wife	labourer	2 shillings
...	FINSTON Manus & his wife	yeoman	4 shillings
CARKLIE [CARRICKLEE]	HAMILTONE Elizabeth & widow	labourer	1 shilling
...	KNOX Wm	labourer	1 shilling
...	TEMPLETON John & his wife	yeoman	4 shillings
...	HOUSTON Robert & his wife	yeoman	4 shillings
...	SHEALS Mathew & his wife	labourer	2 shillings
...	SHEELS Matthew	labourer	1 shilling
...	THOMPSON John	labourer	2 shillings
...	CALDWALL Wm & his wife	labourer	2 shillings
...	FLEMING James and his wife	yeoman	4 shillings
...	HOSEWELL John	servant	1 shilling
...	FLEMING Wm & his wife	labourer	2 shillings
BALLICULMAN [BALLYCOLMAN]	WALLACE James & his wife	labourer	2 shillings
...	SMITH Adam & his wife	yeoman	4 shillings
...	SMITH Wm	servant	1 shilling
...	PATERSON Wm & his wife	labourer	2 shillings
...	PATERSON James & his wife	labourer	2 shillings
...	CHISHOLM George & his wife	yeoman	4 shillings
...	O’HONY Brian	servant	1 shilling
...	FLEMING Patrick & his wife	labourer	2 shillings

 

Signed: Will. MOORE, Wm. RICHARDSON, Tho. GOLBORNE

NOTE: The Poll Tax Lists for Urney & Donaghedy parishes are undated & were preserved in Record Office, Dublin in Collectors Accounts for 1693 in 6E-3-13, but relate to Poll Tax of 1660 levied under Acts of the Convention dated 24April & 1 March 1660

 

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