Women and Property 1785-1789 All Female Transactions: North Riding Register of Deeds

Research hypothesis was to use the Registers of Deeds for the North Riding of Yorkshire (held at North Yorkshire County Record Office, Northallerton, England) to advance knowledge about women's involvement with property transfer and the wider property market in the 18th & 19th centuries. Registers began in 1736 and ceased in 1970; there are 89 Index Ledgers and 2,328 Deeds Registers. The system for recording data changed in 1885 so one Index Ledger was selected from pre/ post this date and 100 years apart to incorporate impact of Marriage Acts. Stage 1 - Two Index Ledgers were transcribed in full: 1) Index of Lands Vol 9 (1784-90) covers a seven-year period and contains 6,868 unique transactions (31,966 lines); and 2) Index of Lands 1885-1889 covers a five-year period and contains 14,481 unique transactions (52,741 lines). Each line represents a person's name. Core data from Index showed Township, unique reference and names of parties, but the 18th century Index Ledger did not show date of transaction or all parties. To analyse by gender this information was required so was added by using the Deeds Registers. Information from the individual Deeds Registers was then used to add to the core datasets: Stage 2 - The gender of all parties ('male', 'female' and 'not applicable' (for businesses) was added. Stage 3 - The usual residence, occupation (if any), marital status and any details of family relationships or inheritance rights of every women was added. Stage 4 - The 18th century dataset was then reduced to a five-year period covering 1785-1789 ONLY to provide a direct comparison with the 19th century dataset. Comparative analysis by: gender, marital status and number of transactions. Each transaction has a unique reference number but can contain multiple parties and cover more than one township. To identify the true number of transactions, the data had to be controlled for these factors. A control for uniqueness was also required for those individuals and organisations involved in multiple transactions and to avoid assuming that everyone with the same name was actually the same person. Where women were involved, additional data e.g. marital status, residence or family relationships was used to differentiate between like women. **Any transaction in 1784-1790 dataset that contained women ONLY and which had 2+ women named was manually extracted to a separate dataset. This was then revised to strip out transactions for 1784 & 1790, leaving transactions dated 1785-1789 only - REPRESENTED HERE. Excel and .csv versions provided.** ***This dataset does NOT include sole female transactions (mainly Wills - see separate dataset).***本研究的研究假设为，借助藏于英格兰北阿勒顿北约克郡郡档案办公室的北约克郡北部地产契据登记册（Registers of Deeds），拓宽学界对18至19世纪女性参与财产转让及广义房地产市场的认知。该登记册始于1736年，终止于1970年，共计包含89本索引账册（Index Ledgers）与2328份契据登记册（Deeds Registers）。1885年，数据记录体系发生变更，因此研究人员分别选取该时间节点前后且间隔百年的两本索引账册，以纳入《婚姻法（Marriage Acts）》的影响效应。 第一阶段：完成两本索引账册的全量转录工作：其一为《土地索引 第9卷（1784-1790年）》，涵盖7年时段，包含6868笔独立交易（共计31966条记录）；其二为《土地索引（1885-1889年）》，涵盖5年时段，包含14481笔独立交易（共计52741条记录）。每条记录对应一位当事人姓名。 索引账册的核心数据包含乡镇名称、唯一参考编号及当事人姓名，但18世纪的索引账册未记录交易日期及全部当事人信息。由于按性别开展分析需要此类信息，因此研究人员通过契据登记册补充了缺失内容。随后，研究人员借助单份契据登记册的信息对核心数据集进行分阶段补充： 第二阶段：为所有当事人补充性别标注，分为“男性”“女性”及“不适用”（针对企业主体）三类。 第三阶段：补充每位女性当事人的惯常居所、职业（若有）、婚姻状况，以及所有涉及的家庭亲属关系或继承权相关细节。 第四阶段：将18世纪的数据集仅限定为1785-1789年的五年时段，以与19世纪的数据集实现直接对标分析。 本次研究通过性别、婚姻状况及交易数量开展对比分析。每笔交易均配有唯一参考编号，但可包含多位当事人并涉及多个乡镇。为确定真实的交易笔数，需针对上述因素对数据进行去重校验。同时，对于参与多笔交易的个人及组织，也需进行唯一性校验，以避免将同名主体误判为同一对象。当涉及女性当事人时，需借助婚姻状况、居所或家庭亲属关系等额外信息，区分同名女性。 **仅包含女性当事人且涉及2名及以上女性的1784-1790年数据集交易，已被手动提取至独立数据集。随后对该独立数据集进行修订，剔除1784年与1790年的交易，仅保留1785-1789年的交易——本数据集即为此修订后的成果。本次提供Excel与.csv两种格式的版本。** ***本数据集未包含仅由女性单独参与的交易（此类交易多为遗嘱相关，详见独立数据集）。***