Women and Property 1784-1790: North Riding Register of Deeds

This Collection contains various datasets and analysis tools, compiled from the Register of Deeds for the North Riding of Yorkshire and relating to women's involvement with property transfer and the wider property market during the period 1784-1790.

Index Ledger Vol 9, 1784-1790, was transcribed in full and contains 6,868 unique transactions (31,966 lines). Each line represents a person's name.

Core data from the Index showed: Township, unique reference and names of parties, but did not show date of transaction or the names of all parties. To analyse by gender this information was required, so this information was added by using the Deeds Registers.

Further information was then added to the core datasets, again from the individual Deeds Registers :
- gender of all parties ('male', 'female' and 'not applicable' (for businesses)
- usual residence, occupation (if any), marital status and any details of family relationships or inheritance rights of every women transacting.

An overview spreadsheet showing the analysis carried out is contained in this Collection.

A subset of this material was created covering period 1785-1789 ONLY to provide a direct comparison with similarly sourced data from period 1885-1889. This material is held in a separate Collection - Women and Property 1785-1789: North Riding Register of Deeds - and is accessible for research purposes.

Findings from the comparative study have been published:

Heggie, J. K. F. (2019). Women's Involvement in Property in the North Riding of Yorkshire in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. In A. L. Capern, B. McDonagh, & J. Aston (Eds.), Women and the Land, 1500-1900 (pp. 201-225). The Boydell Press.

本合集收录了各类数据集与分析工具，其数据源自约克郡北区（North Riding of Yorkshire）土地登记册（Register of Deeds），聚焦1784年至1790年间女性参与房产交易及广泛房地产市场的相关活动。

《索引账簿第9卷（1784-1790）》已完成全量转录，内含6868笔独立交易记录（共计31966行），每一行对应一位当事人姓名。

该索引的核心数据包含乡镇信息、唯一参考编号及当事人姓名，但未记录交易日期与全部当事人姓名。若需按性别维度开展分析，需补充此类信息，因此研究人员通过查阅土地登记册补充了相关内容。

研究人员进一步从单份土地登记册中为核心数据集补充了以下信息：
- 所有当事人的性别（分为"男性""女性"及"企业主体不适用"）
- 每位参与交易的女性的常住地址、职业（若有）、婚姻状况，以及所有涉及的家庭关系或继承权细节。

本合集中还包含一份展示本次分析成果的概览电子表格。

为便于与1885-1889年同源数据集开展直接对比，研究人员提取了仅涵盖1785-1789年的子集数据。该子集数据已收录于独立合集《Women and Property 1785-1789: North Riding Register of Deeds》，可供学术研究使用。

本比较研究的成果已正式发表：
Heggie, J. K. F.（2019）.《约克郡北区女性在18至19世纪的房产参与情况》（Women's Involvement in Property in the North Riding of Yorkshire in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries），收录于A. L. 卡彭、B. 麦克多纳、J. 阿斯顿主编的《Women and the Land, 1500-1900》（第201-225页），博伊德尔出版社（The Boydell Press）出版。