| Description | Stent Rolls are assessments of the value of properties within burghs and were the basis on which taxation was levied. Stent Rolls usually list the owners of properties, and the amount of tax payable, but they do not pinpoint the whereabouts of properties beyond location in one of the four Quarters of the burgh: the Footdee, Green, Crooked and Even Quarters.
The earliest surviving Stent Rolls for Aberdeen in the City Archives date from the 1590s; later Stent Rolls survive for the seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries.
Only three of the stent rolls are currently included in the catalogue:
CA/18/3/1 1604 Stent Roll
CA/18/3/2 1655 Stent Roll
CA/18/3/3 1712 Stent Roll
One Stent Roll has been published: the 1608 Stent Roll is included as an Appendix to Volume 1 of Aberdeen Council Letters (ed. Louise B. Taylor, Oxford University Press, 1942).
The 1669 Stent Roll has been indexed by the Aberdeen and North East Family History Society, and this index is available on their website: https://www.anesfhs.org.uk/databanks/tax-and-other-lists/stent1669
Aberdeen University's Special Collections Centre also holds a stent roll for Aberdeen Burgh for 1748/9 (reference MS 57) |