man 41 Hearth Tax Stoke-upon-Trent 1662, 1666, 1672

Currently there is only one Hearth Tax record for Stoke upon Trent published in the Staffordshire Historical Collections.
Hearth Tax records can be an important tool for the historian as the number of hearths are listed, in some case some marked blocked up to save paying part of the tax.
It is used to assess the size of the property and in doing so determine the wealth of the owner helping to create a more detailed framework of the area under study.

Whilst doing my M.Phil at University of Keele I managed to locate a private searcher who during the war worked at the then Public Record Office who know the location of other returns. She subsequently copied these for me and listed here.
The important thing with three the names of property can change but with the same surname suggesting the father had died and now it was the son now living there.